Help! My Surfboard is About to Drown

Your first sentence makes no sense.

A little care goes a long way. All you need to do is plug your holes earlier. Thats not neglect its common sense if you understand how surfboards work.

 

It's just a surfboard. U are a surfer. U are more important.

Now u know.

Hopefully the board still has life. Looking forward to the pictures. If you can get one of the delam. And one of the whole board both top and bottom.

 

take that one to edisto with u and jam on the knee deep breakers

 

Whoa...what? Please explain...I bet Hank could make a copy no problem with US Blank same or similar density. We're not talking EPSvsPU here...

To keep this on track...fix it and keep it...but get another one if you love it that much...shouldn't be all that difficult. Get a sanded finish and no tint to keep the price down...

 

the buoyancy of a similar sized US blank is basically right in the middle between Clark foam and EPS...closer to EPS, if anything. Significant enough to throw the OP's current dims way off.

 

You're in the weeds. Are you heavier now than when you got the board? Get the extra float.

 

Yeah, this conversation is getting too far into the weeds. I'm betting a new Hanky will work just as good, Clark Foam or no.

 

theoretically, you could...but my original point was do you expect a local shaper to be able to accurately pull that off?

Tech talk aside, I tried to get a Clark foam board duplicate made and it came out a massive cork. Neither I, nor the local shaper, had any clue between the differences of Clark foam and US blanks (he was young enough to probably have never even shaped w/ Clark).

Guess it depends on how fastidious you are. I, personally, would start from scratch.

 

Wow very cool board. worth saving. Take it to a dingo.

 

That's your remedy. If u want to color match either mix pigment into the resin or airbrush when your done. Are u good at fiberglassing?

 

that's a nice airbrush/pinstripe, so I see why you might not want to let it go.

The still open (and dirty) dings on the tail tell me you're not ready for a new board...why haven't you fixed them? Unfortunately, the foam on that board is beyond toast, imo.

First, you should buy a ding repair kit (resin, cloth, q-cell and sand paper) and practice on that old board. You wont be able to fix the delam in the center, but you'll build up some skills and confidence with the rail dings for when you do buy a new board and inevitably get dings in it. I recommend an epoxy resin kit because it can be used on polyester resin boards, but has much less toxic fumes.

EDIT: btw, your leash's "rail saver" (flat band of poly fabric) is on wrong. The whole point of a rail saver is to keep the thin little attachment rope from slicing into the rail. Attach the rail saver as close to the leash plug as possible.

 

Is a cool board rough lesson to learn don't take care of things and soon they will be gone