Building A Wooden Stand Up Paddle Board

How to make a sup or stand up paddleboard.

Building a wooden stand up paddle board. 55 pages and over 130 high resolution pictures and drawings. Additionally hollow wood boards can be built with mostly sustainable products such as salvaged or plantation grown woods and there are now epoxy resins. 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. What i ended up building can almost qualify as a party boat.

The specs on the foam say it will float about 65 lbs per cu ft. Complete plans and templates for building a hollow wooden stand up paddleboard sup. Building a wooden paddle board is a bit different than building foam boards and can typically be broken up into four main activities. Building a paddleboard is simple in theory but can be complicated in practice.

Building these boards has become a passionate statement about the lessons and skills attained over a lifetime. Building your own paddleboard by pat grubb. Why do we build hollow wood surf and paddleboards. How to build a wood paddle board step 1.

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. The internal fishbone frame is the skeleton that replaces the traditional foam core usually.

The kaholo is a kit produced by chesapeake light craft clc a well known manufacturer of small boat kits. Pdf files let you get started right away. These are the general steps but plan to do some research on the shape you like and the tools you want to use before. They are made using a hollow wooden frame that is pre cut and glued together making the board both light and strong.

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. One of the really cool parts about building a paddle board is the top and bottom panels can be. Works great in the surf as wall in flat water.