Plus this:
With some of these:
tapered pinlines and deck patch.
The shaper is Andreini. The board is his somewhat-mellower-but-still-very-much-a hull. The dimensions are to be decided, but will be around 7'. The goal is a good paddler that still can duck dive if needs be. It's been tough for me deciding between a knife railed hull and a down railed gunnier type board. I've ridden both, had good waves on both. I think a hull would get used more, and I have a slightly too small downrailer that I can use if I am really needing that feel.
The artist is a friend of mine, Katie Owens. You can find her work on Society6.com and other similar places. The art will be printed on rice paper by a company like boardlams.com. I'm think either smaller on the deck near the nose or very small mirror images in the same location. Larger on the bottom a bit forward of center, maybe lined up with the wide point.
I believe the glassing is out of the Haut shop, although I'm not sure what the glassing company calls themselves. There is always a high quality of work coming out of that shop, so I'm confident they can do the pinlines I want.
I'm not sure of the final cost but I'm afraid it'll be near $1K. Andreini suggests his boards finish with a sand coat for the water shedding properties. I think that would wash out the artwork, so I will ask first and go with gloss if the glasser agrees with my idea. I just want the pinlines along the rail covering the glass wrap line, and maybe on the deck patch line. The deck patch wont look like what's shown above because I want it to carry to the tail. I'd love to have the fin glassed in for "style points" but I don't know if I'd be able to fit it into my Sentra. If I can't, I wont surf it as much so I'm going with the box. Glassed leash loop, or none and I'll get one of those glue on ones.
