Having a surf at my local point this morning, dead low tide about 5- 6 foot (on the macho scale
) - sitting a bit deep with another fella - feeling a bit bullet proof after the weekend
Got a set wave that developed an ugly step in it right over the suck rock and got flipped so I kicked board away from me and the lip must have landed right on the center of it [}:)] Buggar!!
This thing was so solid too, tonnes of glass. If I ever make another one it will hav a carbon stringer cut into it for the full length of the board.
You have to love the way the ocean will kick your @rse when you least expect it - at least it wasn't my back!
That's a shame Goatie , thats why when I got my big girl made it has a double stringer.
Rob
Feel your pain Goatie. Think of it as taking a hit for SUP riders everywhere - that takeoff sounds like you might have racked up some respect points from the rest of the lineup.
Thanks Guys!
That double stringer poly looks the go for a Gun, Rob. What blank would you use though? Or is it eps with a stringer glued in?
Serious bummer !
In my opinion, you definately want stingers in the big wave boards. It adds weight, so what !! You need the strength.
The board in my logo/avatar is actually a triple stringer. I have another normal surfboard gun with a 1/2 inch red hardwood stringer.
Big waves are about 'point and shoot and hope' rather than worrying about 'swing weight from stringers' !!
Double bugger
Better get busy, if not borrow my 10er for the north trip might be a bit big though
Hey Goatie,
Sorry to hear you snapped your baby.
Are you going to try to recover it??
Phill
Hey Hilly, thanks for the offer mate very generous but I wouldn't be game to borrow someones' SUP like that - unless it was AA's....LOL
Hey Phil, I will probably fix it at some stage, have done heaps of shorties and a couple of goats with pretty good results, bit of a pain of a job though[}:)]
that sucks goatie but any board would of snaped in the same situation
my mate was there and he said he was stoked as you were taking to many sets i told him well you could of paddled in there and took of where goatie was sitting he didnt really like that but whatever. Mate get that grip off and fix it u no where im at if u need anything
No good goatman, had two of my boards come across a similar fate recently, both repaired now, although i did add another snapped 8mm leash to my broken collection this morning.
Do you reckon the stringer will make much of a difference ,was speaking to someone recently about this and it seems with the volume of the sup boards they won't penetrate the water surface like say a shortboard would in a wipeout so their just sitting there and take the full force of the wave,
anyway hope it repairs well,
Cheers.
I think if you are going to push the boundaries you need timber stingers , the only sups I have snapped have been stringerless (3 off) got some new boards on the way , all will have timber.
Rob
good luck for your new board rob
Last week I snapped my green 9'10 I had in PNG
it had a stringer in it + extra glass + extra glass again just on the rail just in case...
Did'nt make any difference, it snapped.
What else can you do? I ordered exactly the same...
What you need is luck!
1 cubic metre of water = 1 tonne - go figure on the amount of water in sizeable waves-pretty hard to make a board that'll be unbreakable AND one you'd wanna' surf.
Commiserations-don't bother wasting the time and energy repairing-go for a MKII-onward and upward.....
