Surfing Waves

Hi all,

Which way round do you put your surfboard on a roof rack ?

Nose at the front of the car ?

Or tail and fin end at the front of the car ?

Have looked on the net and found people do it both ways !!

Which is best ?

don't know if there is a 'best way' i put mine nose in the front (more aerodynamic)

Thanks

ive heard that you should put the nose at the front of your car as this is the most fragile bit of the board. Unless you have a very good board bag that would protect it from stones flying up from the road.

Its the way I do it but I only have a BIC board. Once I get a proper one it'll go tail first, youve already lost so much of the aerodynamincs of the car I dont spose it would make much more difference.

lol any boardbag would stop stones, unless a huge brick came flying up? thats what they're made for isn't it? maybe i'm wrong, not sure, but i personally put the nose at the front

I always put the tail up front, that way the fins can catch it if it ever gets loose on the straps.

I was gonna buy one of those Old Guys Rule shirts this past weekend, but never got back to main street in Huntington because I was surfing instead.

As for board direction - tail first.

Thats a good point !

Thanks

Old Guys Rule wrote:I always put the tail up front, that way the fins can catch it if it ever gets loose on the straps.

Haha

I put it nose first in case the straps come loose so the fins catch when I break!!

You're never comfortable when your pride and joy is on the roof, my hand always snakes out the window every mile to check it's still there.

lol, i always open the sun roof, to make sure i would notice if they did come off (tough wood it doesn't!!!)