Repair

Question
I own a starboard carve 144 which requires a small repair job, due to a ding centrally positioned on the underside of the board. the plastic coating has been punctured leaving the polystyrene material exposed. The puncture hole is approximately inch by inch. Having asked a few people I am informed it is easy enough to repair and can be done by myself. Someone has recommended car body filler (not polyester based due to chemical reaction). Will plastic padding chemical metal do the job. I obviously want to avoid any reaction between materials and want to make sure before I attempt any sort of repair.

I look forward to your response.

Kind Regards

Answer
I take it this is a windsurf board; I'm a surfer not windsurfer but I think the principles will be the same!

If you use car stuff or plastic padding you'll end up with an ugly yellow repair and it's not made for the job. Visit www.seabase.com and check out their kits, I've got one of the tubs which contains everything you neeed. Surf shops will sell them too, should be about a tenner. eBay - search for Ding All or Solarez for smaller tubes suitable for one repair.

The Ding Repair Scriptures book is the definitive guide to how to repair dings; for this little one you probably don't need that much information but it's the best book around anyway. Again you can get it online somewhere like a1surf.com or other online surfshops.

Hope that's enough info for you and good luck with it.