I’m trying to decide what to do with a ca 1967 Bennett surfboard, shaped by Geoff McCoy.
It has many dings and is far from water-proof, and if it was a new board then the individual dings could all be repaired.
If it was a relatively new board which had landed on the rocks and got all those dings in one event, then I’d cut out all damaged material, fill the defects with resin/Q-cell mix and then glass over each ding individually. But this approach would be a kind of vandalism for a board of this age and leave it pockmarked with shiny white spots everywhere.
I see this board primarily as a collectible, but would not mind trying it out in the surf once or twice.
So my main aim is to not reduce the boards value as a collectible, or preferably to increase it’s value. It making it waterproof and surf-able would increase it’s value, then I’d take it for a surf some time, maybe at some single fin classic meeting or similar events.
Do you think that well done repairs with colout matching etc would increase the value?
Or would it be best to leave it alone?
Or fill defects with resin and glass over the lot and polish it so that the original material is preserved but protected from further deterioration?
I’ll post more detailed photos of the dings later on if required.
Thanks for any help with this, Mik