Surfing Waves

Well on saturday I snapped the nose of my 6'1 thruster off at Dee Why, didnt recover the nose..its actually lost a good 4 inches off the size now lol...its a shame, only had the board for a year...and my 6'6 webber fat burner has now a huge chunk of foam missing underneath because of some loser running into me...that at least can be repaired

im getting a new board....

my boards are relatively unscathed, aside from a brush with head high shore break and rocks

However, I saw a board a few weeks back that some dumb sod had burried vertically in the sand. 30 knot winds are common here, so the board basically just snapped in half.

shattered the nose of a windsurfing board, 6'2" buckled during a big session at home and a few small dings on my present board that are not much to talk about..... I'm bad luck!

Hey Brian I surf a lot at deewhy , its my favourite beach ! and I ride a Webber Afterburner lol.
Although my after burner got a side on up on the sunshine coast , by sum long boarding wave hog !! it was no bother though as my after burner is looking a bit ruff round the tail.

New one for september me thinks .......

dee why is a really nice beach.. we actually started late arvo saturday at long reef, but got blown all the way over lol...couldnt be bothered paddling, plus the waves were 10x better at DY.

i can show this pic 1000 times and i wont get tired of it. nose broke in a shorebreak, now its repaired. white stuff on belly is when i got smashed into rocks at low tide. also the entire right fin and system was torn out when i hit some reef.

i also snapped a fiberglass short board once when it was buckled, so i stopped using fiberglass

I had a board get run over in Saunton car park once...

hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf wrote: nose broke in a shorebreak, now its repaired.

Where did you repair your board??? How was the repair??? Did it look good???

I dinged my board many times. Always small dings. I repair them immediately. I don't want my board to turn all yellow and brown. It's my first surfboard.

The worst ding I had was kinda minor compared to many of yours. I was paddling in a super shallow water. The water was so shallow that I could touch the reefs while paddling. I tried to paddle my way out of the reefs but a wave struck me and I got stuck on a big rock. It damaged the bottom of my board and pin.

in the middle of repairing a biggish ding/cracked hole on the nose.


Bloody thing fell over and smacked into the door

well the nose is all blue now. but they did a fine job at repairing it. they dont really match the color (obviously) but thats fine with me, as long as its not some weird pinkish or yellow sick looking color.

as for places ive only been to 3. the ones in town sucked. the one i like is hawaiian watersports in kaneohe (i think). blue hawaii fuked up a ding once, and RV's sold me a shitty fin that mucked up the ding even more. i had a ding blue crush was going to charge me 70 for, so i took it to hawaiian water sports and they charged 40.

here

http://www.hawaiianwatersports.com/

been realy lucky to date, the only dings that i've had to repair are the ones that the previous owner fixed. it was weird, i used it a bunch of times and then one day i was checking my board over and the repair job was looking kinda weird. grabed it with my tumb and index and it came right off. that happend at two spots, guess they weren't done right. but my friends board is realy old and something breaks every time she takes it out. so i think that that would be the worst. i'm preaty sure that it needs to be stripped and reglassed.

I repair my board with Kimo Greene. He is very good in repairing boards and he is also a shaper. Check out his website.

http://www.kimogreenesurfboards.com/

I've snapped 3 boards
1 Trying to land a stupid air
2 Wave fell down so hard in the middle of my board it snapped
3 Same as #2

and aciddentaly left one in my car on a ridicilously hot day, when I came back, it had a massive deck sink in it and pretty much ruined