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From: [e-mail] (Leo Dagum)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: any ding repair tips?
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Date: 25 Jan 93 19:47:48 GMT
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Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
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I guess the moon and stars just haven't been in alignment for me.  You
may recall I just had the fin replaced on my 6'6" thruster, well, I caught
my first wave on the newly fixed board out at Pleasure Point (27th street?)
on a dusk patrol last Saturday.  This had not been a familiar break for me
until then, when I became intimately aware of where the reef begins as I
landed my board straight on the rock and continued head first over the
nose.  This not only left a nice 4" crack on the bottom of the board, but
also succeeded in confirming my wife's suspicion's on my surfing abilities
as this was one of those rare occasions where she was actually watching.
To quote her brother, who also was watching and lives down there, "You
don't usually see surfers fall off in front of their boards."  At least,
not after they've caught the wave anyway.

So this leads me in a roundabout way to my question of the day.  Are
there any special tips for patching up my board.  I've already gotten
some practice from patching my green behemoth but I wasn't too concerned
with the quality of the result there.  I don't know if water got in the
board but I'm letting it dry for a few days anyway.  There's an ugly
brown streak where the glass is cracked, is there a way to get back the
original color?  And how do the pros get their patches to be (a) almost
invisible, and (b) so smooth?  Any advice (other than to quit surfing) will
be gratefully accepted.

- leo