My mate has quiver bag for sale. It's at 2nd wind (in Perth) on consignment if you want to have a look.

Cheers
Brett

Hi X-man,

I would recommend you get a separate board bag and sail bag. I used to pack everything into one bag but given that airlines now don't take bags over 32 kgs it's easier to split gear.

Neil Pryde makes some great quiverbags. They are about $280 and fit 3 masts plus 5 to 6 sails, wetsuit, harness, extensions etc.. All that will probably be about 20 to 30 kgs.

As for board bags, again Pryde has some decent bags with enough padding for flying. They come in single and double size. Double usually fits 2 boards + a boom. Or get a single bag for a board plus boom. I usually pack everything with some buggle wrap and a few towels for extra padding.

I am sure other companies make great bags too... make sure though look for quality zippers (YKK is a good brand) with "big teeth". Also make sure there is enough padding on the tip and rails.

Definitely take all your gear to the shop and try it out first. Never force any zippers and absolutley make sure you take out that valve screw out of your board.

Also, never overpack a bag... the friendly guys and gals at the airport will definelty make you re-pack if they don't like the total weight... as I said usually bags are not allowed to be over 32kgs due to OHS regulations. make sure you check specifics with the airline.

hope this helps...

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qwerty Posted - 30/03/2006 : 13:45:17 X-man, if you only have 2 sails, just roll them up together and stuff them in the one sail bag (the bigger of the two obviously).
They now will only take up the same room as 1 sail. Take the other sail bag with you and seperate them when you get there.

And don't take a separate bag for clothes. It's a waste of space. Just stuff all your clothes in your board bag. It doubles as padding as well.

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I was told that you shouldn't take the valve out completely, but definately loosen it so that it is no longer sealed.
The reason for not leaving it sealed is not necessarily because of temperature, but because of pressure changes. Even though the cargo hold of most commercial planes is pressurized along with the cabin, they're not pressurized at sea level (or airport level), but at a few thousand feet. Because (pressure1 x volume1)/temperature1=(pressure2 x volume2)/temperature2, as the aircraft climbs and the air pressure in the hold decreases to a cruising pressure, if your board was sealed, ie. v1 = v2 and the reduction in temperature (in degrees Kelvin) isn't that great, basically the pressure inside the board increases. The epoxy skin is likely to separate from the core. If, as a serious student of science, you want to investigate this, take a packet of chips into the plane, noting how "inflated" it seems at the airport, the watch how the bag expands as the aircraft climbs. If your rigid board, which contains heaps of gas, wasn't allowed to vent that gas to realease pressure in the board, you are likely to have it either want to blow up like a balloon, or break the eggshell of epoxy. Isn't science fun??

Maybe this could be a good way for Harrow to get the water out of his board- by atmosheric pressure reduction therapy. Only costs a few plane fares.

Pugs likes science

soooo...... if a man was in the unpressurised cargo hold for the trip would he explode from say 90 litres of volume to a lot more or would he just die of lack of oxygen. i've heard some people have survived!
and none of my vacuum bagged, coremat, divinycell, styro boards ever exploded in an aircraft.
science is cool in theory.

task 1. try to wreck a board by driving over it repeatedly with your car. it's a hard, hard ask. sh1t they're tough!!!!
altitude? i don't think so.
....but prove me wrong.

Greenleader, remember its only the gases in your 90 litre man that would expand. Most of him is made up of water and solids. So if he held his breath and clenched his butt ring to keep all the fart gas in, that part of him would expand.
People die at high altitude because the pressure of oxygen (partial pressure) is too low for there to be adequate bonding of oxygen to the haemoglobin in their blood (to simplify it a bit). And I'm not denying that boards may be strong enough to survive pretty rough compression from the outside, ie driving over it. The core would support the deck to resist that kind of force. But that's different to increased pressure on the inside of the board, like the reverse of vacuum bagging. I guess different materials and constructions have different bonding strengths to resist delaminating. I'm not questioning that your boards have survived, Greenleader, but if the manufacturers of other boards think there's a risk of delaminating so they put a valve in, my guess is that they aren't doing it just for fun.
And X-man, I had already allowed for the drop in temperature, assuming that the board is loaded into the plane at about 20 C and that it cools to 0 C. The hold probably doesn't get to freezing, but I have been generous. The dogs and cats in the hold tend not to freeze. The temperature change only reduced the board volume by 7%, but the atmospheric pressure change increases the volume by 20%.
So, how much were those board bags again?

If it doesn't have a vent screw drill a small hole in it and just araldite it up afterwards.