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Good wind is rare at the Bodensee. I've spent lots of days on the beach there waiting for wind😀. Konstanz a pretty little city, though. Lake Garda is even prettier, and you can rent windsurf gear there, if you don't mind the crowds. I used to live in Konstanz, but usually had to go to Lake Como or Lake Garda for high wind sessions, except for some fronts pulling through in spring or fall. Your end point in Italy is close to where you can take ferries to Corsica. That island is a good windsurf destination. I remember camping right next to the beach and getting blown of the water with my 3.7 m sail. Sardinia, the next island over, is even more popular for high winds, and has infrastructure for renting. The ferry ride may not fit well into the budget, but you may want to check it out, anyway.

We are looking for a wing spot in March that has good connections to Perth and Tokyo. Boracay has come up, but seems to have tons of kiters on the water in a pretty limited area, and getting past the reef seems hairy. Some good promotional sites mention Mui Ne but everything seems close to a single noisy street. Some sites in Thailand with a few hours from Bangkok looked promising on first glance but much less attractive on closer look.It's easy to find pages describing how great each spot is, but personal descriptions what mention the drawbacks are hard to find. I'd love to hear from anyone who has been to wing foil spots in the area within the last couple of years. We're planning to go for 2 weeks, and will need to rent boards.

Just in case anyone encounters a similar problem, the brand rep has come back with a suggestion on what glue to use: "the glue you want is any kind of contact cement, of the best to us is HH66". He also gave a link to one he's used before on Amazon (www.amazon.com/HH-66-Vinyl-Cement-Adhesive-Ounce/dp/B07SCV1Z6F).

Duotone offered to pay for the repair at a repair shop, and if I knew one close by or had a trip to Hatteras planned in the near future, I'd let a shop do it. Since neither is the case, and I have glued or re-glued plenty of EPA on hardboards, it's easy to do the repair myself.

Mark, this is going through a warranty claim (I bought the board new less than 4 months earlier), so the brand rep has seen the pictures. The assessment that "this is an easy repair" by injecting glue was from the brand rep.

On this board, the inserts are sitting on top of the main structure, and the EVA is glued above it all. So the inserts do stick up in the brand new board. I actually liked that because it gives me good feedback about foot placements; a friend who tried the board hated it. The board is a Skybrid Air. In the videos on the Duotone website, you can see the inserts are sticking up (not so in the pictures - seems they use graphics renderings for the pictures that do not show this, rather than actual photos). So these seem to be just pad bubbles. They are forming right next to the footstrap inserts. My take on what's happening is this: the air is leaking out very slowly (slow enough that the board maintains pressure for many days). Where the EVA is glued down well, that stops the leaking. But it's very hard to glue it down well enough around the inserts, so the air can escape there, and build bubbles that grow over time. The air cannot escape since the glue works well on top of the large strap insert plates.

If that analysis is correct, then squirting in glue should fix it, since this will leave holes through which air could escape in the future (although it may require many holes around the inserts to work well).

I had tested an identical board before buying this one. The board I tested had spent many weeks or months in a trailer, probably inflated for long times, and it did not have the problem mine has. So this could be a "Monday board" where the EPA was not put on well.Do you have any experience with attaching EPA to inflatables, and specifically which glue may work, or is not compatible?