9'8" Nose Rider

Plan is for an 18 3/4" nose, 16 1/2" tail (tail block 8"), 24" wide, 3 1/4" thick. 5" nose rocker 3 3/4" tail rocker.  sort of old school rail foils. Little early to think that part through. Single fin...of course.

             

Center spar 2 5mm plywood. I use water based contact cement, better for the environment. Problem was getting the two pieces to have enough clamping pressure.so I run over this spar with my car. :)   

 

At this point it weights 15.5 pounds. I'm waiting for a shipment of Paulownia to help keep weight to around  21 pounds. 

Want to try out a woody?

Just might head down to this event in October. I'll bring extra boards. Meet fellow wood board builders including Dennis Hansen, Dirty Crow Surfboards and maybe Tom Allen from Tradition Surfboards, and myself.

https://woodensurfboardusa.blogspot.com/2017/07/planned-event-for-2017.html

From 2016 Los Angeles International Auto Show

I was asked to build a board similar to a foam board with black fading to board material, but made from wood. The tricky part was getting the flat black to fade. This picture doesn't do it justice. The black is uniform across the nose and fades nicely to wood. The only thing I can think of is the lighting, but in any case, the black is just not showing up right.  Tom Allen, fellow board builder and wizard with paints, did the work.

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Rip Tide season

Over the last three years, Tom and I have rescued three kids from being washed out in rip tides. The scary part was their parents never knew it happened.

If you think you can out swim one, well maybe you can. The reality is probably not and children are easily over powered by rip currents. The issues seems to be they feel protected while holding on to a boogy board, they are not. Or they know how to swim. Ocean swimming is completely different animal.

1. Always keep an eye on your children. Know where they are at all times.
2. Boogy boards are unsafe insurance.
3. If you're not from around here and don't know what a rip tide/current looks like, as a local. Hit up the guy/gal on that red ATV doing beach patrol.
4. There are NO lifeguards at Sunset Beach or Ocean Isle Beach.
5. Take two minutes and read the posted sign at SB boardwalks about rip tides.

More about Rip Tides:  Rip Tide Dangers

Have a safe vacation at our beach.

Want to learn to how to surf and water safety, call Tom, upper right corner of this page.

Those of us that use Sunset Beach, here is an update on NC's bird nesting area protection

     

Oystercatcher     

  Wilson's Plover

eitzer, Sara H 

To

Schweitzer, Sara H

May 3 at 3:55 PM

Good Afternoon -

Many of you have helped NCWRC with bird nesting concerns on Sunset Beach
near Tubbs Inlet in recent years. A lot has changed at the inlet due to natural
erosion and accretion within the inlet management zone. Additional changes
have included construction of a couple new homes and landowners' opposition
to posting any area of the inlet management zone.

In preparation for this nesting season, I've sent several emails and left many voice
mail messages with the landowners or their representative. To date, I have not
gotten a reply. I have spoken with their representative this morning, but I am still
waiting to learn if it will be okay to post the small area used by American Oyster
catchers and Wilson's Plovers for nesting. I've emphasized that we would also be
protecting the dune and vegetation from pedestrian traffic, thereby benefiting the
landowner.

Due to lack of response but immediate need to provide some protection for the
American Oystercatchers, my technician, Nick Jennings, will put up some posts
along the high tide line at the nesting area to at least alert people to the sensitive
area. Ideally, the oystercatchers would have as great a buffer as possible between
their nest and people's activities. No dogs should be present, but if they are, they
need to be on a leash (I think there's a leash law for SSB?). 

Nick will be at the site tomorrow morning around 8:30 a.m. to put up the posts.
If you see him, you can lend him a hand, or just introduce yourself and give him
some background about the area. 

I will keep you up-to-date on communications with the landowners and their
representative. If you would check the posts to be sure they are not getting
washed out, that would be very helpful. Nick can check the area periodically
, but we are in the midst of the coastwide survey of all colonial-nesting
waterbirds this month, so we won't have a lot of spare time.

Thank you for any help you can provide!

My best regards,

Sara

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S. H. Schweitzer, Ph.D.

Wildlife Diversity Biologist // Waterbirds Investigations & Management Project

NC Wildlife Resources Commission

Wildlife Diversity Program

New Bern, North Carolina 28562

252-639-8435   //   sara.schweitzer@ncwildlife.org    

ncwildlife.org