Surfing Waves

just got back from Sri Lanka...lovely and warm, where my boards were waxed up with Basecoat and then Tropical on top. Back here in the UK
now and it's a bit cold and I really dunno if I can muster up the energy to take all the tropical wax off and re do it with cold water wax...
What's the worst that can happen?
Anyone know?

I don't think it matters? It's only bad when you start using cold wax during summer as they come off very quickly. I never redo the wax during winter months.

I think the worst that can happen is that it gets too slippery. If that is the case, I think you can put some coldwater wax on top - it should be softer.

I bought some Sex Wax the other day and asked for a bar of base coat. They handed me a bar of the tropical wax. I told my wax tender that I needed cold water wax and he said the tropical wax was the base coat. It also said tropical/base coat on the box. I don't think it's a big deal.

voyager wrote:What's the worst that can happen?

Go surf it, you’ll find out. My boards from Hawaii, all had tropical wax. First take off in Japan, I looped out backwards or later did the splits.

Wascally wabbits with wrong waxhave waxidents

You asked the very same question 2 years ago when you came back from Sri Lanka. You mean to say you’ve never changed out the wax ?

to work properly wax needs to be 'just' soft enough. Too hard and its solid and you slip off; too soft and its soft and mushy

the different temp waxes just have different softness at different temps. So use the wrong wax and you will find out - its not a 'hard line' but it will start getting mushy or too hard

but hard wax (ie tropical) is good as a base coat, because you dont want your base coat being soft (otherwise you have slippery stuff on top of an unstable base).