Travelling with board

[derbyshire surfer]

Hi all,

I'm looking forward to Saturday...flying out to Portugal to surf for a week! Just wondering, I've been there before but hired a board over there, I'm taking my custom board (7'6' carpet), but have a lame ass bag.

I've heard nightmare stories about dings etc. and was wondering about the best way to pack it? So far I can only come up with put in my sleeping bag then sleeping bag in board bag if that makes sense? Any other ideas would be cool!

Cheers D.S

[PapaW]

Remove the fins...

Bubble wrap or cardboard around the rails and nose (atleast 2-3 layers)
Pack the rest of the bag with your suit, towels cloths etc.

Sick a note on the bag with "Top load only Please" in English and Portuguese.

Enjoy you trip man!

[essex sucks]

use pipe lagging(sp) on the rails

[derbyshire surfer]

Thanks a lot to you both for advice! Do they actually take notice of the 'Top load only' notes? I'm going to do that like you advised, I just remember watching my mates boards coming of the plane before in Faro and it looked like they were just chucking them any old how!

[PapaW]

its alway nice to put it on with a please in both languages can't do ny harm anyway!

[derbyshire surfer]

Obrigado for that! lol!

[pkbum]

Sick a note on the bag with "Top load only Please" in English and Portuguese.

Enjoy you trip man!

Haha nice advice! I guess I'll use this too!

[Johno]

I've up rated my board bag by simply cutting up 2 old carry mats / camping sleeping mats u know the 10mm thk foam type the same shape as ya board bag, then put the two halfs in ya board bag and ya board inbertween the to halfs.

a cheep way to give ya board bag more protection