I rigged too big and gave the front of the carve a flogging at Low Head on Thursday. Clean break right across the bottom and up the rails on both sides. Nasty but with lots of advice from Paul I am having a crack at repairing it.













































Bit more sanding and should be hitting it with colour soon
My first attempt and I dont know much but happy to try and answer any questions....

Looking good, the only problem is getting the starboard logo on again. But then I don't even match colors half the time

Check out this site, it's quite helpful
boardlady.com/

looking good ben..should be nice and strong...the boardlady link that fos put up is a really good site for repairs

Nice work ben, did you get the fibreglass itch from all that sanding?

Good repair mate. But i have to get my gopro on that airplane. I put the gopro on the kite yesterday.

im so sad the poor carve

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FoS said...

Looking good, the only problem is getting the starboard logo on again. But then I don't even match colors half the time
Check out this site, it's quite helpful
boardlady.com/

Thats a great site, never seen that before... Wont be a logo but I am going to have a shot at pigmenting flow coat...

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Rustbucket68 said...

looking good ben..should be nice and strong...the boardlady link that fos put up is a really good site for repairs

Thanks mate, Im only really following your instructiions

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js666 said...

Nice work ben, did you get the fibreglass itch from all that sanding?

No fibreglass itch as yet... either im immune or you dont get it from epoxy....
I did sand a boat above my head once, man o man.. maybe all that itching is what lost me my hair!

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izaak said...

Good repair mate. But i have to get my gopro on that airplane. I put the gopro on the kite yesterday.

Wouldnt that be awesome, im not real confident flying that plane (how much do you like your gopro?) but I do have a few mates that are extremely good pilots. Does around 100kmh and is fully acrobatic. We should try and get that sorted for sure!

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aus005 said...

im so sad the poor carve

Yep, Its had a tough life... speed saiing, bump and jump... ive even had it out in the waves... Dont stress though, im mixing the epoxy with love

Hi Bearhoover! Did you use a polyester based filla for the the final bog up?

Final filler was the west system with balloon filler added. Still wasnt happy with the finish before paint so went over it with a thick brush on layer of epoxy resin before sanding and painting.

another nose job.

Got there in the end after a few paint mixing issues...

















Pretty happy with it, once again thanks for all the help

Nice job Ben, you have to be happy with that!, Do you do cheap botox and boob jobs on the side?

Try anything once Damien , I reckon Epoxy would do a better job than botox...The firmer the better....... epecially around the tail........ of the board......

nice one Ben looks great

Nice result, looks good!

Excellent work Ben!

Wow, thats great and I love the painted decals over the repair.

Excellent work Ben. Did it add much weight after the repair??

Great job Ben, looks good

For anyone that wants to try and work out colours for their starboards this may help:

http://www.star-board.com/2012/products/charts.php?id=colors

Also under products you can find fin bolt info and some repair info:

www.star-board.com/2012/products/asst_repair.php
www.star-board.com/2012/products/charts.php?id=fin_bolts

Plus lots more..

Thanks guys, im very happy with the result

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izaak said...

Excellent work Ben. Did it add much weight after the repair??

At times I dought it would have floated with the amount of filler I had on it , most of that got sanded off though.
I think it would be slightly heavier but not much given it now has 3 layers of matting around the nose and a thick coating of flowcoat. Majority was re fitting what was sanded off.
I dont think it would be a notable increase... well I hope anyways.

The weights at the front so should help you with forward loops.

the starboard colour guide at least on the older boards is a pantone colour when i asked people to mix paint to this pantone number no one had a clue seems to be american formula

Trade aid in Moonah, 62 charles street mixed a colour for me using a pantone number years ago for a exocet wave board.
The shop has changed hands now so are called something different, but still operating.
The guy in there is very good at colour matching, just take your board in and he will colour match some paint and put it in a pressure pack for $22.00.

I wonder if he could provide the correct tint mix to add to flowcoat rather than pressure packs?
Easy to apply and very durable....

Rare spares in Devonport do the matching pressure can colours, check out the invermay shop and see what they can do.