Vacuum Bagging Race Board

All the materials cut and ready to go

Rocker Table with V-bag

Vacuum working
Laminating botton of board first

Weight to hold down board to rocker table

Intalling finboxes

Checking out fin placement

Traifa Fin Company race fins 25 and 10cm, 25 degree cant angle

Looking fast

Gluing with Epoxy

Raceboard inserts

Inserts ready
M6 stainless steel

Set up for 3 footstraps - 2 forward positions

Shaping the blank

Blank is out of the bag and shaped to outline

Tapering down the nose area to 15mm thickness with planer

All the rails shaped

The rocker will be formed in V-bag

Race Board - Making the Blank

Outline of Race Board 5´8"

2 layers of H80 Divnycell 15mm

Ready to bond them together

In the V-bag. Epoxy with glass balloons for glue and 2 layers of 6oz glass between around fin-box area for sheer strength.

Finished Woody

The Deck

Massive concave

My custom handle

Constant Rocker

150x 42

Blank out and cut to shape

I pulled the blank out the of bag with 4 layers and decided that i needed to add another layer and an additional decorative layer on the deck.

Here i am cutting out the outline with a jigsaw.


The rough cut. I then sanded it on my home-made beltsander table. Look at earlier posts if you want to see it.
Those layers are totally glued and homogenous. Could not get the cutoffs to delam.
The blank weighs 1980 grams. Quite heavy- but will only need 1-2 layers glass each side.