I just noticed a couple of hair-line cracks along my left rail.
There’s one about 300mm long in the middle and a shorter one towards the nose.
I sanded the smaller front one back a bit to see if I can determine what is actually cracked, but not game to go too far at this stage, without getting advice from you experts out there.
This board is only 6 months old and I have no idea of what sort of stress it can have had on it (other than me surfing it nearly every day – but we haven’t even had any serious surf since I’ve had it anyway)
I just weighed it to make sure it hasn’t sucked in any water and it is fine.






Can anyone advise what I should do now please? It is a 2014 Allwave.

Take it back to the shop you bought it from and ask their advice?
Thats always the first point of call rather than forum "experts".

That will be caused by body impacting the deck near the rail or the board hitting the sand in which case you will also likely have a crack and or abrasion near the rail on the tuck on the bottom of the board. Really common. There is a glass ply lap in that location and that's usually where the crack will present itself. As mentioned above you should always take that back to your retailer before tampering with the board and let them have their repairer investigate. One way or another the damage will be resolved in a timely manner.
FYI in terms of my expertise - along with reef, car park dings and damaged fin boxes this is one of the most common repairs I do - every day.

Thnx guys, appreciate quick response, but I am in 1770 - about 5 hours drive to retailer
I will talk to them, but this is a replacement board already for a previous problem board.

MOB - if it's what you seem to think it is.....
1. Is it safe to continue to use in meantime, or should I cease completely until fixed
2. If its an easy fix, can I have a go myself ? I am in middle of building a wooden board and have plenty of epoxy & f/glass

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Thnx guys, appreciate quick response, but I am in 1770 - about 5 hours drive to retailer
I will talk to them, but this is a replacement board already for a previous problem board.

MOB - if it's what you seem to think it is.....
1. Is it safe to continue to use in meantime, or should I cease completely until fixed
2. If its an easy fix, can I have a go myself ? I am in middle of building a wooden board and have plenty of epoxy & f/glass

Fix it before using it for sure

I'd just put a sticker or some ding tape on that..

I've seen you out there mate, you're just catching too many waves that's all!

You're probably correct Brenno, I had one day recently where I did Workmans, Main beach & my home beach - pretty well all day in water.
My boards are probably used about 5 times the average supper so I gotta accept the wear & tear?
Maybe I need to try cheaper brands next time? Will be interesting to see how my wooden one goes (if it actually works)

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You're probably correct Brenno, I had one day recently where I did Workmans, Main beach & my home beach - pretty well all day in water.
My boards are probably used about 5 times the average supper so I gotta accept the wear & tear?
Maybe I need to try cheaper brands next time? Will be interesting to see how my wooden one goes (if it actually works)

Maybe there's something in what you say about cheaper brands mate, I'm going through these expensive ones like underpants.
I'd offer to lend you a board but that sounds like it might be like throwing a lamb to the wolves!
Just jokes mate, if you get stuck while you figure out what your going to do with yours, give me a yell.
Might be healthy for you to try out something different anyway.
See you out on the water

Thnx DJ, I'm going to try the ding tape and keep a close eye on it.
Just ordered a roll on-line (Grom didn't have any)
If it gets worse I'll worry about it then.
In meantime, I'll start start saving for a new addition (probably try cheaper ones?), plus finish off wood baby.
Been surfing the old (2 piece) allwave 9'6 I stitched back together this morning - it's going well - so far
Thnx Brenno

You could get yourself some of the thin super glue(only in hobby and model shops).this stuff when applied to one end of the crack will wick its way right along the crack,do a couple of applications.You can also just dust baking soda into the crack(getting rid of any excess by carefully dusting it or a gentle puff) and then add the thin super glue .the baking soda acts as a filler And the glue spreads along the crack.this does not work with the cheap superglue that is commonly around in general stores,it has to be the thin quality gear used for aero modelling ,it is about the consistency of water and usually comes with an applicator tube..Hope that helps, you could tape over the top after doing this but not really needed.