well, i live about 1200 feet from the beach. pretty close, but kinda a way to pack a board back and forth. i decided to make a board cart. had an old kids scooter i picked outa a neighbor's trash a couple years ago to haul something else, did a little re-engineering.

cut front of frame off, and split down middle with a sawzall.

ripped an oak board and carriage bolted frame legs to it. it had a box tube on front, is sturdy.

mounted wheels outboard. wanted to use a straight axle, but these metric thread, hdwe store didn't have metric all thread. but this seems to be stout enough. not enough weight to bend ears of frame.

made a box frame outa red cedar leftover from my board. drilled and epoxied 7/8 dowels in, padded contact areas.

handle made outa piece of oak was stapled to my surfboard kit cnc sheet for stiffness. was a nice piece of oak, so i saved it; you can see "driftwood sr." written on it!

yeah, i'm cheap! cost me 7 bucks for bolts, dowel, foam. rest is leftover junk.

besides, recycling cool. and no use making it pretty. my theory is anything nice you gotta watch or some punk will break it just cause he aint got one.

look like it'll do the job?

boco left me his big fish for a couple reasons, but one of the fins had gotten knocked loose; the waves we were riding caused a lot of purling, and the board would shoot clear of the water. i think either the leash hit it on the upshoot, or it landed on the fin, who knows.

so, i tried my hand at fin repair.

ground off around fin, back to where delamination of cloth stopped. it pulled cloth loose about 1" on inside, outside was tight.

sanded sides of fin fillet to remove loose stuff. didn't sand bottom so wood fibers would help realign in same place. measured and marked location just to make sure it did.

epoxied fin back on, filleted with end of popsicle stick to give radius.

let dry an hour, block/hand sanded area to desired contours.

laid cloth on both sides. used foam brush, lightly coated area, laid on cloth, dabbed/lightly brushed resin to fill weave.

more to follow.

finally got some more time to work on the board.

got all glass on, fins set, leash and vent plugs installed.

gotta glass fins, sand high spots here and there, then it's ready for hotcoat!

a few things; the brass insert has screwdriver slot to thread in. I didn't use it, instead screwed it onto nylon bolt upside down so slot on bottom. spread epoxy onto threads and in 3/8 hole (recommended size, but I think 23/64 would be better) and screwed whole thing in till flange on nylon bolt contacted epoxy and squeezed to about 1/32". after 10 min. just backed out bolt; epoxy doesn't stick to nylon well, popped right off flange. a little vaseline mighta been good, but don't want to chance contaminating the hotcoat. sanded it flush when dry, slotted nylon bolt. got a rubber washer to seal, but not on yet. I use a dubro brand nylon bolt as it has big hex head that I can screw in with fingers easily. I had some knurled head ones, but can't find them. they woulda been great.

leash plug stands slightly proud of surface, will sand it flush with hotcoat.

did a lotta research on fin placement, went with this. outside fins about 2" off nose, 3/16 angle from front to rear. no cant, what do I know? They are epoxied on. no roving, I don't have any. I prefer a good fillet on butt joint stuff like this. easy way for me is butter bottom of fin. press in place. pull off, butter again, reset and hold in place. can tape, etc. but with 5 min. epoxy I just hold them on line with a square next to them to sight off of. the fillet is pretty good at this point. I coulda wiped with acetoned finger or whatever to smooth further, but they are getting glassed over anyhow so will just sand them with paper wrapped around a 1/4 dowl or something.

the cut laps came out nice. the glass overall went better than expected, this epoxy/cloth is much better suited for glassing than the model plane adhesive is; it's thick, gotta heatgun, cloth is bidirectional and won't stretch, etc. this resinresearch and s cloth was great.

lets try again.