Hey, brilliant Morts!! Congrats on 4 pb's and on  a 186km trip....holy Dooley !!!!!

WooHoo Morts, I/m very impressed

Fantastic Jeremy!!!! 4PBs, and you've put us in front of the CST, a captain couldn't ask any more from a team effort.

   Gr8 stuf Morts, 4PBs    

Good going Morts, 4 PBs and huge Ks.

Thanks all, happy to do my bit. On the Steak & red wine recovery program, seems to be working...

Great stuff the Jeremy, unfortunately for all (but me) all good things must come to an end I am back in Sesame Street once again and I've brought some of my Karathastan weather with me.

Congrats on the 4 PB's

Big Ks and 4 PBs is a magic day Morts, sweet as, big congrats Mate 😱😎

Elmo, so great to to have you back in Sesame St....signed Oscar the Grouch.

Shane - what happened, how did you prang/gash the bottom of the  board?

Shane's just sent me some pics,

Still not real sure about this. It's right in the max load area, under the footstraps. If it was in front of the mast I'd say just bog it, but looks like qyite a few fibres have been cut through, and it's also not that obvious just how deep it is.

I think it should be sanded back to the bottom of the gouge tapering out about 30mm or 40mm at the deepest part. Then fiberglassing or carboning over it. Other wise slaming over chop could open it up, and compress the bottom of the board.

Fangy, Shane told me he didn't feel anything, so I guess it must have been something very sharp. Although the initial impact looks fairly wide.

Very surprising this could happen while riding a board and not noticing it

Thanks Mike. Damn that's a nasty gouge! Time to practise them glass n bogging skills Shane

I didn't want to say anything Shane, mainly cos there are a few kiters hanging around up here too that I might have spoken to...

Look forward to catching up when you are here. ( just wait 'til the muppet heads back to Karrathastan and takes the weather as well)

Super effort and congratulations on hard earned 4PBs!

Massive kilometers. Well done!

late congrats Morts , AWESOME.... sorry about your board Shane 

Fantastic day, well done on the KMS and the other 2 pbs Morts.

Sorry to see the damage Shane, hope repair goes well. Just reread your post, it was your new board sorry to see that.

Sitting in the shaping bay now with a couple of layers of glass over the hole.

Must admit I'm very impressed by this board's construction, that deep gouge was stopped dead, at the bottom of the d-cell, by a layer of what looks very much like kevlar. It's rock solid still, no sign of any water getting into the board. Looks like Shane's original thoughts are spot on.

missed that post Morts, great job man!! woow  , some great kkks!

for the 44 use the 5 or 5.5 max, 17-19 Delta max, or any 20-24 weedy