Pressure cracks on new board

[artz]

There wre a number Of Channle Island Boards that had craks that looked like that.  I could be a number of things a bad batch of resin or maybe even incompatable resins used in build.  The shop has made you a fair offer on returning the board But I would also get in touch with the shaper show him your photos. He may already know about this from others who have had Boards fail like you shown. 

[mako224]

Too much resin…not enough cloth???  Cloth floating in resin and not squeegied out properly???  Comp glass job??? 

[SammyA]

Those sure aren’t stress cracks. That’s impact damage. Stress cracks run perpendicular to the stringer as a result of the board flexing, longitudinally. Spider cracks like that are caused by impact or blunt trauma (stomping with feet). Cracks do not mysteriously appear for no reason. They are caused by two things: impact, or bending.

If you are not good with fiberglass your best solution is to take it to a repair guy and have him add a layer of 4 oz to reinforce the damaged area and seal the water out.

Want to know if a ding is taking on water? Suck on it. If you taste salt, it’s leaking.

Old Doc Milliken would agree.

 

[wavecraft]

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Nail it to the fence in your back yard. Take a pellet gun and use it for taget practice. Then buy a good board from one of us.

+3 Man, I am wondering if the glasser used too much catalyst? Ive had those stress marks before and to this day I honestly dunno what causes these "stress marks.'. Suggestion: use it and abuse it, then strip it down, reshape it in a yr.

Those are not stress cracks. It’s a bad glassing job. When the hot cote is to hot and kicks to fast it makes for very brittle glass. This happens a lot in the winter when a glassers is trying to compensate for cold temps in the laminating room and mixes to hot. Then the slightest little bump will cause spider cracking like that.

[wavecraft]

Take it easy stingray the guy made a terrable mistake when he bought that board online. Lets educate him why he should never do that again. And why he should spend his money on a board from a good locale shaper that actually cares about his workmanship and the end product they produce like you and Barry and I do. Take A little time to save just a little more money and and order a nice quality board from someone like us.

[wavecraft]

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thanks for the replies guys. So the board is a 7’3 Graeme Bunt magic carpet. Bunty is a shaper down in Cornwall and I bought this from Trioceansurf.com who stock his boards so it’s not a case of chinese crap I’m afraid. The board was £395, I was planning on going custom but basically impatience and a lack of any shapers near by got the better of me so I got what I thought was the next best thing. As to the exact construction of it in terms of glass schedule and foam, website didn’t say, just that it’s a poly http://www.trioceansurf.co.uk/surf-shop/minimals/graeme-bunt-minimal-73-magic-carpet-blue/ . It’s a 2+1 set up but I’ve just been riding it single with a 10 inch plastic dolphin fin. Deck is fine as far as I know however I’m thinking now maybe I should get the wax off and have a look incase it’s cracked to shit. The board lives in a padded bag in my garage and only goes in the van when I’m going to and from the break, a journey it’s only made twice. Live in the north of england and it hasn’t been hot weather when I’ve taken it out so it hasn’t been baking in the van. 

I asked the question on here as I figured the people most knowlegable on the subject would be the people who make boards in the first place, and I thought you guys might have other suggestions involving repair work etc. If its not the right forum then I am sorry but I appreciate the advice anyway.

 

Cheers

 

You started this thread and it perfectly fine to ask these questions here. It’s your thread. Didn’t realize you’re in England. Buying a board on line never seams to work out for anyone for one reason or another. Those are not stress cracks. It’s a bad glassing job. When the hot cote is to hot and kicks to fast it makes for very brittle glass. This happen a lot in the winter when a glasser is trying to compensate for cold temps in the laminating room and mixes to hot. Then the slightest little bump will cause spider cracking like that. Try to seek out a shaper with a good reputation somewhere near you and you probably won’t have this type of issue again. Surfboards pretty much are not a guaranteed product. You never know about the awsome power of the ocean. If you know what I mean. Your board could brake on a small day as well as a large day.

[McDing]

Who built it and in what coumtry???  Just because you bought it from a mail order company in Britan doesn’t mean it was made there.  Been seeing this alot on foreign boards.  Brittle resin.

[shapaholic2011]

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Nail it to the fence in your back yard. Take a pellet gun and use it for taget practice. Then buy a good board from one of us.

+3 Man, I am wondering if the glasser used too much catalyst? Ive had those stress marks before and to this day I honestly dunno what causes these "stress marks.'. Suggestion: use it and abuse it, then strip it down, reshape it in a yr.

Those are not stress cracks. It’s a bad glassing job. When the hot cote is to hot and kicks to fast it makes for very brittle glass. This happens a lot in the winter when a glassers is trying to compensate for cold temps in the laminating room and mixes to hot. Then the slightest little bump will cause spider cracking like that.

That sounds believable! Ty for info.

[shapaholic2011]

Ok, I got the wrong term! They’re not stress marks! They are hair line fractures then? I called them stress marks bcuz I got mine from appling pressure while surfing…I call them stress marks. But a fractured hareline mark on deck or bottom could be a stress mark to…what caused those marks “stress” as it wont happen by itself… I think any fracture caused could be mark caused by stress!

[kazuma]

Mako224 is correct. Cloth floating and the resin is cracking. If it was my board, I wouldn’t touch it.

[gene]

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Nail it to the fence in your back yard. Take a pellet gun and use it for taget practice. Then buy a good board from one of us.

+3 Man, I am wondering if the glasser used too much catalyst? Ive had those stress marks before and to this day I honestly dunno what causes these "stress marks.'. Suggestion: use it and abuse it, then strip it down, reshape it in a yr.

Those are not stress cracks. It’s a bad glassing job. When the hot cote is to hot and kicks to fast it makes for very brittle glass. This happens a lot in the winter when a glassers is trying to compensate for cold temps in the laminating room and mixes to hot. Then the slightest little bump will cause spider cracking like that.

That sounds believable! Ty for info.

Maybe ‘sounding believable’ is why the myth is repeated so often.  I say kick it as hot as you want then sand it real tight, same with the gloss.  

[stingray]

Ok…395 pounds is about 662 dollars…I’m not here to bash people…

A Seven foot surfboard in San Diego with a quality glass job…way over $800…

What you have is a production board with a light glass job…you got what you paid for. The stress cracks are normal. I see it all the time…lesson learned…

You can ship the board cross country or cuss out someone on the phone…

…or man up…ride the crap out of that surfboard…next time you will build your own or have the knowledge to guide your shaper to make you an awesome stick.

Light boards have their place…strong boards have their place too…how to get light and strong is Swaylock’s…