latman said..
a LOT OF STUFF got cut out between glassing the deck laminate and final polishing ha ha , I was very surprised he cut the fin system recess by hand given that shaping machine could do it WAY more accurately .
the "profiler" generally only rough cuts the blank, there is still fine tuning by hand. If the "profiler" was to machine the fin systems and then the depth is changed when final hand shaping is done, then the recess would need to be reworked anyway. A good router and good jig (which are propbably supplied by FCS and Futures) are going to be every bit as accurtate as needed.