Repaired Snap: Reducing weight!

General Discussion
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Hi folks,

I’ve spent the last few weeks fixing a repaired snapped shortboard. I used bracers down either side of the stringer to reinforce the strength and filled the gaps with poly foam. All was fine then.

This weekend, we had some nice weather so I decided to go ahead with the glassing phase. I did the bottom on saturday and the deck yesterday, left it all to sure and hand-sanded the worst areas.

I left it outside overnight to air-off the fumes and checked it this morning and it feels so much heavier. I’m not worried about the strength of the board any more, my issues are with whether or not it would float!

Is it safe to take a power sander to the board and remove some of the GRP to try to reduce the weight? I put two layers of 4oz cloth on top and bottom just to make sure on the strength side of things and double lapped the rails. If I completely sand down both top and bottom, will this be enough to reduce the weight of the board or have i completely buggered up the repair and used too much resin in the glassing?

Any advice would be great.

Cheers!

Board@Work

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Repairing a snapped board will make it weight more, it’s just a fact of life. Just sand down the edges of the glass with 80 grit so it does not cut you and go surf it. Your board will have more drive due to the extra weight.

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I guess as long as it floats with me on it then it should be ok!

pounding 14ft forecast for this weekend… probably not the best to test it out in :wink:

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Howzit BoardatWork, Don’t woory to much about the weight, some times it actually makes a longboard work better due to a better glide.Aloha,Kokua