Good Morning, I was looking for a place for new members to say hello, but I don't see it. So Hello everyone. , I read the newbie FAQ sticky. Im looking for advice on how to fix a board. I bought a broken board. I don't know much except what I read, and from watching movies and youtube. I like the movies Searching for surf and Riding Giants. and I’m not on any surfing forum. Another site i ordered the ding scriptures from sent someone here before They said this is the place.
I bought a Spoiler by Oceanside Florida almost 10 ft board by 22. to learn to surf at Edgewater, Ohio. Its freshwater, maybe 3-foot waves slight chop on a good day. no chop and rolling in once a year maybe. I don't care about the crappy waves I can see you can get a decent ride once you can stand up with a big board and learn here. I can walk here I’m real close. There aren’t many good days, I’m not in a hurry. I did it because I didn't want to spend a bunch to find out I don't like surfing. People surf here but it seems like they’re boards aren't floating them. The tails are under water like 2 feet. it just seems if I had a big heavy board it should catch easily. and I could belly ride for a while. I barely see anyone catch a wave. maybe they surf someplace else with real waves and have these small boards.
I looked the board over pretty good. It has a busted fin, and one rail hole about an inch. maybe 3 feet back. it’s got compression marks from feet and knees. no cracks there. Some three dings on the bottom by the front. that are pressed in like a 1/16 I guess. but the glass is still on. The board is shiny all over. No dark spots like water or delamination’s, it looks unmolested and never repaired before. I got some books and I used to do fiberglass on aircraft a little bit. I ordered the ding scriptures. The broke fin is still in the box, but the outer coating is gone down to the box, like they wanted to see if they could get it out, or the impact broke it off. it looks like its glassed in the box. no screws or no pin slots. The box has two 1-inch cracks from each front corner going out at a 45-degree angle. I’m assuming this is a 60s board, and that’s how they did it. hopefully it’s not the Chinese knockoff. it’s been in a garage for twenty years supposedly. Somebody on here asked questions about this board about three years ago, his description is exactly as mine. White with yellow rails , sign Oceanside Spoiler cocoa florida. I don't have repair materials yet. There’s no boards around here for sale. You have to pay here. I waited a few years for a ten-foot used board to show up somewhere on CL. I weigh over 200. I got it for 150 bucks. We have a stand-up surf shop but it’s for those soft standup boards for women and girls mostly. There no repair shops anywhere in the state I think.
Anyways assuming the fin is glassed in and it fills the whole box, it’s not one of those you can move forward and back. I’m thinking of cutting the fin out of the box by cutting 45-degree slots with a circular. in so I can make space to get the pieces out with hand tools, without damaging the box. is it just get it out don't do damage type of thing because its glassed in? All the fins I see are those with pins and screws. I was going to put a 10-inch fin on it. So are there fins somewhere or do you just cut off the pins, and the screw. and glass one of those in that has the same base size. And are the bases for glassed in standard.Or do I work those too to fit. I don’t care about removable fins I’m glassing one in. For now, that's it. Il read up on ding repairs when my book gets here. Thank You.
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