Hi everyone

After my much-better-than-expected DIY plywood light wind kiteboard I have now come up with a new project. I have a lot of wood left and I am itching to do something cool with it.

SO here is my idea. I want to make a directional board with some plywood. It is 12mm so I will have to do two layers for a big part of the board. I want to leave the nose as a single layer so I can put some rocker in it. I need some rocker to surf some waves.

I want to have something to surf waves with as it is hard to ride waves with a small TT. But here is the catch. I want to be able to use it(even if only barely) for paddle surfing as well.

I don't know what size exactly but reading through some posts on here and some surf forums I am leaning to something like 180cm x 60cm with either a square tail or a slight swallow tail. Is 180cm too much for a kiteboard? My DIY light wind board is 150cm x 50cm and I can ride it when the kite is struggling to stay in the air(very hard to launch it).

Would love to hear some suggestions from others. If someone has built one before please feel free to share advice, comments, lessons learnt and pics.

Thanks guys

Cheers
Mozzie