Sunday, July 01, 2007

Twin Fin Huerta (grom board)

This is "the midgets" favorite board. Its wide and paddles easily into waves. It also is designed to go super fast down the line. The speed and ease of paddle has 2 catches. One, its impossible for the midgets to duck-dive which makes it real hard to get out on big heavy current days. Two, it doesn't turn fast or smack the lip which is really important to them. Its small about 5' 19" 3".
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It was broken down seriously but we are in the process of rehabbing it. Tail had to be rebuilt, deck and underbelly were really pitted and dented. When the fin finally caved in I just grabbed the grinder and cut it down at the rails and ripped off the old glass. I pinched the rails a bit, then with Jasons help we sanded it and shaped it a little but tried to keep the general shape.



You can see the pics from before we paint. But this is just the beginning and we are planning on doing the "soap trick" after we put the first set of glass over it; we will reveal its wonders at the right time. We already did the spackle trick which was revealed earlier.




Left in some imperfections to keep it real. We are not going for perfection with this board but functionality and durability. The shape is very functional for most days out here and the durability will come with the epoxy shell.


Spray gun. Note the booger green haze surrounding me. Feeling hulkish. Jason has a sweet shop set-up.

The tiger stipes are actually an unintentional, beginners hack.

But we roll with it... Hey check out those sweet tiger stripes!


Keep checking in...the process continues.

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