I have the same problem except it is a snapped board... was hoping to make some kind of crazy coffee table or furniture out of it

any ideas??

Lawn chairs, seen a model once. One part is the seat, the other the back.

If it's a big oldie, I put them up in Gumtree for $5-10, have seen people pick them up for floaters for the kids at the cottage. One used them for floaters for the dock at a yacht club.
And so on.

sacrafice them to the Huey

A guy had a floating terase, he lives by the river that flows near my house....he used 5 old boards and made a 3,5x3,5m terase...it was holding great for about 5 years, but last year he had it on the roof when the flood came :/

What about new windsurf boards

AJEaster said...

Sausage - HTF did you manage that? (flew off the racks?)

All the gory details here gpsteamchallenge.com.au/sailor_session/show?date=2012-01-09&team=20

Man I wish it flew off the racks as my insurance probably would have covered it.

Mark,
I assume it wouldn't be worth the effort to repair? Any thoughts or donations would be appreciated.

Prawnhead said...

AJEaster said...

Sausage - HTF did you manage that? (flew off the racks?)

no... he probably just rolled up with a bunch of his old mates down to his local spot on the best north easter of the year and managed to upset the heavy locals ...
how did you go with the speed reading the other day ?
cheers

The bloody thing ran out of batteries just as I started. On Wednesday I sailed in the surf at Wallabi point near old bar and got around 25kn which is not bad in a bumpy ocean on wave gear. Check my track out as i know you are interested (7th post down)

http://www.gpsteamchallenge.com/sailor_session/show?date=2012-01-04&team=49

best speed so far on the new gear is 32.71kn in the river behind the tavern at SWR - nice and flat - yummy.

Sausage I'd fix it, if it is less than a couple of years old (ie: was worth something before the incident)

Might not be jumpable but could go another few years.

$100 and a week of evenings is the garage, worth a shot

EDIT: just saw your link - you hit a FISH and snapped the board? That could remove the fin or crack around finbox, yes. Snap it, no way.
I call manufacturing fault. Is there glass around the snapped area that is obviously not wet out with resin?
If so I say go warranty - even if it is out of warranty period as it is a defect that would lead to the board not lasting as long as a reasonable person would expect.

Snapped glass looks a bit similar to glass that is not wet out. Hard to explain....
Glass looks white, but when wet out it is almost clear. When snapped that whiteness comes back at the edges of the break. You need to look in the laminate back away from the area of breakage.
See if there is an area where the glass is not adhered to the core or divinycell well, like you could slip a thin trimmer blade or something in there.
If that is the case, peel a bit back and you may find a significant white patch that is adjacent to the break.
IE it is expected the glass is white at the break itself, you are looking for it a couple of inches away, and on the corresponding other side of the break also, which would suggest that is where it started.

Hope that makes sense

jsnfok said...

EAT THEM [}:)]

oh thats how you got so big?

Could even use half the mast as a mega stringer up the guts of it.

Circle of life again

It's always sad. Sometimes one just has to figure that Aeolus has other plans for old windsurfing boards. One day all boards will be together.