Having a surf at my local point this morning, dead low tide about 5- 6 foot (on the macho scale) - sitting a bit deep with another fella - feeling a bit bullet proof after the weekend

Got a set wave that developed an ugly step in it right over the suck rock and got flipped so I kicked board away from me and the lip must have landed right on the center of it [}:)] Buggar!!

This thing was so solid too, tonnes of glass. If I ever make another one it will hav a carbon stringer cut into it for the full length of the board.

You have to love the way the ocean will kick your @rse when you least expect it - at least it wasn't my back!

That's a shame Goatie , thats why when I got my big girl made it has a double stringer.

Rob

Thanks Guys!

That double stringer poly looks the go for a Gun, Rob. What blank would you use though? Or is it eps with a stringer glued in?

Simondo said...

Serious bummer !

In my opinion, you definately want stingers in the big wave boards. It adds weight, so what !! You need the strength.

The board in my logo/avatar is actually a triple stringer. I have another normal surfboard gun with a 1/2 inch red hardwood stringer.

Big waves are about 'point and shoot and hope' rather than worrying about 'swing weight from stringers' !!

Totally agree, have a 6'10 Aloha with a 1/4" redwood stringer. Just a bloody hassle when you're making it yourself.

Double bugger

Better get busy, if not borrow my 10er for the north trip might be a bit big though

Hey Hilly, thanks for the offer mate very generous but I wouldn't be game to borrow someones' SUP like that - unless it was AA's....LOL

Hey Phil, I will probably fix it at some stage, have done heaps of shorties and a couple of goats with pretty good results, bit of a pain of a job though[}:)]

dude thats crap

i wanted to have a go and snap it myself

beat me to it

maybe a full carbon inlay would be better than a stringer?
or dont fall off

I think if you are going to push the boundaries you need timber stingers , the only sups I have snapped have been stringerless (3 off) got some new boards on the way , all will have timber.

Rob

good luck for your new board rob
Last week I snapped my green 9'10 I had in PNG
it had a stringer in it + extra glass + extra glass again just on the rail just in case...
Did'nt make any difference, it snapped.
What else can you do? I ordered exactly the same...
What you need is luck!

loco4olas said...

1 cubic metre of water = 1 tonne - go figure on the amount of water in sizeable waves-pretty hard to make a board that'll be unbreakable AND one you'd wanna' surf.

Commiserations-don't bother wasting the time and energy repairing-go for a MKII-onward and upward.....

what he said

hurry up