Recycling Old Windsurfers

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niall barrett
niall barrett
WA
248 posts
WA, 248 posts
14 Feb 2005 9:08pm
I have three really nice waveboards [poleboards] sitting in my garage.

They are things of great beauty and they have carved many wave faces,scythed through many bottom turns [I spent 2 hard decades afore the mast....yeeeARRRH]
Now the dust gathers ever thicker since I discovered you really CAN kite waves [despite some views proferred by others on this forum].
I am moving house soon and want some really good ideas on recycling, 'cos I can't sell them [worth nothing], cant burn em [toxic fumes], cant convert them into tables [too much rocker, you need slalom boards for that], can't compost them [100% completely non biodegradable].

Is there a graveyard somewhere that old poleboards crawl away to die in? Should I keep them and like Tutenkahman be enterred with them at the end.
waveslave
waveslave
WA
4263 posts
WA, 4263 posts
14 Feb 2005 10:10pm
Try the local OP-shop.
Simon
Simon
WA
275 posts
WA, 275 posts
14 Feb 2005 10:47pm
Hi Niall,
If they are sailable, here are heaps of kids getting into windsurfing who are after boards. We run a kids club at the South of Perth YC every Saturday, i am sure some of the kids would be stoked to have a free board.


Simon
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www.gowindsurfing.com
bondo
bondo
QLD
699 posts
QLD, 699 posts
15 Feb 2005 9:19am

I hear there is a plant on the east coast recycling old windsurfers into soilent green.

mmmmm, soilent green <drools>
CAUTION
CAUTION
WA
1097 posts
WA, 1097 posts
15 Feb 2005 7:31am
ill have one, i wanna make a surfy letterbox
i been lookin for a snapped surfboard but a waveboard shud do the trick.
drop me an email and ill come and take one off ur hands...

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CarlBevo
CarlBevo
NSW
609 posts
NSW, 609 posts
15 Feb 2005 10:44am
Nail - not Niall them to some trestles and we can slide em

or

adjust the foot straps for the ultimate light wind board
vert
vert
WA
267 posts
WA, 267 posts
15 Feb 2005 8:56am
could have linked them together accross the spit at pt wallys
just got in, was a nice sess where were you Carl?

wayne
waveslave
waveslave
WA
4263 posts
WA, 4263 posts
15 Feb 2005 9:04am
Hey Ian,
Love ya work!
niall barrett
niall barrett
WA
248 posts
WA, 248 posts
15 Feb 2005 3:13pm
thanks for the ideas, i think i will make a coffin from them so i'm looking for 1 more now for the lid, then when I am transported into the afterlife I will re-explore the delights of polesurfing on the steady cross-off breezes and mast high swells of Nirvana, with all the other lond dead polesurfers... [at least those ones that have good karma---not the ****ers who try to beat up kiters and drop in on them].
kk
kk
WA
953 posts
kk kk
WA, 953 posts
15 Feb 2005 8:56pm
This thread reminds me of a one liner I read somewhere..

Why is it cool to be a wind surfer? Cause you can tie your gear to the top of car car and not worry about it getting stolen
goofster
goofster
WA
26 posts
WA, 26 posts
15 Feb 2005 9:30pm
i've had the same problem , loads of snapped surfboards cluttering up the shed etc...get some colourful gloss paint and ya rugrats and set em loose, adds some colour to the dry garden. as for the pole board, they make a good garden seat, just take the footstraps off and bang a couple of limestone blocks underneath, wicked

goofster
malcthom
malcthom
WA
48 posts
WA, 48 posts
21 Feb 2005 9:50am
Hey Nially

glad you elaborated that it was the old windsurfer BOARDS you were pondering what to do with!!!
waveslave
waveslave
WA
4263 posts
WA, 4263 posts
21 Feb 2005 6:43pm
Take them down to the beach and place them in a tripod configuration.
Then build a bonfire within them and set it ablaze.

Huey the Surf God demands a worthy sacrifice!

This flatspell is doing my head in!
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