Last week a friend catapulted on my F2 Power Glide and smashed the nose. This board is made of IPS composite which is very different from your usual epoxy board. A few blokes who have done many epoxy repairs weren't too sure about how to go about patching this board up due to the plastic-like outer coating of the board. I've emailed F2 but I'm not sure if I'll get a response regarding repairs.
Cheers,
Duke.
i put a lot smaller hole in one of my dads ols plastic board s a while ago and we used sicka flex to seal it up .. was a lot smaller thou
Jesus thats a bad one :(
Depends on your skill level I suppose too. I am reasonably skilled but that repair looks quite difficult. It would be hard to reshape the nose back to original.
If it was me I would give that one to the professionals 
Its plastic! I wonder why they call it a composite. Are there multiple layers of material in there, or just EPS?
Do a search on plastic board repair, but I think the only way to go is to rough up the plastic to try and get the epoxy to mechanically bond to it.
I haven't ever repaired a plastic board, I am just repeating what I have read.
if it's plastic it's time to buy a new board.
but i don't think it's plastic. i can see fibreglass.
looks to me like it has had a little too much sunshine and has gone brittle. you can fix it but chances are it'll happen again. if not the nose then somewhere else.
I think it is plastic as its got a nice seam running around it. This is usually from a molded, ASA board.
I think I have sailed a Powerglide before, and I think I am right in it being plastic.
Have a look at boardlady.com/anatomy.htm . I think it is one of the 'non-epoxy boards that she shows, the third from the bottom.
edit:
If you get stuck with someone that can repair it down the line and you really want to keep the board, the only things I can think of are:
Hot melt glue the bits of EPS and plastic back into place to restore the rough shape of the nose. Fill the cracks and gaps with a mixture of epoxy and microballoons. Roughen up the existing plastic with coarse sandpaper. Coat the whole nose section plus another couple of inches in epoxy and glass. This could be your new 'integrated' nose protector.
Of course if you find someone that knows what they are doing, feel free to disregard my suggestions.
Thanks for the info folks. FormulaNova, I'm going to go with your suggestion. If I pull the nose up it all fits together nicely but I think I'm going to need to add a lot of glass and epoxy as the core has taken a beating.
In a week or two I'll post the results.
Thanks again,
Duke
