Devestated, lost a brand new board and roof rack on the way home from the west coast otoday. Can anyone recomend a good melbourne based repairer. The board is pretty beaten up around the tail area, fin box is split, can see foam, it has a fair crease across the tail, not sure its repairable but any advice appreciated.

BerserkWarrior said...
Zak Surfboards in Thornbury or Oke somewhere down in the south eastern suburbs.

Thanks

After same thing happened to a friend with 2 surf skis on the rack, I always put the ties thru the roof rack mounting rail of the vehicle. Not sure if that is any better, but make me feel a bit better.

Thanks all, 25 years of tying boards to roof racks and never an issue. The roofracks were holden factory and about 8 years old, The metal clip into the door well snapped and ten feet of lift took out the back rack. No rails on this vehicle but agreed i was lucky it took off in the left lane and didnt hit anyone or anything It was run over by a truck at low speed as i was running back to it and it survived, so can atest to this brands bullet proof contruction.
Thanks to the replies regards repairs and contacts.

breakzmaker said..

Pokalde said... I always put the ties thru the roof rack mounting rail of the vehicle. Not sure if that is any better, but make me feel a bit better.

its infinitely better, lets call it double redundancy.



you should only use the racks to support the load, never ever just tie them to the rack alone! double redundancy....

On my old jeep I always tied the tie downs through the loop on the roof rack mounting rail. 1999 jeep with factory roof racks.
but on my new suv the outlander. they are rino racks (pictured below.) installed there isn't a loop or anything to tie through so the only way I tie the boards down is looping over and under the cross bar... I do wonder what other options there are as there is often 4, 14 foot race boards bouncing along on them in 20 plus knot winds highway driving.. I liked the flimsy old jeep ones better myself.

wazsup said..
not sure its repairable but any advice appreciated.

Actually, nearly everything is repairable as long as water has not soaked up the blank...
I know this kind of damage can be devastating (had a board drossed on a jetty after my leash broke), but it is suprizingly repairable.