Are they the worst, or what?
I can go for months without dinging a board at the beach, only to smack it on the garage door opener or my extension ladder or something as I’m taking it out of or putting it back into the racks.
Then again (on the bright side) you don’t gotta let 'em dry out before you patch 'em.
Anybody got a epic garage ding story to share?
(sorry it’s come to this, but the surf has really sucked around here for weeks…)
hahaha - when the surf gets really bad, the swaylocks gang get testy. Posting wars, locked threads, and the like. When the surf is good, everyone gets mellow, like (responding to an insult) "good one, brah I'll crack a tinny to that!"
I liked Kensurf's comment on a beautiful board he sold, "the guy paid me, dinged it in the garage, and went off to go surfing" - gotta love it!
BTW, I build hollow wood surfboards. Try forgetting to remove a vent plug while leaving your board in a summertime garage. Takes the term "garage ding" to a whole 'nuther level!
Holy Crap Huck that beautiful painting!!!??? You must have been shaking your head feverishly at yourself! Still has life no doubt, but damn!
is that Shakira Huck?
Yes, well that is to say, it was supposed to be kind of a Shakira-style mermaid, since I like the way she did a mermaid entrance in one of her videos, and my wife is a fan and plays her music all the time, so most days when I'm sitting at my computer posting I'm listening to Shakira in the background. http://youtu.be/weRHyjj34ZE
hahaha looks like
Have just finish sanded a blank ready for glass and went to set it aside and tore a chunk out of the rail at the nose. The repair took about as long as the shape. Gotta watch the overhead stuff.
Spackle is my friend. Mike
i got one, not a garage ding but a factory ding
when i used to work for a big surfboard company we were getting ready for the ASR show, someone built a rack to put about 40 boards on and then we started picking out all the nicest boards out of the inventory half way through everyone else has left and im all alone, as i put on one of the last boards on the rack and start walking to get another board i hear a big crack, i look back and see a bunch of boards starting to fall, luckily the rack was next to a wall so the one side of boards didnt go far but the other side started to fall over, i ran over and bear hugged as many as i could to save them from falling, i was stuck holding these boards and i couldnt move for at lest 15 min before someone walked by and i yeld at them to get some people over to help me out, at the end of it all only one board suffered a ding, so not that bad but seeing all the nicest boards that they had falling over was quite scary at that time
Most of my worst dings, over the years, have either come from garage “mishaps” of as the result of some knucklehead (other than myself) bailing on his board or paddling too close to me when we’re both caught inside on a big day…stuff like that.
I never use old leashes at rocky spots and bag my boards to and from the beach or when they aren’t in use. Yet dings inevitably find them. It must be the fate of all foam…
Dings you can come to terms with…but delams and stress cracks?
Oooooofgh: they’re the death knell of a favorite stick…
A pox upon them!
“…hollow wood surfboards. Try forgetting to remove a vent plug while leaving your board in a summertime garage.”
Not just wood. Both my W.A.V.E. Hollows cracked along the rail seams back in the 70s. Happened to most of the ones my friends had as well.