continuing on with the unfortunate airborne JP thread from earlier with everyone's experiences.
this morning rocked up to the beach, it was windy but not too bad, removed the straps and was reaching for my board when whammo, huge gust of wind lifted my lovely carbon board with effective ease, projecting it 15m down the road onto the nose, not much a board bag can do with that.
I sullenly waked to it, removed the board bag and inspected that which I was sure to be carnage, checked almost the whole board and was feeling pretty food until I got round to the left hand rail towards the nose...
GUTTED, have it in now to be repaired, hope the colours can be matched, he was scratching his head to be fair, but he is a good repairer / shaper... so time will tell.
On a plus side got to take out a carbon JP 8'10 and was well impressed, just trying to figure how to change my 9'2 for that now...
Go the airborne boards
Have had two boards take off when with the kids, when they were younger. Same as you, sudden gust, putting them onto roof rack, in our case. Been thinking, there must be a simple strap system, like a carry strap, that you could hook around yourself, to leave your hands free, while removing or placing tie down straps. Any ideas out there?
