Repairing & Painting a Paddleboard

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In this clip we're going to go over just one different type of repair. This stand up surf board is actually eleven foot, six, and you know, most surf boards are about six feet long, somewhere in between there. If you've got a long board you know, generally you won't find anything much bigger than about you know, nine to ten feet. Stand ups' are running now from like nine all the way up to about fourteen feet long. Some of the longer distance ones are even up to about eighteen to nineteen feet but those are like Laird Hamilton out in Hawaii going from island to island, that's crazy! But, these boards are huge, their lighter than they look but they've got to be really buoyant and their hard to maneuver around with. So, you're going to get a lot of cosmetic stuff like scratches on the rails and you know, you're going to see people dragging them a lot if they're being used all the time. So, one big thing that happens is when you're getting in and out of the water, you can see right here on the bottom, a lot of the kids that we sort of use these boards with have been just dragging them once they get out of the water. And, this is fine right here, all it's done is basically taken off the top layer of paint, and you know, we'll get a nice sort of cream off white colored paint. We'll paint right back over this and it's good. But, if you allow this to happen long enough, eventually this is going to get really down into the fibers, you can see it's almost started to. So, what you're going to do in that event is you know, use a piece of fiberglass cloth like this, and use the appropriate resin composites and you'll actually put another layer of fiberglass on it and we're not going to do it quite yet, because we're about to put this guy in the water. Bu, pretty much just like you see right here, you're going to add this on, put the resin over it, wait for it to dry and then sand out the sides around it, you know, and put that off white coat over it, and boom your board is good as new, ready to rock.

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