i got an old f2 wave board. it is totally stuffed.

does anyone know if it is possible to remove the plastic and turn it into a glass board?

without the plastic will it snap in two? has anyone done this type of thing before.

gestalt.

i knew someone who was going to make a business out of turning windsurfing boards into surfboards. Spoke to a mate who made good windsurfing boards and kit boards and he thought it was a bad idea - strength, weight, flex, rocker line. Not sure if he ever did it.

I'd still give it a go though! Make it like a "tuff lite" board...

Watch out for the staples in them!!!

i had to remove some of the plastic to reapair mine. it was an f2 axxis..**** construction... there was no carbon. First of all the mast track gave way that was fine whacked a new one in and glassed over the plastic. good as new.

Then the area under the front strap went soft on the jumping side and the seams split open so i had to cut bits off and tried to get the fantastic plastic off. not easy. There is this funny kind of foam underneath it with a layer of chop strand glass holding it in place. The foam didnt seem as tough as divinicell and wouldnt sand it went gooey it had standard esky type foam under that which i replaced in the area with a whole bunch of quecell mixed with epoxy. Had smoke coming out the f#$%cker but it was hard as a rock.

not sure what the staples were doing but they were definatley in there.

my advice... throw it in the bin and get something else.

after all these repairs the seams just kept splitting in other places. same thing happened to 3 other f2's in my area and we dont even have surf.

well all i can say is all of the above.

the mast track has been rolled and then repaired with carbon and lots of resin.

the fin box has been rolled and repaired with carbon and lots of resin.

there appears there must have been a big hole in front of the foot straps because that has been filled in with carbon and lots of resin.

the seams on the rail are all starting to split. and on and on and on.

so my plan is to grab the angle grinder and shave the baby. then rout out the boxes. stick some woodies in and resin it all back together.

finishing it off with glass and a carbon stringer. will put plywood under the pads.

it is just for fun. will probably take a long time and once complete at 84lt will prob only be used every 2 months or so. as i was given the board (thanks curac) i got nothing to lose and it will be cheaper than buying a new wave board.

Comrade Getsalt

I am in favour of the throw out method.
I spent the windless part of an entire season trying to do what you want to do.
In the end i had a board that was TOO heavy, didn't plain, didn't carve, didn't catch waves. In fact all the board did was make me miss the opportunity to catch some waves when the conditions were firing.

As a result I cut the bastard up and made it into a chair (A very heavy chair mind you) but its the BEST windsurfing chair I have ever sat on !

Kremlin

I was going to reglass an f2 sputnik which had de-laminated but I found cleanly getting the skin off and preserving the foam core was not so easy and the core was quite wet. In the end it was fun cutting it up into many small pieces with a circular saw. Interestingly there was quite a bit of aluminium inside and all carbon.

On a similar note when these plastic coated boards "split" at the seams are they still water tight? ie. is the glass layer underneath still intact?

Malcolm