how much gear have you broken in the last few weeks ? me:
1.trashed a panel in north ice with harness hook
2. sliced bootie and foot on sharp rock/oyster
3.broke screw in waveboard fin
4.snapped uni
5. broken boom clamp
6.bent mast(sleeve/ferrule)
7.baton into luff sleeve, pryde wave
8.webbing broke, mast thru top of luff sleeve, of naish redline.

OK, You win Richie

Punched a hole in one of my sails and broke a boom.

1. Smashed the nose of my freeride board.
2. Ripped a footstrap screw out of my speed board . (Thanks very much to Vando for the help with 2 above repairs )
3. Almost got stuck near Green Island (Thanks again, Haircut, thought I was going to have to camp at Green ) - Damage done : pride and temporary cerebral scarring at the thought of becoming shark food -
4. Sliced feet on oysters whilst trying to sail barefoot like the pros ;)
5. Catapulted and hit my GPS on the mast, rendering it about as useful as a pencil sharpener for recording data.

How did I do, Richiefish ?

almost snapped my ankle saturday and couldn't walk saturday night.

that's about it.

i use KA/Powerex/NXS/MFC

so haven't broke any gear for a long time.... a very long time!!!!!!!

flame suit on. get out ya thumbs!

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Richiefish said...

how much gear have you broken in the last few weeks ? me:
1.trashed a panel in north ice with harness hook
2. sliced bootie and foot on sharp rock/oyster
3.broke screw in waveboard fin
4.snapped uni
5. broken boom clamp
6.bent mast(sleeve/ferrule)
7.baton into luff sleeve, pryde wave
8.webbing broke, mast thru top of luff sleeve, of naish redline.

That gives you a good excuse to buy some new gear

bent boom

I lose!

Punched a hole in my 7.4 Loft02. Easily fixed and as I was fixing it my wife spotted it and recommended I get a new sail as the old one (just over 12 months old) looked tatty.
Some times a women's point of view has advantages and I never tell her she is wrong
I declined the offer of course (yea right I did) slipped in the order that day.

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Richiefish said...

how much gear have you broken in the last few weeks ? me:
1.trashed a panel in north ice with harness hook
2. sliced bootie and foot on sharp rock/oyster
3.broke screw in waveboard fin
4.snapped uni
5. broken boom clamp
6.bent mast(sleeve/ferrule)
7.baton into luff sleeve, pryde wave
8.webbing broke, mast thru top of luff sleeve, of naish redline.

1 mast broken mysteriously on the beach, left rigged in semi-shade
10 toenails cut (please let that count)
2 small cuts on hand from falling down drunk
1 standing electric fan broken in drunken falling-down incident (so it's wind-related)
small cut on left toe from sandals

...and you call yourself hardcore????

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Richiefish said...

how much gear have you broken in the last few weeks ? me:
1.trashed a panel in north ice with harness hook
2. sliced bootie and foot on sharp rock/oyster
3.broke screw in waveboard fin
4.snapped uni
5. broken boom clamp
6.bent mast(sleeve/ferrule)
7.baton into luff sleeve, pryde wave
8.webbing broke, mast thru top of luff sleeve, of naish redline.

1 mast broken mysteriously on the beach, left rigged in semi-shade
10 toenails cut (please let that count)
2 small cuts on hand from falling down drunk
1 standing electric fan broken in drunken falling-down incident (so it's wind-related)
small cut on left toe from sandals

...and you call yourself hardcore????

willy, if you do your drinking lying down (ie. in bed) then you can't fall down and will remain a lot safer>

Wet Willy said,
1 mast broken mysteriously on the beach, left rigged in semi-shade
10 toenails cut (please let that count)
2 small cuts on hand from falling down drunk
1 standing electric fan broken in drunken falling-down incident (so it's wind-related)
small cut on left toe from sandals

...and you call yourself hardcore????

- Willy forgot to mention the reason for his drunken fall was due to the bottom of his dress catching on his high heels
-come on Willy, harden up!

1x mast lent to mate

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RedJimi said...

1. Smashed the nose of my freeride board.
2. Ripped a footstrap screw out of my speed board . (Thanks very much to Vando for the help with 2 above repairs )
3. Almost got stuck near Green Island (Thanks again, Haircut, thought I was going to have to camp at Green ) - Damage done : pride and temporary cerebral scarring at the thought of becoming shark food -
4. Sliced feet on oysters whilst trying to sail barefoot like the pros ;)
5. Catapulted and hit my GPS on the mast, rendering it about as useful as a pencil sharpener for recording data.

