Repair Before:After, originally uploaded by Form<->Function.

My friend Eric hit a rock while surfing in Scotland recently, so he brought his board by to have a little surgery done.

The fin ripped right out of the box, tearing part of it out, and put a nice ding on one of the rails. Definitely a testament to the installation by Harbour, fin gone, chunks of fin box taken out and only a few hairline cracks in the glass at the front of the box.

I very carefully routed out the old box, and then put in a new one. I filled in the rail ding and then patched it with some glass. I also put a patch of glass over the fin box, figuring that I should do it as strong as the first install. Sanded it all and then polished it up.

I’ll have to get a little polyester resin to have on hand for repairs on tinted poly boards like this one. The epoxy doesn’t polish up the same as poly, so you can clearly see the glass patch, which doesn’t show on the white boards I have fixed, but on the red tint…