Ok, so two days after I got my fish back from Cholowin (the guy who repaired all of our boards, after that unfortunate, tragic event that claimed all three of the boards in my quiver), I managed to run the fish into the rocks at Burros, putting a nasty 2 foot gauge in the bottom. Cholowin fixed that up as well. 5 days ago, I was putting the fish away, in my extra-bedroom when I lifted it up just a tad too high and Thwap!, I had stuck the board into the ceiling fan, chopping off a small part of the nose and putting in a 6 inch gauge about 4 inches below the nose-tip. A nice deep symmetrical gauge. ouch. I quickly patched it up with a half-ass job using boat resin. Yesterday, I pulled out the Flyer II, for some short board action and dinged the nose on the way out the door and took off the nose-tip. not quite hitting foam, but close enough to warrant a patch job.
It’s official. I am not to be trusted with boards. Any new boards I get go directly from the ocean to a board bag. I can’t image what I’d do to a nice finished board with fancy graphics. I think both the fish and the Flyer II now have more band-aids then actual board.