How did I do, Richiefish ?

thats a lot of damage. I dont have any mental scaring(yet) but when the mast went thru the top of the luff pocket I had just returned from a run close to wello and back to manly, was just sitting in the water about 100m from the steps when, BANG it just went. If that had happened 5 minutes earlier i would have been an unhappy chappie..

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Wet Willy said...

Richiefish said...

how much gear have you broken in the last few weeks ? me:
1.trashed a panel in north ice with harness hook
2. sliced bootie and foot on sharp rock/oyster
3.broke screw in waveboard fin
4.snapped uni
5. broken boom clamp
6.bent mast(sleeve/ferrule)
7.baton into luff sleeve, pryde wave
8.webbing broke, mast thru top of luff sleeve, of naish redline.

1 mast broken mysteriously on the beach, left rigged in semi-shade
10 toenails cut (please let that count)
2 small cuts on hand from falling down drunk
1 standing electric fan broken in drunken falling-down incident (so it's wind-related)
small cut on left toe from sandals

...and you call yourself hardcore????

You should trim ALL of your toenails !!! Usually being drunk will save one from getting hurt. You must have been a bit too sober ???

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Richiefish said...
You should trim ALL of your toenails !!! Usually being drunk will save one from getting hurt. You must have been a bit too sober ???

Better for the footstraps too.

The toenails, that is, not your sobriety.

Wait! I forgot to mention!!

SUNBURN!!!!!

...and I broke another mast today!!! Freestyling!!! Heli tacks, sailing backwards, sailing backwinded, u name it...

In 3 knots...


It was a really old 1-piece 460 mast I found on the junk heap, just had to break when used with a modern sail (Ezzy wave SE 6.9)

...but that's not the point! I BROKE A MAST WHILE FREESTYLING!!!!!!!!

I'M HARD!!!!!!!!

do kiters break things or do they just get punctures ???(and tangles)

That depends, Richie. Do "rules" count as "things"?

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Richiefish said...

do kiters break things or do they just get punctures ???(and tangles)

Kiters mostly LOSE things. They break boards, ankles, etc, too.

I put my head through my almost brand new 4.6m code:red, at 28 knots and still got 22 knots on the way back with the big hole in the sail!

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Richiefish said...

do kiters break things or do they just get punctures ???(and tangles)

they tear stuff and if they're lucky no one else sees it happen, otherwise other kiters bag them out on the forums for self launching, not self launching, self rescuing, not self rescuing, climbing onto rocks, pulling the safety, not pulling the safety, not being far enough away from the beach, being too far from the beach to swim in, wearing a board leash, not using a board leash, or just simply beeing a kook it's tough work being a kiter when there's a seabreeze forum

How Much gear do you think Jason Pollakow breaks every season? I reckon it would come close Richiefish

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Upthere said...

How Much gear do you think Jason Pollakow breaks every season? I reckon it would come close Richiefish

but he makes it look good !

How does a catapault leading to a bit of "mast" on mast impact count?? Left me with a black bruise the size of a 10c piece on the end of the wife's best friend..yowch! Please note, no RDMs were involved .

buying new / newer gear havent broken anything yet touch block of wood i call head yet fingers crossed

Thanks Richie you've put the mocka on all of us.
First green arrow day in a month for CQ and I've snapped a boom, via a la calapulta + 400m paddle.

I was hoping I wouldn't get to post here for a while.

1. Broken boom

Richie what have you done starting this thread????
Thursday hit submerged tree/log, at about 28knts and came to a instant stop.
Fractured fin and some sort of damage to most parts of my body.
Yesterday my mate broke his ankle, requires surgery, thats him gone for 2-3 months, needed two people to carry him back up the beach as he was floundering around in the shallows like beached dugong.
I had to do a 1km round trip through the stingray shallows to rescue his gear before the tide washed it into the mangroves.[}:)]
Can we please have this thread removed and any further reference banned.

thems the breaks

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Jman said...

I was hoping I wouldn't get to post here for a while.

1. Broken boom

BAD LUCK MATE! Saw bondy the other day... and it was ya X6!

Doesnt matter, now you can buy a X9