Malcolm,
It is looking good. I am making slow progress on mine, I am traveling a lot and my teenage daughter will not let me work on it without her and she has a typical teenage social life. I have the rails done and am about to start the flat portion of the hull. I plan to use 4" wide fence boards planed down with a 1/4" inch bass wood, 3/4" inch walnut and 1/4" inch basswood strip between each 4" piece. So far the challenge has been on the bow and stern. You are coming in from a wider point across a shorter span and at the same time going from an almost vertical to a somewhat horizontal direction. I did both halves of both ends a little different trying to figure it out. I think the rest of it is going to go pretty fast. If I do another one from a building perspective the edges will be more squared off, the stern will likely be cut off like most traditional boards, and I will extend the bow curve over a longer length. I am not sure how that will work from a design perspective.
Scott
: Good day all,

: As mentioned before, I have designed a fast racing SUP using Kayak
: Foundry to start, and then modified and tweaked by Brad Tucker
: at Wood Surfboard Supply for CNC routing. It took some tweaking,
: but here is the first form which I will use to build the
: prototype.

: I want to be clear and up front that I will be compensated for the
: sale of kits for this and may myself market plans for it, and
: therefore I respect the board rules. I am sharing this because
: many people have discussed here desinging a better SUP with more
: of a kayak hull, and I feel it would be of interest. I will be
: factual in my posts and stick to the topic of building a
: displacement hull SUP. I think being that it was designed with
: Kayak Foundry up front, you will appreciate this build.

: Thanks to Ross Leidy for his kind generosity of making Kayak
: Foundry available. I did donate to the cause and plan to donate
: more later on. I suggest if any of you have used Kayak Foundry
: to design something you give Ross something for his efforts.
: Thanks Ross!!! I'm really excited about this design coming to
: fruition and honestly also a bit nervous because my reputation
: as a designer is on the line here!

: Well, I did a video on Facebook at Schweizer Surfboards page, but
: first had to post it to my private page so I don't know if this
: link will work but here it is:

: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150666549032180

: If not, go to Schweizer Surfboard page and it's a public page and
: the video is there. I will attach a still shot of the forms laid
: out.

: The deck is going to be peaked slightly to give secondary buoyancy
: when you punch a wave in open water. The aft deck is mostly
: flat- technically there is a tiny amount of curvature to allow
: water to drain off the deck but otherwise flat as a flitter. The
: aft deck will meet the foredeck in a curved cutaway with a
: "wall" of strips kind of like a kayak coaming joining
: the gap between the higher foredeck and lower aft deck. So hard
: to say, easier to wait and see when I get that part done.

: Here is the form laid out on my living room floor: