Hi, I've had my trusty surf sup for 4-5 years and recently a pebble scrapped the bottom of my board and punctured it. Need to figure out what to do about it. I also had special leak-prevention tape on the back of the board and I removed it for these pics - might as well deal with that one too. Finally, I looked carefully at the front of the board and found a sliver that looks punctured also. I have filed boards with holes before with a compbination of "beer cooler foam" and/or surf foam, then qcelled over it, finishing off with fiberglass, but my fiberglass skills are really bad and I was basically "practicing" on these boards to get good. But then I moved away from Hawaii sold all these board before I even found out how good my repairs wore, and I am now surfing the great lakes with this 1 good surftech board. I am a little afraid to attempt repairs on my own. A friend said just try to get things water tight now, and then see what to do later. So I may just use Solarez only, and perhaps apply a thin coating to all spots where it puntured through. On the other hand, maybe I should sand things down in each area, expand the area, and try to qcell and fiberglass it ? The main problem is that the ding from the pebble actually altered the surface so it is a little indented. If I just used SOlarez, would I apply just a very thin layer as is, and leave the indent? I think in the past what I found is that if you start messing with something, it quickly becomes even more problematic - I've ended up expanding holes, trying to sand them to be even, and in the end making it MORE noticeable vs making it appear like nothing ever happened.
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