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.

They are made using a hollow wooden frame that is pre cut and glued together making the board both light and strong. Sup foam blank fiberglass epoxy resin fin box sup handle sup vents included in this unique sup building kit. Step 1 assemble the internal frame hollow core wooden paddle boards are just that. A year or so ago i made a big mistake.

Building a wooden paddle board is a bit different than building foam boards and can typically be broken up into four main activities. 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. Complete plans and templates for building a hollow wooden stand up paddleboard sup. There are approximately 10 cu ft in this baby.

These are the general steps but plan to do some research on the shape you like and the tools you want to use before. The deck and rails are all redwood strips and the inside was filled with 2 part polyurethane pour foam. Building your own paddleboard by pat grubb. How to make a sup or stand up paddleboard.

The specs on the foam say it will float about 65 lbs per cu ft. Why do we build hollow wood surf and paddleboards. Building a paddleboard is simple in theory but can be complicated in practice. Pdf files let you get started right away.

The kaholo is a kit produced by chesapeake light craft clc a well known manufacturer of small boat kits. The internal fishbone frame is the skeleton that replaces the traditional foam core usually. One of the really cool parts about building a paddle board is the top and bottom panels can be. Building these boards has become a passionate statement about the lessons and skills attained over a lifetime.

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. 55 pages and over 130 high resolution pictures and drawings. 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.