So with this most recent bout of Eduoard I learned to never trust anyone else to secure your gear. My Bruce Reagan QF took a trip from truck bed to highway.
Damage: No full buckle as the stringer and most of the foam appears intact (one crack in foam and assorted marks from my checking for damage). Glass is cracked 3/4 of the way around and a good bit of rail damage and another crack down near the fin box.
Option A.) Try to patch and reinforce all areas damaged with a plethora of glass and resin if possible (not sure how this would hold up)
B.) Strip the glass and reshape or adjust to my liking.
C.) Get kinky with a saw and make a mini simmons. I would love the compact shape, but have a few qualms as to whether a simmons could compete in terms of catchability with a fat longboard. I already have a fish so I dunno if this would be smart. I have 70"+ of meaty blank to create a simmons, which at 5’8 155lbs, I have a good bit of foam.
pics. If they are huge I’ll put them in the regular uploader
If it was me, and the foam and stringer are good, I’d just cut away any de-lammed glass, re-glass those areas, sand and patch over the rest, be done by beer thirty. Feather edges, hot coat, etc. tomorrow. Back in the water by weekend. If it was me.
Cut her down! Three of my first batch of boards were reshapes. I did my boards w surform and block sanding. Just take care stripping it down, and try to keep foam w out tears etc…you got to chop in front of fin box…I’d prob make a wide square tail Sims thing! I haven’t tried one yet, but guy’s seem to catvh waves well on em!
strip it and make adjustments. It will be an education. You already have a sense
of how the board rides. with a re-shape you will find out if your ideas are really an improvement. Quite Flight makes a nice Board i like the shapes i have seen of Bruce Reagan so you have an excellent start point. improvement. Whatever you do have fun and post the results.
I’m really considering the simmons approach, do they retain the planing advantage of longboards? I would imagine they do from the wide nose and hull shape.
Even if there’s only one crack in the foam? The diagonal gash is from my scissors
