I got a new short foil board a couple of weeks ago, and noticed some nose damage today during the 4th session on the board (with 2 of them being mostly slog practice). This must have happened during the one breach - nose dive crash today, which was pretty un-spectacular. I did not even check the nose afterwards, even though the board is cheap SUP-style construction (no sandwich). Really not a big crash.

It would not have been a big deal to just fix the nose, either. But when I peeled back some of the damage to see if the board needs drying first, I noticed an area that did not seem to have any fiberglass under the paint:

The yellow-brown stuff seems to be just filler without any glass, and crumbles quite easily. Most of the stuff around it has glass and none of the filler.

I've contacted the store where I bought the board 2 weeks ago, but have not heard back yet. Based on past experience, it's quite possible that this will lead nowhere.

My question: is this indeed a construction issue? Or should I just ignore it, repair the damage, and hope for the best? I did buy the board to learn wing foiling, where damage in crashes should be no issue, but I'd like to use it with a rig, too. But I wonder what would happen in a bigger crash.