Hey guys,
Went surfing for 5 weeks in spain. Was a lot of fun, had good waves and a good time, but I didn't mentioned that my board was soaking water through a little crack…
Sooo, now the top layer is delaminated…Is this the word ? haha I don't really know… ;)
in october I will start shaping my own boards, but still I want to keep this one for my girlfriend !
How can I repair this board, if it's possible ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAAr-ZpIujc&feature=youtu.be
Thanks for your help !
Cheers
You have two easy options… Either ride it to until its crap… Or add a ton of weight cut all the glass off and reglass. The choice is yours.
peace.
If you leave the delamination as is and surf the board, it will break. You have lost all of your strenght in the glass job with a delamination that large. You can cut the cloth and re-attach it with a resin/qcell mixture but I have seen this work with mixed results. You can inject resin under the delamination and plave weights on it…again I do not like this option. There are a number of good videos for delamination repair on your tube. Here is but one of them…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_FW_cfQfM
You can also check out the boardlady.com for advice and picture of many types of repairs and situation. In the end you have to ask yourself how much time and effort you want to put into the board.
Here is a pic of a Skip Frye that had serious delamination. The 11’ eagle was worth fixing IMHO. It is a 30 year old board that had been fixed with layers of qcell and mutlitple layers of glass making the repair extremely heavy. It had delaminated again and I was worried that board would snap as I could feel the glass flexing under my feet. In the end I sanded/cut away the damage cloth and used a router to cut away the damaged foam. I used large boards to span the repair area so I could route the foam to an even depth. I then sacrificed a damaged blank and glued new foam in the routed area. Reshape, glass, colour match and gloss and I managed to prolong the life of this board. I hope some of this info is useful to you. Good luck with your repair.