Building a wooden longboard, Part 1

Here is some slides from the first part of the project. The Treetosea workshop in Solva and then after some sanding back home.

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Going to Solva

Thursday February 24
Started at 4 pm driving from Varberg to Copenhagen. Had trouble checking in as I had booked the flight for March 24 not Feb 24 as it should be. Once in Manchester I rented a small car and fortunately also a GPS. I've never been to Wales so the roads where a bit of a surprise. The GPS helped me and after 5 hours of driving, half of it in the dark and raining, on narrow and narrowest roads I reached the small village of Solva.
With only a dozen or so houses in the village I had no problem finding the Williams House where the workshop would be and which was also my B&B. I hooked up with Paul who lives in Solva, working for a catamaran project and Rich from TreetoSea. They had been working all week to prepare for the workshop. Rounded of a long day of traveling with a ale in one of Solvas three pubs. Warm and cosy by the fire.

The workshop was held in the old lagerhouse which had latest housed a restaurant

Wooden longboard in Wales

February 15
Next week I'm off to Solva in SW Wales for a 3-day workshop. We are going to build hollow wooden surfboards with the strip&feather methode. Mine will be a 9' longboard. Rich from Grain Surfboards, Maine is leading the whole thing. It'll be real exiting. Check out http://treetosea.org/