Sunday, August 26, 2012

SUP paddle blades shipped to Hemel

Last week we shipped out the first set of sup paddle blades to Hemel Board Company in Seattle.
Steve DeKoch's company is busy building a delivering their line of SUPs and we are able to supply a co-designed blade to their shop.
The first shipment included 4 glass cahokia blades in blue and 1 in carbon fiber.  These blades fit on a 1 &1/8 inch (id) shaft.  We bought shafts from Nimbus paddles for our camp order and Hemel will most likely use these as well.
We are currently building a mandril to spin cast our own shafts, but this will take awhile to perfect.
We will post some photos of it as it gets closer to completion.

The blades have Hemel branding.
Also included was a set of handles and a handle display.






Monday, August 20, 2012

Summer boating: Dauphin Island

We headed down to the Gulf Coast for a family getaway.  Once again the skiff sat on the sidelines.  We rented a van and couldn't tow it.  But we had some great times with our two kayaks.  Dauphin Island, Alabama was our destination.  It is a great place.  Lot's of rental houses as well as year round residence.  No big commercial condo buildings and lots of great fishing.
We rented a house on the bay side of the island and it had water access.
Here are some photos:

Indian shell mound park
This hill is made of oyster shells, hundreds of thousands of oyster shells.


Spanish moss on a live oak (also known as goat trees)






Paddling out to the sea marker.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Mississippi River Skiff: Outer Gunwale

The Mississippi River Skiff is getting a few finishing touches.  Yesterday we installed the outer gunwale.  It is composed of two trim profiles cut out of Poplar.  The first piece covers the glass skin of the hull and wraps around to the inner gunwale.  On top of that is set a half round of Poplar.
These were epoxied to the hull.