Surfboard Damages

Series Summary

Surfing is an extremely popular sport that comes in many different forms: kneeboarding, bodyboarding, surf-skiing, tow-in surfing, and of course the traditional stand-up surfing. Some surfers enjoy the sport as recreation, while others surf competitively for national and worldwide titles. Traditional surfing consists of paddling out on a surfboard into the ocean and waiting for a breaking wave to come along. Once you see an opening, you paddle in the direction of the moving wave, matching its speed. Once the ocean begins to carry you, you can hop to your feet and maneuver your board, whether it’s to do tricks like hang tens or stalls, to go inside the tube, or to just enjoy riding the wave. Of course, the staple of surfing is the surfboard. While not extremely expensive, the surfboard is still an investment. So, what do you do if your surfboard happens to get a ding or a slice in it? Well, in this free video series, learn how to repair surfboards. Our expert, Sean O'Leary, shows you how to repair a ding and a nose of a surfboard. Learn the materials and equipment you need for surfboard repair. Also, learn how to safely handled the chemicals. Sean explains the whole process: sanding, resin, Q-cell, laminating, and more. So, before you hit the waves, learn how to repair your broken surfboard today!

Video Transcript

"Alright, so here we go, let's start accessing the damage. Here's our basic ding. This is just a deck ding. Usually will happen from a you know, a rock, or some people fall on it with their elbows, or another board will hit you. This is usually, this starts off at about thirty five dollars. It's just a minor ding on a flat surface. And these are the easier repairs to fix. Right here you've got a whole, you know, a pretty nice, long board, gloss and polished with color. You've just got like a little slice in the rail. This guy wants it to be color matched and polished out, and that's something that you know, it's pretty simple and easy to do if you have the right tools. Also we have nose breaks, you know, here's a nice gun that the guy took to portal ask indito. Broke snapped the nose off and we put it back together for him, and that runs about seventy five dollars because obviously you can see how on both sides needed to be fixed. Always tail repairs. Yeah, big big slice out of the tail, had to be, you know, reshaped, re fiber glassed and sanded, and make it look nice. That runs about forty-five all the way up to sixty five dollars. We fix foam boards, although they're a lot more challenging then other boards. Here's a restoration of an old Ipa that we did. You know, it was like got an ice board, loves to board, thinks it's ridable, twin fins, you know, sting or swallow. And he wanted to put about one hundred and a half into this, so we rebuilt the tail, did some deck dings, got it all sealed up and polished out for him. So, you know, a lot of it, it just varies, you know. Fin repairs, busts, you know, fin plugs, all these things are repairable, it just, you know, I would say all the way up to about two hundred dollars is where people really start wondering, like OK, is it worth it, and then that's when you have to start thinking, is it your favorite stick, is it your favorite a board that has sentimental value, and that's what they, you know, that's what they take into consideration, because, you know, that's still two hundred dollars that you can invest in a brand new surfboard, you know. But, you want it seaworthy, and that's what we're here for, so. Over here we have a tail repair and a couple dings. This is all pretty standard. Dinged tail, ding, ding on the bottom, eighty bucks. And what I'll do is I'll reshape that glass it and sand it, and get it all water tight. This one is pretty simple. Just a you know simple bottom ding. That runs about thirty-five. this one is the nose and tail, and this one, you want the nose reshaped, glassed, and then they want it color matched afterwards, and glossed and polished. So this is more on the higher end. So, what we'll do now is we'll go over all the materials that we used to do these ding repairs."