I was looking for a good winter project and as my wife was renting a SUP for an hour every weekend I thought I would try building one(for her of course)

I did some googling and came across the Kaholo 14 design from Chesapeake light craft

www.clcboats.com/modules/catalog/boat.php?category_qn=surf_boats&code=kaholo-stand-up-paddleboard

I liked the look of it as I wanted something big and stable as I had visions of myself using it as a fishing platform on occasion. The plans (full size)arrived with a construction manual and its all fairly straight forward to build even for a board building novice like myself. I made a couple of modifications such as the decorative tail block, storage locker and I put a fin box in as well.
Its probably a $700 dollar build (Gaboon ply and epoxy are brutally expensive!)and probably a 50 hour build time but over many days as some days you can only do an hour and then have to wait for epoxy to harden ,dust to settle etc

Apologies for the dodgy camera phone photos but I didn't have posting in mind when I took them.

Unfortunately I now need to build a matching paddle...sigh!!








Will report on how it paddles in a later update after I build the bloody paddle!!