One day, hopefully soon, I will learn to leave the bad surf alone and play video games. I couldn't help myself today and was surfing shorebreak, turned on a small wave and felt my fin dig into the sand. Sure enough it broke the fin and pulled out one of the plugs. I dropped it off to get fixed, but I don't have anything to surf till then.
heres a suggestion go to a surf shop and rent a board until you get yours back i know it wont be the same as your own board but at least youll have something to ride if we ever get waves.
that blows man i did that awhile back ago before i lived on the coast so i had to use a rental for the long weekend....and it was def white and orange....one fugly stick
Thanks for the suggestion, but I can't afford to drop 20 or 25 bucks every time I want to go surfing. I'm working and borrowing my way through college. I am working on borrowing a longboard to hold me over.
you can also keep calling the guy who's fixing your board and ask how long it would be and do it over and over it bugs them thats what i did once and the dude got my board back to me in like a week.
that's a long time for ding repair.... the shop i work at, turnaround time is 3-4 days... we fix 20-30 boards a week... even more if there is a good swell.
Learn ding repair yourself Cheaper, faster, you know its gonna be done right (unless you're retarded)
the board i broke was epoxy so it took the guy a little longer to repair it also the repair wasnt a ding the nose broke off while surfing shorebreak.
I've taken boards to 3 different shops (Aussie Island, Hotwax, and The Cove) and the turn around time was 1-2 weeks at all of them. Most of the shops around here use the same guy. I can do quick repairs with sun cure, I'm ok with fiberglass but my brother is pretty good with it and fixes most of our stuff. I don't want to mess around with fins and mess something up though, so I take that to someone who knows what they are doing.
i take all my boards to sweetwater since i live close to it but the guy that does the repairs for sweetwater is good with any boards but he does his repairs on a first come first served basis.
17th street goes through Dave Endress who does Pride boards and he does really really good work. turn around time is a week at the very most.
eclipse just wondering what shop did you take your surfboard to cause if it was sweetwater robert byrd who does the repairs for sweetwater will get your board back to you a week to two weeks from when you dropped it off. But i dont know about the other shops repaur guys.
Screw ding repairs...................just get a shorebreak board and beat the **** out of it and dont get it fixed. Obviously, buy something old and used up already......not like you need a performance board in that crap anyways.......
I just had a few spots on my log repaired by Shawn O'Donnel through Surf City and he did a superb job with it. However, conway on here had a repair done by him right near the fins and it had cracked again in the same place in a pretty short period of time. It was an ancient board though so who knows.
