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yes i do mainly leave my bungs in, BUT my mate and myself both delaminated a board on the same occassion from leaving them in a hot car on the same day.
Both boards popped their bottoms the next sail.
Another friend of mine who stores his boards under the tarp on his ute has popped two boards!.
Basically if it is hot and you leave your board in the car / under ute cover then take bung out . The only board left out of 10 of one brand that i bought into the state many years ago is the board that has always had its bung removed. that says something.
Anyway here is a pic of the chinook base method that us tassies love. Perfect and simple. It is just big enough that it does not fall out. Try it!. i personally leave my track position once i find the spot i want so fixed plate no probs.
I too can vouch for locking the board bolt in the Chinook deckplate. It would probably work with the old Tyronsea system too. Basically impossible to go for a sail without the vent bolt in place.
Also I rarely unscrew the bolt. Its never unscrewed when going in the board bag and the footstraps are wet. However when its dry and not going to be used for a while I'll unscrew it.
What alternative is there to these fragile boards that suck in water if the hull is not intact? I'd be willing to buy a plastic board that weighs two or three kgs more but is extremely tough.
I know sh%t little about windsurfing,but I use to repair large fibreglass reinforced concrete panels on multi storey buildings.Sometimes they had massive amounts of water behind them which soaked the concrete making them impossible to repair in this wet state.We use to drill holes in them and put in a "wick"to drain the water out.It takes time,but evapouration might be your best friend to dry your board out.But definately not the sun.
Ian
...although it does work ok if you only got a small bit of water in the board (hit water, notice screw missing instantly, oops, jump off board & return to shore). Also if you've got heaps of time, too lazy to set up a vac system and aren't overly worried about your 'old' board.
I think all those who say they never remove the vent screw need to qualify their remarks with where they live and what sort of heat their board sees. Garage to car parked in shade, yeah maybe you can get away with it.
My gear lives in my car so I can sail after work so every day for 3 months it sees 15 deg to about 60+ degrees cycling. That is a lot of expansion and contraction.
Why take the chance? geared4knots has seen it happen (even in Tas?) - 2 boards on the same day is not a random event it was obviously the heat
Leave it undone that's what it is there for....... unless sailing or straps are dripping wet and it is in a bag. Even then if straps are damp just undo vent, bag it and leave bag open about a foot on one side.
I hope all you bung removers give the the bung a good licking before reinserting!
I've seen situatuins where sand grains on the bung have caused it to leak.
Never taken a vent screw out, My boards live in my black van all year round, most weekends it's in the sun. I've done some long stints in the WA summers as well where the boards are subjected to heat all day for up to six weeks, I've not had a problem. I think the problems start when you first get water in, I think once this happens you need to take the screw out when not sailing. The only time I'd take it out is if I was going to fly. One of my mates takes the vent screw out after every session, He's made himself a laminated card that is attached to a rubber band. He puts it on his front foot strap as a reminder. The card reads "DO UP YOUR VENT SCREW", He does not remove the card untill he has done up the vent and then he attaches the card to his screw driver. Is it over the top? It works for him and he's never gone sailing with out the scew being done up.
I may have been lucky but i'll leave mine in until I pop my first board, I like to learn the hard way
I wonder why there aren'e more board manufacturers using gore-tex vents like CarbonArt? Simply not an issue for scatter-brains like myself...
I'm sorry to hear too...as a woman I would have taken it to a board repairer...because I don't tinker in the shed.
hello very **** faced, hhappy australiia dy bitches.
my camera memory card has been stuck into ny computer so can not tke photos of the board.... you board gore sickos..$.
if i was to build a board i would use some sort of closed cell constructiont around the plug area so idiots like me didnot absorb the ocean into there board.
sorry about my last post few too many shandies yesterday. 
anyway here is photo of some of the damage. the crack runs all the way round and half way across the top. there is also a smaller one on the tail.
this looks repairable sure, but worse is the fact the whole board is warped and delaminated.
once again pretty stupid
thanks for the board loan offers but i yesterday purchased a second hand fanatic quad, which im looking forwrd to giving a go this weekend at the NSW wave comp, seen plenty of good comments on these boards.
i do recommend a nude chopper to anyone considering one of them. really surfs well and carves hard. works well as quad or twin.
notice the water drops. when i picked up the board a fere amount of wate poured from the crack. so plenty got in there.
What a bummer Dunko!
When I first got my boards I was paranoid re vent plugs.I had a sign on cardboard -vent plug! that I kept in my board bag on the footstraps so I was reminded everytime I opened them. I got into the habit of screwing up the plug everytime I put the fin in but today I didn't.. I think I thought I'd wait till the last minute as the board is blue & it was out in the sun so i didn't want it overheating..
I went out for an hours sail and came in and realised the plug was in but not tight..@##$
. Luckily it was only 5-7kts of wind and flat water and I didn't plane so I don't think much got in..
Someone once told me to suck on the vent to see if there was any water in it so I did and there was a little bit first go but none after..maybe water sitting in the top? Anyway I've put a wick of tissue in it after taking the plug out and the wick is dry ??..Serious lack of hot sunny days here this season so I can't see me placing it out in the sun to evaporate much.
How do you know if there is enough water in it to be a problem? What sort of extra weight can it get with water and if it delaminates can it be fixed by a repairer?
I don't really feel its a big issue today as the wind was so light and the sail a really dry one but I'm interested.
I think I thought I'd wait till the last minute as the board is blue & it was out in the sun so i didn't want it overheating... Luckily it was only 5-7kts of wind and flat water and I didn't plane so I don't think much got in..
or just mabey u leave it in tight all the time and get the same result...witch is nothing
I think I thought I'd wait till the last minute as the board is blue & it was out in the sun so i didn't want it overheating... Luckily it was only 5-7kts of wind and flat water and I didn't plane so I don't think much got in..
Unless you guarantee a new 2012 replacement board if you stuff it up...If so when can you do it?
Anyone in Newcastle ( other than Dunko.a reputable repairperson who could dry out my board? Also if it's a few days after the vent was left out that I get it to them is that too late?
a reputable repairperson who could dry out my board? Also if it's a few days after the vent was left out that I get it to them is that too late?
a reputable repairperson who could dry out my board? Also if it's a few days after the vent was left out that I get it to them is that too late?
