MAKING A SURF BOAT

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21938, 12 November 1936, Page 3 (Supplement)

MAKING A SURF BOAT

Those who are able to spend some of their holidays at the seaside will find surf riding a thrilling sport. To make a good surf board is not at all difficult. White pine or kauri 1

is the best timber for the purpose, but if these are not available, an excellent surf board can be made of Pinus radiata, willow, or even poplar. Take two boards 12 inches Vide, one inch thick and six or

seven feet long and shape them as shown in the diagram. The narrow end should be eight inches wide and the other end should be rounded 1 off so that the widest part of the

board is 12 inches from the end. Join these two boards together _ with three short pieces of 4in x in the way illustrated in the diagram, using brass screws, as iron corrodes very quickly in salt water. The most

suitable screws for the purpose are If x 14. The timber should be planed and sand-papered thoroughly before being put together. When the board is finished it should be given two or three good coats of linseed oil, to make it as waterproof as possible. It is a good plan to bum the owner’s name on the board with the aid of the sun and a magnifying Instructions for using the surf board are given elsewhere in this issue.