With a straight sided mat its easy to do a Tube technique construction where the top and bottom are one piece.
Instead of two pieces joined with side flaps , it makes a better mat to wrap a single piece and create the form with a single over lapping join on the deck that's stronger than the flap joins.
With any mat that doesn't have straight sides,you can still have a No - Flap shape and have any planshape you like by connecting the deck and hull together and then turning the mat inside out. The join around the mat ends up inside the mat giving a smoother look and a better interaction with the wave.
For the Inside-Out technique, put the deck and hull together facing each other...
Glue the edges together with a 1 inch strip...
And then turn it inside - out.
All the sides and the nose are sealed, keeping the unique outline exact with the I- beams inside and you've just got to build the tail shape, which for this mat is a bevelled Swallow Tail.
Instead of two pieces joined with side flaps , it makes a better mat to wrap a single piece and create the form with a single over lapping join on the deck that's stronger than the flap joins.
With any mat that doesn't have straight sides,you can still have a No - Flap shape and have any planshape you like by connecting the deck and hull together and then turning the mat inside out. The join around the mat ends up inside the mat giving a smoother look and a better interaction with the wave.
For the Inside-Out technique, put the deck and hull together facing each other...
Glue the edges together with a 1 inch strip...
And then turn it inside - out.
All the sides and the nose are sealed, keeping the unique outline exact with the I- beams inside and you've just got to build the tail shape, which for this mat is a bevelled Swallow Tail.
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