Building A Wooden Stand Up Paddle Board

Additionally hollow wood boards can be built with mostly sustainable products such as salvaged or plantation grown woods and there are now epoxy resins.

Building a wooden stand up paddle board.

What i ended up building can almost qualify as a party boat. How to make a sup or stand up paddleboard. The deck and rails are all redwood strips and the inside was filled with 2 part polyurethane pour foam. Building these boards has become a passionate statement about the lessons and skills attained over a lifetime.

Sup foam blank fiberglass epoxy resin fin box sup handle sup vents included in this unique sup building kit. How to build a wood paddle board step 1. The kaholo is a kit produced by chesapeake light craft clc a well known manufacturer of small boat kits. What that means to a prospective hollow wood board builder is there are many different styles of hollow wooden sups to choose from based on your interest in the various aspects of the sport.

Building a paddleboard is simple in theory but can be complicated in practice. The specs on the foam say it will float about 65 lbs per cu ft. The internal fishbone frame is the skeleton that replaces the traditional foam core usually. 55 pages and over 130 high resolution pictures and drawings.

Pdf files let you get started right away. A year or so ago i made a big mistake. Works great in the surf as wall in flat water. Building a wooden paddle board is a bit different than building foam boards and can typically be broken up into four main activities.

I picked up a copy of wooden boat magazine which contained an article on how to build the kaholo a wooden stand up paddleboard sup. I m sure many would say why bother but as a lifelong water oriented person who has sailed surfed and worked with wood for decades it s simply something that had to be done. Building your own paddleboard by pat grubb. These are the general steps but plan to do some research on the shape you like and the tools you want to use before.

One of the really cool parts about building a paddle board is the top and bottom panels can be. Why do we build hollow wood surf and paddleboards. Complete plans and templates for building a hollow wooden stand up paddleboard sup.