Yellowing under tail pad. Help

Hi,

I just bought a used 7’8" Hobie peter pan slug and unfortunately it came with a tailpad on it. I took the tail pad off with a hair drier and there was a dark yellow tint left behind on the surface from the pad. HOW DO I GET THE YELLOWING OFF? please help. Thank you in advance.

How hot did the pad get when you were blow drying it? Heat makes fiberglass go yellow, you will find this out if you are ever doing stoney ding repair and leave your cup of hot batch resin on the board for too long. You really can’t do anything about it except maybe put the tailpad back on with some epoxy or draw a cool picture on it. Don’t worry about it no one will tease you for having a yellow board.

well… best thing to do is put another, bigger tail stomp pad on, as the deck glassing on those is notoriously weak and prone to heel-stomp delams. have fixed ( temporarily) quite a few.

try wet sanding followed by polishing - if just a little of that ( nothing fiercer than 300 grit ) doesn’t do it, you’re pretty well stuck with it. sometimes heat plus the adhesive can make the surface a little yellow, sometimes it’s down in the foam and you’re stuck with it ( no pun intended ) .

should you have a need to remove a pad in the future, don’t use heat, use a solvent plus a scraper. especially on the deck, where any delams or stomps will be exacerbated by heat and can spread badly if you’re not really careful.

hope that’s of use

doc…

Thanks guys,

I bought some nail polish remover and a 3M sponge with scouring pad. Several application of nail polish remover and scouring did the job. Now I have to polish it back up. Thanks

I also have a Hobie PP Slug… with all the same problems. I reckon it will see me out with the amount of longboarding I do these days. I just repaired the bad dings and splits and fin slashes and waxed her up…

My question is… how did the name come about… I mean - Peter Pan Slug… not yer normal sun/sea/surf vibe

ohhhhkay, it came about like this:

There was a surf shop in Rhode Island, run by a couple of guys, one called Peter Panagiotis ( aka Pete Pan ). They sold Hobies ( aka Stewarts with a different sticker ).

Pan was into surf contests. He got himself named head of the New England division of the Eastern Surfing Association after the death of the late Dr. Colin Couture ( who probably did as much or more for East Coast surfing as any other man ya could mention. )

Funny thing, though. Rather than ( as head of the local governing body ) only acting as an official and judge at the local contests and all, Pan competed in 'em, as did many of his customers at the aforementioned surf shop. And he won most of 'em in every division he entered, with his customers and clique taking most of the others. I won’t deny that the guy can surf adequately, what I have an issue with is the propriety of being both an official and a judge and the head of the sanctioning body.

You sure didn’t see that sort of thing happening when Doc Couture was running the show.Let us say that ESA surf contests in Southern New England lost credibility after Pan like Richard Milhouse Nixon lost credibility after Watergate. With similar hard feelings left on all sides. The New England District winners typically didn’t fare all that well in the ESA East Coast Championships either, where they were up against the winners from the rest of the East Coast districts.

In any event, there were and are two surfboard divisions in said contests; Shortboard and Longboard. Being as shortboards don’t work all that hot in midsummer New England grovelling ‘surf’, Pan had a board made for himself that was a rule-beater: thick, wide, rounded, a board that would behave like a longboard but be allowed in the shortboard class. He could now win both longboard and shortboard classes easily.

Thus, the Peter Pan Slug. Wasn’t glassed heavy ( hey, Pan was a dealer, he didn’t need a durable board) but it was made to do stuff with in tiny ‘waves’.

They found that if ya made one over 9’ it could catch waves waaay outside, jack yer wave count way up… albeit at the expense of anybody and everybody else in the lineup. I know one guy who has a 10’+ version. He shows up with it, everybody else might as well go home, cos he will hog 'em all. He sees nothing wrong with this situation and I guess a strict interpretation of the unwritten rules of surf etiquette allow it, but there’s something kinda rotten about it to me.

Which makes the fin slashes and dings and heel crunches you see in most of 'em a little more explainable.

Leastwise, that’s my take on it. I run a surf shop in the next state over. There’s a lot of other views. Jim Phillips might have a good take on the scene and he most assuredly was around to see some of it.

hope that’s of use

doc…

I can completely attest to Doc’s statement on Peter Pan.

I have a brief competing record with the ESA about 8-10 years ago and I like to ride boards that perform, no boards that work in weak, mushy small surf. (They have there place to but it’s not my first choice). In order for me to place higher I had to go with the trend or get out.

Riding a fat board that al its function to do is catch crappy waves early is not my idea of competition. That likes competing with a 6 year old in a wrestling match and who can take down the most of them.

The slug is a bloaty board that Pan and his team riders would ride. Pan would hold contest mostly in the summer pre-hurricane season in usually smaller surf so the slug riders did very well. It also did not hurt that a lot of the judges where people associated ns some shape form or fashion for the Watershed (Pan’s retail shop).

Also with the shortboard competition the legal rules where basically no board that is longer than 2 feet over your head. Ok that’s fine……I guess……So that means the average competitor is running a bloated 8 foot Slug shape with more volume than your average longboard…….Slug riders win again. The name of the board I believe was a nickname from the people from the Stewart factory.

All and all Pan is not a bad guy, but those are the facts.

If you judge a contest that’s your role PIEROD judge not competitor.

You don’t compete nor should your family for that matter.</>

At least not while your judging.

Heh. It all becomes clear…it just reinforces my view that contests are for those who want to be seen and not those who just want to surf… but that’s just my opinion. I just think that contests are not the be all and end all in surfing as some think.

The strange thing is that the Hobie [for me anyway] does’nt really get going in my local break until it gets a little bigger. i always thought it had a little too much rocker. oh well you live and learn

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