A mate needed a softboard for his daughter & when I offered him mine he offered me this

Its a circa 1985 - 1990 Santosha shaped by Mark Ogram dims 6'6 x 19 x 2. The 2 inches is maintained from the rocker to the front fins & the photo's don't do the depth & awesome'ness of the channels justice. Its only got a few light pressures and a very small delamination on the bottom Santosha decal which is also has a small hole.

I want to clean this board up & ride it, I reckon it will be sick. My friend said it rides great, but he has another old board that is his favourite.

Obviously it needs a light sand & from memory these speed finish boards were basically boards which were sanded & then didn't have a filler or gloss coat.

Considering the glass is so old I'm worried it might be brittle & break easily. So I'm tempted to have it glassed with like 1 ounce glass or something. At the very least I want a fresh coat of resin on it.

What do you guys think, will the age of the board make it weak? What do yuz reckon I should do?

I wanna ride this thing so bad, but not until I know its strong.

I would give it a light sand all over with a gentle orbital sander with around 180 grit - enough to get it back to clean glass - try not to go down to the cloth. Then two light brush coats of resin at 90 degrees to each other - ie one long ways and one cross ways to fill all the little micro fractures etc. and then rub back with 180/320/600/800/1200 grit wet and dry for a 'speed finish'. 2-3 days careful work.

Good luck - I reckon it will clean up quite well.

Wicked! Yeah, I'd be giving it a once over just as you've described. Maybe not as far as a glass job but a sand and recoat for sure.

Gpa wants you to do it properly I never do,,,

light sand/near stress fractures on tail/near fins than just fill in this area with really light coat almost artist/pencil brush wet/n dry and ride.

apart from the stress fractures fibreglass gets stronger as it gets older and older it is the sun or chips/shatters that create weak spots.

id ride it as it is

Looks great, fix dings and surf it!

Cheers guys...ok I'll give it a bit of a sand & a light coat of resin

Spent a couple of hours dewaxing, light sanding & patching a couple of holes today. Didn't go too hard on the reno coz I'm gonna surf it as a novelty board every now & again for fun. Not gonna hang it on a wall...but yeah, fang'n to surf it