We are heading off to stay at a few caravan parks and i am a bit concerned about leaving my 11'6 by itsel******oes anybody have any good ideas to lock it up either on my car roof racks or to a power pole or something..

Thanks messup...would you recommend the fin box or the leash plug?

I've used these for about 5 years and they work fine.

http://www.stickprotection.com/pro_surf.htm

I use the shorter ones and the steel cables are rigid enough that I can wedge the loose ends under the strap and they stay nice and neat out of the way. No flapping or vibration.

I've also used them to lock the gate of a place we stay at a fair bit. All in the interests of discouraging the opportunistic thief.

If someone was keen to steal my board it would be relatively easy for them to cut the racks off the roof with a hack saw. As we say, these things are more of a deterrent than a thief proof system.

BTW I have a Subaru with roof rails. I put the tie downs around the roof rails and not around the cross bars. The cross bars are held on with a plastic clamp fitting but the roof rails are bolted into the roof. You would have to get through 30mm aluminium box section for the rack to come off the roof.

oliver said...

Hey gorgo,

I've been looking for something like this. Where did you get them. The online store has all three models marked as "temporarily sold out". Maybe they've gone bust.

i tried locally on the goldie and all the shops said they haven't seen them of a few years

Gday,
i bought a pair of "SPT" tiedown straps.They were about $80 I think off ebay.Great peice of mind for a cheap price,2.5m long,with the stainless cable in them,
Robbo

ianr64 said...

Gday,
i bought a pair of "SPT" tiedown straps.They were about $80 I think off ebay.Great peice of mind for a cheap price,2.5m long,with the stainless cable in them,
Robbo

Yep. I've got these too and think they're great.

Th0m0

Also with Gordo's tiedowns ( http://www.stickprotection.com/pro_surf.htm ) you can strap one around your board down near the rear fins (off the roof of your car) and them use a conventional bike lock to fix it to something like a part of your tent or a caravan. It can't be romoved unless you remove the fins which isn't impossible but again a deterant.

This canbe handy if you need to park your car a little bit away from your camp site.

ianr64 said...

Gday,
i bought a pair of "SPT" tiedown straps.They were about $80 I think off ebay.Great peice of mind for a cheap price,2.5m long,with the stainless cable in them,
Robbo

I've got them too-4m-you can use just the 1 strap only with the 4m ones-do the snaking wrap around the board and racks.

On a side note-Bruce Raymond was using them-had his car parked out the front of his place-3 boards on top-the buggers BROKE the top board in order to slide out the two below!

MickV said...

oliver said...

Hey gorgo,

I've been looking for something like this. Where did you get them. The online store has all three models marked as "temporarily sold out". Maybe they've gone bust.

Hi Oliver
SHQ and RPS both sell them.

Mick.

SHQ have the 2.4 one for $80-, I'm picking up a pair of 4 mtr ones tomorrow which I ordered. They might have got in more than the one set. The 2.4 will only do one SUB.

Pete