Surfing Waves

EEEK!

Yea ok. After a long day at work, daylight hours sprinting off into the horizon, huge ugly on shore, just cruized past two beaches with NO waves. Stupid tides! And I'd finally found some waves even tho they were all chop and slop..Determined to make the best of a bad thing...

and the wind grabbed my fresh brand new two week old BEAUTIFUL custom log outa my kook hands and it made this interesting bouncy loud pingy smashy sound against the asphelt. arrrgh! over and over again

Your life totally slow motions before your eyes as your precious, your beloved, the LOVE OF YOUR LIFE.. canes heavily downwards..I tried to grab it and fall under it, put my foot out to stall its fall... futile

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so my question:

My board has a couple like, smashed glass patches. (I couldn't even bring myself to look for three days) One near the nose and one near the tail on the rail. I think it's made of fibre glass. I'm too scared to tell the surf god who made my board.

Does it really matter?

Will the fibre glass smash and splinter some more? Will it like, start perishing the rest of the board? Do you think I need to get it looked at or can I just shove some trusty sex wax on it and continue to 'not see it anymore'?

And more importantly; Do I have to fess up to Surge?

Hmm, i would take it into your local surf shop (preferably one where they actually shape boards and not just one of those poxy "surf" shops where they just sell clothes!) and get them to have a look. You dont want to risk it!!

get it fixed dude!!!!!!! you can do it yourself with a repair kit . dont take it in the water again til its fixed or it'll collect water

As long as there is no damage to your rails you should be ok I think. The rails are tough to fix unless you take it in. You could buy some good ding repair stuff. The same thing happened to me with my first board when the wind blew it off the side of my car. Except my rail got smashed on the curb. It is a horrible feeling yes...

take it to a surf shop, from what your describing your board doesnt need repairing, it needs frikkin surgery

Fess up to Surge. He'll fix it if it needs fixing, and he'll understand (these things happen).

HA Ha

Wow you guys are a huge help. Ok. I did fess up yesterday. I'll hear back from him soon.



Maybe I could/should/might slow down, altho It was nice as at 5:30 this am surfing under the peer lights, then watching this incredible sunrise...one of those intense red ones, and then this crazy rainbow against the incoming storm clouds.

Beautiful! Tino kino atahua!

Ta very much fellas!!

Sweet the other thing is the shaper wont know the true story. Tell him you took it in for its virgin sesh! and the surf was going off. You paddled into a set wave made the drop, angled off the bottom and ducked under the lip. You were well deep inside the barrel climbing and dropping to gain speed which the board seemed to magically find. The board was really "drivey" and held its line perfectly. As you shot out the barrel you some damn Haole was in the way you clipped him as you came out but you pummled him in the carpark!! . He really neednt know it slipped out of your "kook" hands in the carpark as a gust of onshore wind took it

Um, this little incident didn't happen at the St Clair Esplanade did it????
Just from your description of events...I'm visualising something that I've seen many times there...
B

Allrounder!! How'd you guess the truth so easy??!

Ha ha.. No B it didn't happen at St. Clair. Is that Dunners you're talking about?

Oh Shamo!!

I finally made myself look at the injury for real yesterday. I'm still in denial. It ain't pretty. I'm sure I can like... glue it together or somthing.

There's no way I can make myself not go out tho. It would be easier to decide to stop breathing.

DO NOT put wax on the dings! This WILL NOT waterproof the area. And 90% of the time you'll get charged $10+ extra for the repair. If you don't, then the repairer is assuming everyone will do this and adding that much on anyway.

If there's no serious damage (snapped or massive hole or...) just put a big-arsed sticker over it. Or some duct tape (I always carry some in my oot for just this purpose). You'll be able to surf it indefinately (OK, you'll have to replace the tape/sticker from time-to-time). And when you get the money togethor to pay for the repair your fix-it guy will be most pleased with you.

I just fix all dings myself :D It's not hard and there are some little tricks that, with practice, make your repair invisible. Haven't had to fix a snap yet... But I know how.

Plenty of repair/build info on http://www.swaylocks.com/

-doug
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