I was reading an advert in Windsurf for the latest JP boards. the text basically said that they had carbon/carbon Kevlar boards and that you could see this through the gel coat. They also went on to say that "other" boards have black glassfibre to look like carbon. I wasn't entirely sure if this was the case until I went to fix what i thought was a small "problem" with my new board*. It turns out that my "double sandwich" board has absolutely no divinycell on the rails in the nose area - it's straight fibreglass over foam! So what could have been a small crack ended up in a 20 cm long split that i had to cut out and re-glass over. My concern is that this will happen everytime the mast and board comes together. Not ideal for a wave/freestlye board!




Not sure if this is a common thing with boards, but i know my RRD FSW was a lot better constructed. Anyone else had this situation with their boards?

Anyway rant over.

*for liable reasons i won't mention the make.