Anyone know of an epoxy board fixer on the Mid North Coast of NSW (ideally Coffs Harbour)?

Catapult into nose job, right thru boards nose longitudinally bout 15cm long

Cheers

Ding repairs, snaps, creases, fin replacements and regloss. Polyester & Epoxy
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4/23 Newcastle Drive,
Toormina via Coffs Harbour NSW 2452 Rod Smith
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Off topic slightly..... sorry to hear about the damage dism. Been having a bit of the same recently.

Nose protectors - does anyone know of a way to make a half decent looking/working nose protector. After trying to purchase one from Starboard without much luck figured it best I try and make my own out of foam and/or rubber and glue it to the nose with some kind of glue. Just not sure what kind of glue would work best that wont be permenant as I may want to remove it further down the track.

Have tried the rubber deflector (Jeez's knob or whatever it's called) things but didn't like it much. Takes up too much room in the mast track and I hear they place a lot of pressure on joints and also the track itself.

ejmack,
Try some deck padding, or even old wetty material, cut to shape and siliconed (or sikaflex) to top of nose, you can also use contact adhesive, it will soften with heat when you want to remove it. I've seen the 'pool-noodle' idea, and not overly impressed, also I have a nose protector for my xcite , but have since removed it now that I don't damage the nose anymore. It's now hanging in the shed.

Problem with nose protectors is you can still crack it under the foam and not know about it... and thus be getting water in.

I would (1) try to develop a catapault techique that goes more downwind than forward (2) put up with damage soemtimes and learn how to fix it. Buy some glass, epoxy and q-cell for $40 all up and it will do repairs on all your boards for the next 20yrs.

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Mark _australia said...

Problem with nose protectors is you can still crack it under the foam and not know about it... and thus be getting water in.

I would (1) try to develop a catapault techique that goes more downwind than forward (2) put up with damage soemtimes and learn how to fix it. Buy some glass, epoxy and q-cell for $40 all up and it will do repairs on all your boards for the next 20yrs.

Excellent advice, it's not that hard to do your own repairs - just make sure you buy epoxy resin and not polyester resin. (yep, I learnt that the hard way )

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ejmack said...


Nose protectors - does anyone know of a way to make a half decent looking/working nose protector. After trying to purchase one from Starboard without much luck figured it best I try and make my own out of foam and/or rubber and glue it to the nose with some kind of glue. Just not sure what kind of glue would work best that wont be permenant as I may want to remove it further down the track.

Chek this out
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=34377&whichpage=2&SearchTerms=nose%2Cprotector

Cheers all. Good advice. Have done a few repairs to date, nothing too serious just surface cracks from mast impacts.

I hear sheeting in hard is a good way to reduce mast to nose contact when about to catapult. Remembering/teaching yourself to do it in that split second might be another thing.

cheers ducati!

Talk to your repairer how they are going to fix it before getting them to do the job.

If it is a multi layered modern board are they going to replace the layers of high density foam and glass/carbon such as how the board lady does?

A friend had a board repaired, fairly new board with typical modern layup (carbon wood pvc etc) - they just cut the damage out, put a few layers of glass over the polystyrene core then bogged it up, faired then sprayed.

Many board repairers are from the old school surfboard repair crew - most know nothing about modern windsurf board construction.

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ejmack said...
I hear sheeting in hard is a good way to reduce mast to nose contact when about to catapult. Remembering/teaching yourself to do it in that split second might be another thing.

Yep, and I also find that sheeting in hard when I'm catapulting flips the rig so I land underneath it instead of on top of it, which is nice.