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. Why do we build hollow wood surf and paddleboards. What i ended up building can almost qualify as a party boat. Complete plans and templates for building a hollow wooden stand up paddleboard sup.

The deck and rails are all redwood strips and the inside was filled with 2 part polyurethane pour foam. These are the general steps but plan to do some research on the shape you like and the tools you want to use before. Building your own paddleboard by pat grubb. A year or so ago i made a big mistake.

55 pages and over 130 high resolution pictures and drawings. Pdf files let you get started right away. 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. Sup foam blank fiberglass epoxy resin fin box sup handle sup vents included in this unique sup building kit.

The specs on the foam say it will float about 65 lbs per cu ft. Works great in the surf as wall in flat water. How to build a wood paddle board step 1. Step 1 assemble the internal frame hollow core wooden paddle boards are just that.

Building these boards has become a passionate statement about the lessons and skills attained over a lifetime. Building a paddleboard is simple in theory but can be complicated in practice. Building a wooden paddle board is a bit different than building foam boards and can typically be broken up into four main activities. The kaholo is a kit produced by chesapeake light craft clc a well known manufacturer of small boat kits.

One of the really cool parts about building a paddle board is the top and bottom panels can be. 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. The internal fishbone frame is the skeleton that replaces the traditional foam core usually.