Almost ready to put on the top planking

So I've put in all the strips I need and sanded down a flat surface to glue the top planking. Now all I need to do is put in my fin blocks. I've decided to use a quad fin canard system from rainbow fin co. The board should be super fast, but we'll see. I recently got the measurments for the fin placment from the grainsurf forum.

Costa Rica

Costa Rica was awesome. I took my 5'8" retro fish and it got pretty smashed up and messed me up a little, another reason to go with a wooden board.

Time

Back to college, the board will have to wait until probably late May. Hopefully I can head to Costa Rica for spring break, but that will mean that the board will wait longer. Anyway, don't expect any updates until school is out.
So the other day I broke the fin off my longboard, and I got a new Donald Takayama fin and it looks pretty nice, but again I won't get to use it for a few months.

Last update

So I glued on a couple more rail pieces and it's looking pretty good. It's pretty messy, but later I'll sand it all down and it should look really good. It's in my room until I get to work on it again after school.

Chine log #1

I glued on the right chine log, it went very well. In order to make the front of the log curve I steamed it with a towel and an iron. The process didn't take too long, but I don't have enough clamps to do the other log as well, so I have to wait. I guess I'll have to wait for each rail to dry before glueing the opposite side, this would take alot of time. I think I may trust the glue to stay after a couple hours and take off half the clamps to do the other side.

Tail Piece

I unclamped the boards from the keel and amazingly nothing happened. The tail pieces were too long as they should have been, so I had to cut off the extra, but keep the bottom boards. This turned out to be a nightmare and the amazing strength of the glue/caulk that I used tore of pieces of the bottom boards. The damage isn't serious and is mostly cosmetic and hopefully it won't show up.

Keel to bottom

Tonight I glued the keel the the bottom boards. I had to get six more clamps to finish the job and I could have used some more. The 5200 glue took some getting used to and I had a couple small gaps where I didn't get any glue squeezing out, but I filled them in. The only real problem was when the middle of the board between the two ribs didn't touch the keel. I put a board under the deck and wedged it up and that seemed to keep the boards together. Also, I glued the tail block on and secured it from the celing(ran out of clamps). I'm not putting any blocks in because I plan on glassing on the fins and putting the leash in without penetrating the board cavity through the tail, more on that later.