Paulownia wood and PVC foam, 10oz stiched eglass and 300gm basalt fibre top and bottom, ABS rails. Cured initially at room temperature and post cured at 60-70 C for 6 hours.
En bref :
This my latest tiwn tip effort. After hearing about Basalt fibre reinforcement about a year ago (in case it gets lost in translation this is reinforcement material made for basalt rock quarried from old volcanoes and drawn into a fibre and woven) it finally became available in Australia in small quantities. So this board is the first one I know of that has made use of Basalt fibre. It has about 80% of the strength of carbon but stretches 2-3 times further than carbon before breaking. Most important its about 1/2 the price of carbon
The board is wake style board with 50mm rocker ( twice as much as my other efforts) and quite stiff ( it bends about 60mm when clamped in the middle and I apply a 20kg load to the tip). Most of the curvature in the board is in the middle third with the tips close to flat. This give lots of lift in the middle of the boards so you really get a feeling that the board is riding and pivoting in the middle. Makes carving on waves and loading the rail up brilliant. With all the rocker it is great in reasonable sized wind chop and waves.
The trade off for this great wake feel is that it doesn't go up wind especially well. its okay but not one of it strengths. I think it would benefit from some channels near the rails in the mid section. Currently my favourite board just like every other board I've made each time it first hits the water
