Last night after good sail I swung the board so as not to hit the car and crashed it into the corner of the garage door . Finger size gape to the foam , ouch !
Not long ago wind grabbed the board and swung it into the tow ball , tow ball size hole in to the foam. Same board looking sad and that's just me being spastic out of the water.
Im sure someone can beat that ?

best mate saw his brand new 8.6 OD take off from the beach and land perfectly on my neatly upwards positionned foil.... ( I looked away for a moment....)
did the same as you too, swung a brand new board just coming out of the shop into the corner of the wall.....

Not me but sailing off Collaroy Beach back in the day the shark alarm went off. Kiwi bloke (petrified of sharks) stacked his out side gybe. Board was upside down in water. He panicked & leapt onto the board laying full length. When he tried to get off his harness hook pulled a fist sized chunk of foam and fiberglass right off the bottom of his board. best laugh we had in ages!

Stuck for a 490 i chucked an old one piece 490 into my 8m Warp. Cranked it down, tensioned the outhaul. Stood it up, checked it. Yep looks ok n rotates. Carried it to the board. Clicked the euro pin together. Then "BANG" the mast blew up just as i clicked extension to base. I mustve jumped about 8ft in the air. Luckily No damage to the sail. Just my boardies n my mast.

My cousin lent me one of his boards when I was learning, while rigging up the wind threw it up into the air and hurled onto the rock wall , amazingly I only had to repair three dings that night! Was still quiet a horror show and didnt get to go out for a run! Nowadays im always glancing at my board to make sure the wind hasnt carried it away!

I had one board blow of the car racks in a concrete car park. It wasn't bagged so ended up with a big crack on the side. Fortunately it was a cheap 22nd hand board.

i had another fall of the overhead rack in my garage, it was in a bag, so only got a few bruises.

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Imax1 said..
Last night after good sail I swung the board so as not to hit the car and crashed it into the corner of the garage door . Finger size gape to the foam , ouch !

Windsurfing 101, unpack your gear before beers

Yep

Backed into garage with boards on roof - tore roofracks off the car so imagine the boards!!!
Yep, fin damage only :)
Internal, who knows......

I'd just built a board for a mate, for some reason he walked around the trestles, picked up the board, took one big step towards the shaping room door, and tripped over the bracing bar between the trestles, brand new board went flying across the floor. Luckily it was in exactly the right place to get fixed.

funny stories...mine was tying the board to the roof and i dropped the tie downstrap, told my self not to leave board un attended!! didn't listen !!!!!!!!!! went the quick look and grab and off she sailed into the air to happily land with a thud against a winnebago in the carpark,,shocked the person in the van big time , who came out guns blazing! got off lightly no damage to van luckily

Do I win ??

perhaps, but we need the story

Back in the day, my Bombora trifin blew off the car, flew 20 foot through the air and smashed down to the Tarmac. It then rolled at least 20 times along the roughest bit of road then came to a rest against a tree.

No damage.

FamIly trip to Perth, I had improvised a rack on my trailer and had a few boards strapped on it. The racks were too widely spaced and I lost a board down the highway. Didn't realise until a car overtook me waving frantically. Thankfully, it didn't end up in someone's windscreen. Found it in the bushes a few km's back with only one puncture wound from a stick. Board was Ratz's old Isonic 111 that I bought off him for a couple of cartons; served me well for another year or so of abuse after that

Boards are made for the water, which is why the safest place for a board is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, in the water.
All my worst damage on any board I've ever had, all the way back to the late 60's, has had nothing to do with the water.

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Mastbender said.. >>>
All my worst damage on any board I've ever had, all the way back to the late 60's, has had nothing to do with the water.

My worst damage was water caused, waves slammed the board onto big rocks. That used to happen a lot before leg ropes!

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decrepit said..
perhaps, but we need the story

that's been driven over for sure.....


sloshy?

only ego damage but I seen Gregob get shrink wrapped behind his sail once , looked similar to this -minus the breasts

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Mark _australia said..

decrepit said..
perhaps, but we need the story

that's been driven over for sure.....


sloshy?

The noise would be special .
Unique even .

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HotBodMon said..
only ego damage but I seen Gregob get shrink wrapped behind his sail once , looked similar to this -minus the breasts

I did that once in 1 foot of water , nearly fkn drowned , scared the sh.t outta me !

and just where do we buy these shrink wrapped perfect specimens....?

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Mark _australia said..
and just where do we buy these shrink wrapped perfect specimens....?

Specimens r us ?

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Mark _australia said..
and just where do we buy these shrink wrapped perfect specimens....?

19 Orlando Street , Coffs Harbour.. .. Limited edition

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Imax1 said..

HotBodMon said..
only ego damage but I seen Gregob get shrink wrapped behind his sail once , looked similar to this -minus the breasts

I did that once in 1 foot of water , nearly fkn drowned , scared the sh.t outta me !

Same !! Twisted in lines also ,Fortunately for Gregob it was on the way down to the waters edge when a long lasting strong gust blew and tombstoned him against a guard rail. Nothin I could do but stare in amusement

Might not count as big damage, but still hilarious: Years ago a friend of ours fired a flare just for the sake of it and the whole beach was full of cheers, even more so when it came down again and burned a neat, perfectly round hole through my father's sail.

Put my board on the roof racks in the driveway to dry out. It was the only sunny spot.
An hour later I jumped in the car and drove off. I barely noticed the clunk as it flew off and bashed into the kerb. I was half way down the road before it occured to me what it might have been.

I find that if you repair a ding well enough that you can't see it you eventually forget what a gormless twat you are.

Reversed over my brand new boom ......

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Sparky said..
Back in the day, my Bombora trifin blew off the car, flew 20 foot through the air and smashed down to the Tarmac. It then rolled at least 20 times along the roughest bit of road then came to a rest against a tree.

No damage.

Same thing with an old Bombora X-IT where I was in such a rush to get to the beach I forgot to tie it on. First corner I got to it slid off the roof and after the fin snapped off it continued to slide down the road ending up with barely a scratch on it.

Near miss. Was rearranging the van and had absent-mindedly placed my Rocket 105 carefully on the nature strip. Got distracted chatting to the neighbour across the road. The kerbside pickup fossickers were placing it their trailer when my neighbour spotted them. They put it back of course but then gave us the look as if we were the thieves!

Lucky, he spotted them. If not, when I'd finally noticed it missing I'd have had no idea where I'd left it. i'd still be kicking myself.

many years ago at 17 & alot of maccas shifts took my brand new gaastra race sail & mast out for it's maiden voyage in gusty 30+knot westerly, derigging wind huge gust & swung a good 120 deg picked me & sail up & threw us across carpark (i wasnt letting go). Broke mast, shredded luff, car & ego, driver was sitting in car & shat himself when mohawked punk kid & sail got plastered across his windscreen out of no where. Mast broke in a way so that i had to break it again in 2 spots to get it out to avoid completely destroying sail, thankfully driver decided not to pursue me for damages while watching me bash sail against metal pole to break mast, guess I looked pretty shattered... or crazy.

& this is why i dont kite

& bloody hell masts are hard to break when you are trying.

I think my only other daft moment was a few years ago I decided to throw my big slalom board up on storage rack... throw??? Of course it returned to sender, despatched me with the same contempt I showed it & crushed the rail.

oh & learning to use/regulate pressures in nail gun not the wisest idea around sailboards.

Not the worst damage, maybe the worst place to be without a ding repair kit. On holiday in Mauritius, storing all the gear on the grass behind the hotel overnight. Failed to notice the coconut tree...