Help please! i smashed my Kalama at the alley this afternoon it has a big crease in the middle and is cracked at the rails.Any advice on how to repair or any one on the Goldy you can recommend to repair and whats the likely cost?It was a great sesssion untill i got smashed.Also if Jakes old man is reading this sorry once again mate for nearly killing you.I hope your ankle isn,t to sore. Hope these pics loaded.
I was out that the Ally this arvo with you demoing the Naish 9'6 (unreal). I watched you head in but didn't think this would happen. Bummer! I know a guy who may be able to help you. Anthony Dietz mb 0434273549.Give him a call and he may be able to help you. He works alot with epoxsy boards. Cheers Wazza
thanks boys i think ill get some one to do it i dont know the first thing about glassing , if you want jake ill pay you to fix it for me if your keen.Just send me a private message give me an approx. price.Glad your old man,s not hurt i felt really bad about that.It could have been a lot worse.
Whoever you get to fix it make sure they drain/steam any water out of it, if not, come summer time you may get some unexpected bubbles appearing on your board. You must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, those Kalamas are a fairly thick board! From previous experience, when the rails have broken like that you pretty much have to completely snap it and re-join together with some carbon dowls if you don't want it happening again.......good luck.
Ouch ... i smashed my kalama pretty bad on some rocks out surfing the other week (not as bad as that, but still pretty bad) it smashed the rail about the size of a tennis ball , fairly big open ding ! I dried it out in the sun all day then used two pack epoxy resin, looks ugly but seems to have work
Don't know about the rest of us on the forum, but i wouldn't send my board to some who has been playing around with repairs for many years. Just doesn't sound good.
aus301 said...
I am sure Greeny at SurfFX would know someone who can do the job as well, they have been playing with wind surfers made from Epoxy for many years.
i actually dont know no how it happened , i did not realize untill i come in.It wasnt on rocks or in shallow water , i did get smashed by a closeout section ,the lip hit me hard and i was held under for a what seemed like a long time.Im still debating wheather it was worth it caus the wave was probably the best i have ridden , untill it closed out , i got a real late take off and got some great speed down the line.Spewing though ill be out of action for a while.Probably have to pull the short board out of mothballs. Thamks for all the advice.
Don't know about the rest of us on the forum, but i wouldn't send my board to some who has been playing around with repairs for many years. Just doesn't sound good.
aus301 said...
I am sure Greeny at SurfFX would know someone who can do the job as well, they have been playing with wind surfers made from Epoxy for many years.
So how about we just say Greeny was working with techniques like vacuum bagging, using divinycell and building epoxy boards back when Jake here was still pissing in his pants.
Snake pissing in his pants ... that would have been yesterday .... right after that making that super late drop on that wide 7ft bomb yesterday arvo .... personally I soiled my wettie. Teatree sorry bout the board but hey ... you gotta admit it was serious fun yesterday arvo!!
Well teatree to have your board looking like that (without just bailing from being caught inside) shows some serious commitment looks like she got caught up in the lip and good old mother nature gave her a thrashing. Broke heaps of shortboards from pulling int barrells (closeouts) but thats the first sup i seen looking like that ! Badluck but good on ya for charging
looks like she got caught up in the lip and good old mother nature gave her a thrashing. Broke heaps of shortboards from pulling int barrells (closeouts) but thats the first sup i seen looking like that ! Badluck but good on ya for charging
