Got an Andrus 7’2" glassed by Jack Reeves. Just took the wax off for the first time and it is not looking to well. Weird because the 6’8" lil’bro of the 7’2" has been ridden 10x more often and has fewer dings.
It is a good step up above the step up and the bottom and rails are primo. The deck is cratered with a bit of spideyweb going on in the deepest heal dings.
I have the horses out from doing a few deck delams on a 6’4" and dings on a 6’3’ and a log. May as well fix it now with all the equipment out before the garage clean up.
So should I prevent the 7’2" deck near the rail from going to delam mush by glassing the deep heal dings with a couple of patches of 6 oz or just wax it and ride it? Opinions welcome. Thanks.
you’re kidding right? I don’t see anything thats needs repair, in fact if thats a PUPE w/more than a few months of regular surfing on it, I’d say “wow that’s in great shape”!
I’d seal any cracks that look major. Adding glass to a board that’s dented that much won’t help a bit. Better off putting a traction pad on it. Lots more protection than a layer of 6 oz will provide. The foam dents because it’s soft, not because of the glass, or lack of same.
I was being anal. Just shrackle/spidey web in the deeper spots. Only ridden dozen times or so. Poly - glass on fins. Was supposed to be 6/6 -6, but I think it went 6/4 -6. Had a friend bring it over to the mainland after it was glassed. Must be a lighter schedule than 6/6- the dings are way deeper than on my round pin 6’8" Andrus which has the number of the beast glass schedule. I bought Bought the Clark (green) blank in Wailua in January of 07.’ It was a 7’4"R I think and one of the last ones in the warehouse.
Like I said I am just finishing repairs on 3 boards and was going to reinforce the dings to reduce delam probability while I had the gear and the mess out, but probably being anal about something that is, by nature of its poly/glass construction, going to be dinged and stress fractured to mush over time. Probably not worth the effort and extra weight of deck patching.
It is weird that I still can get bummed about dings. Knowing they are going to happen no matter the glass thickness.
Only pressures I should really tackle with any regularity are the ones on the log, because the logs can go the distance even when they have 40lbs of resin, glass and cabosil in them and become Franken-boards. They still ride.
My last log lasted 17 years before I snapped it in two at a beachbreak last summer. It was still fun even though it was an ugly monster with every possible repair (buckle, new bottom glass, fin box, new deck glass, rails, huge amounts of cabo. Kept the 10" rake fins unlimited and fe-foiled it a bit and she is sitting pretty in the new poly log.
