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Trouble getting a board back from South Africa

Postby jennie » Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:37 am

Im travelling to South Africa in April for a while and have booked my flights with BA....except i they dont take surf boards anymore. Any one know of any other way to get it back to the uk?

Hello to the oldies by the way!

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Postby Dr Rev » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:15 pm

Hey jen, hope your ok ?

Guess the next thing to try is a courier ? Might be damn expensive though, would it be cheaper to hire boards when you out there ??
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Postby jennie » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:06 pm

everything is fine and dandy my way, how about yourself?


Thing is boards are pretty cheap in South Africa and for the time im going its well worth buying one, could try and sell it before i go but it would be nice to bring it back, i think getting it couriered could be pretty pricey, there must be some other way of doing it....
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Postby kitesurfer » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:12 pm

jennie wrote:everything is fine and dandy my way, how about yourself?


Thing is boards are pretty cheap in South Africa and for the time im going its well worth buying one, could try and sell it before i go but it would be nice to bring it back, i think getting it couriered could be pretty pricey, there must be some other way of doing it....


In the words of DBBB

"PADDLE PADDLE PADDLE"

You could allways ask one of the shops locallly. I bet one of them will ship world wide and they'll get better rates than you could on your own!

KS
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Postby jennie » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:05 pm

haha...i like the idea chris, gonna take it as a personal challenge to paddle from cape town to bournemouth, beat that laird hammilton!

actually your on to something with the shops, guess im just going to have to see when im out there...

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Postby The Fafanator » Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:37 am

jennie wrote:everything is fine and dandy my way, how about yourself?


Thing is boards are pretty cheap in South Africa and for the time im going its well worth buying one, could try and sell it before i go but it would be nice to bring it back, i think getting it couriered could be pretty pricey, there must be some other way of doing it....


PRETTY CHEAP?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Yea sure R3000 is really cheap! Ha! Maby if you live in the UK and get twice as much pay as we do (if you convert the currency), but around here R3000 is a months rent!

But anyway be sure to head my way. (Mosselbay, it has some nice waves.)
BTW when are you coming? If I where you I wouldn't come before late May, since the waves suck in the summer, permanently onshore, but it cooks in the winter.
See you in the lineup!! :thumbs: :surfing:
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Postby Surfing-Innovation » Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:03 pm

but it cooks in the winter


And you'd know that because..... ?????
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Postby surferdude_scarborough » Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:30 pm

hmm been surfing 3 months. ie this is ur first winter? her boards cost 300 quid plus. which is lots more than my months rent.
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Postby Surfing-Innovation » Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:37 pm

3,000.00 ZAR = 187.434 GBP

Are boards THAT cheap??? I assume that's for pop-outs or something??

Francois, if you think that's expensive, you'll need one hell of a paper round to afford anything over here! (Or you'll need to wax lots of people's boards - if you ever get time in between internet forums and thinking about skating and surfing, and then kick boxing and karate - or is is astro-physics this week??)

A half decent longboard will cost double that from a shaper - more from a shop..........
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Postby jethrodog » Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:41 pm

Okay, so here's a question. Might be stupid, my questions usually are according to the wife :D

Would it be possible to cut the board in half and have a shaper re-attach/repair back in the UK.

I have seen longboards that people have broken in half that have been repaired so I think it would be possible. But would it ride like dunk, or be not bad?

This is completely hypothetical of course.
Sooo, anyone?
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Postby Sillysausage » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:08 am

nah, normally if you break a board in half and fix it theres more chance of snapping it again plus it loses most of its value and would be hard to sell again although a portable surfboard would be a good invention
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Postby Real Pol » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:54 am

My mate got his board sent from Aberdeen to Melbourne which cost £200. That was the cheapest quote he could find, I imagine it would be a similar price.

Kitesurfers idea is the best. Buy from a shop that posts to the uk and work out some deal where you could go back once you'd finished in SA and they'll package it and post it. It would save loads of hassle too.
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