Hi guys i have a starboard go tuffskin. The problem is that the toughskin on the nose has a lot off hair line splits. They are hardly noticeable untill when in the sun on the roof racks i notice water bubbling out off them. How would you suggest repairing a tufskin, with fibre glass resin or another product. Any ideas appreciated thanks.
Use epoxy resin or alreldite to do the repair if it's small enough. Do not use polyester resin. Polyester resin will melt your board.
I'd imagine you need to peel back or cut out the tuff skin coating and assess the damage from there.
Hmmm sounds like they are thru to the core and/or been there a while
Have you weighed it and compared against factory spec?
If it is too heavy it may need that nose sawn off and hung upside down for a couple of weeks (months?) before starting repairs....
+1 for Moby - don't go anywhere near it with "fibreglass resin" (polyester) it will need epoxy, lest you melt it. Search for the board repair threads here and check out boardlady.com
If it is an old board in knocked about condition, it may be sufficient to drill a hole in the nose and wick the moiture out with cotton rope or paper towels over a week or two, grind out all those cracks (like with a thin angle grinder blade) to about 5mm deep and 2-3mm wide, then fill them all with epoxy and slap a couple of layers of glass/epoxy over the top. Not pretty, but fixed.
If you want to make it look as new and hardly noticeable it will be considerably more work (see boardlady)
Thanks guys. Have been letting it wick dry through the vent screw with paper towel. Havent noticed dampness on it for a while but was really wet at the beggining. It doesnt hve to look flash wont be selling it just want to make it last for as lomg as i can so your methods sound like the way to go. Is 150 litre board want to go smaller in future and keep it for those drifter days or for the missus. Thanks again.
, the sun is not an option. Leave it in the garage and put a hair dryer near the wicks (say 50cm away), just for general air flow, for an hour on each wick each night
Yea there was other issues. There was a chip in the fin box which i plugged with araldite and some other small damage on other sections which i filled with araldite. Also it had what look to me like the non slip coating redone and where thay masked up they cut through the tufskin in places during the unmasking. I didnt notice any off this for the first three months off use so it had a fair chance off getting water in it. Also sussed on the vent screw o ring I am changing that as well.
Try to hire a vacuum pump, drill some small holes in the damaged area, mask up the nose with plastic foil and paper towels under the foil,
Connect up the vac pump, dont forget to take out the vent plug and watch the paper towels fill up with moisture after tuning on the pump.
Run the pump for a few days, add a bottle to the vac hose incase a flood of water comes out of the board and you want to save the pump from failing.
