Statue of Limitations?????

Get them all back, especially the Friersons, Bill shapes great boards that LAST.

For the "Stashees" you have a semblance of a contact with - GET THEM BACK.
For the others - even if it's been years - at least TRY. Or as Yoda would say - "there is no try, only do or do not".

I had a landlocked buddy's board for 4 years, when he asked, I gave it up. Now it wasn't near the same shape as when stashed, but I justified riding it for the "space" fee and Epoxy supplies to keep it alive. I loved that board - but he was just happy to get it back sea worthy.

Even if you get 50% back, you're ahead of the game. If they keep them - they're A holes and you're better off not knowing them anymore.

 

It's statute, lol.

 

Why do people hold on to old boards? I would get on craigslist and start over. I was talking the other day with a ding repair guy who gets all these old boards to repair. He said most of them were in such bad shape he didn't know how they were still ridable. Anway, anything over a couple years your sol.

 

if they are not nice boards to begin with, if you buddies have been riding em for five years they are probably worse now. if they are nice get them your friends know the board aint theirs.

 

seems really complex.

 

I have had "friends", like you, that leave there sh*t at my place to never be back to pick it up.

Call me and @ss hole for getting rid of the stuff they lift, but I call you an air head for leaving your stuff all over the east coast with no accountability.

Nothing personal towards you but if you left something, somewhere, and havent been in contact with the person, and it can reasonably be assumed you will not be back in the fore see able future.

Chalk it up as an L.

 

I would try and get those boards back. If you aren't really friends with them anymore then you shouldn't worry about calling them out to get your stuff back. Who knows you might be surprised. You might get some of your boards back and some old friends as well.

 

I have had close friends keep their boards at my place over the years. In the past few years I have tired to get back in touch with them to give it back while trying to clean up my place. I would say, that if the person is honest and if their friendship with you has any amount of weight, then they should still have it. Although, i would not expect them in the same condition... as there is a "space fee"= free to surf=possible dings... I have one board from a friend who moved to ohio years ago- have not heard from him since, and he has not surfed since yearly the 2000's...the board is still waiting him...

 

Go for it man, nothing to lose, because if you haven't had them in the last few years, they already are "lost" but if you can get one back then that's one more board in your quiver

 

I agree. I have a board at a friend's house in HI and do not want him to feel obligated to keep it if it is inconvenient. I've told him to please use it or pass it along if he needs the space. I look at it as a privilage not an obligation.

 

Let em go. you left them for someone else to look after, trip over or work around for over 5 years... They might have been using them. I would have sold them if they were in my way... If yu are in the area stop in and use them, but leave them there (if you "friends" want them) because they're not yours anymore.

 

good boards are like good books, you read it/ride it and then pass it on for someone else to experience. There's no harm in revisiting an "old book" a couple years later but don't be surprised if that person has passed it on to someone else or ridden that old board into the ground.

 

You should get in touch just to "free" them of this issue too. Maybe you get your boards back, maybe you don't, but you should let them know something.....like "thanks for keeping them so long", "glad to hear they were loved", "can't blame you for selling it", "let me get those out of your way". Something.....anything. It's not just about getting your boards back.....it's about cleaning up after yourself.

Now get on it and let us know what happens.

 

He's only in college........ Give him time to get it right......

 

It never hurts to ask, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.

 

Well put YDM

 

On the opposite end of this issue. Had a friend stash a board at my place for two years. Returned it unridden and now it's back after another two years. He hadn't ridden it at all and now "gave" it to me. What to do? Do I ride it? Baby it? He's moved inland and is unlikely to ask for it back, but I'd hate to tell him it got destroyed. What a curse. It's epoxy though, so I'm unlikely to completely destroy it.