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the holes are filled and
smoothed. the breaks are
splinted. now wrap the whole
thing in fiberglass, cut into the
perfect shape, just as if you
were making a new board. an inch
or two of over hang to let the
resin run off. remember to make
sure your board is level in both
directions. remember to get your
glue/resin mixture exactly right.
remember to add secret additives
to make sanding easier. remember
to wear the right kind of mask.
remember to wear old clothes
cause you’ll ALWAYS get gook on

so the basics are clear. you glue
the board back together
reinforcing it however you can.
at this point it’s all about the
little details. a rough job would
be fine just so it not that way
around the rails, otherwise it’s
bloody thighs time. this photo
shows the only thing I know that
doesn’t stick to epoxy- the
super hi tech sheathing substrate
material known as ‘ wax paper’. The
stuff is incredible. You can use
it to manipulate stuff into big
holes or patch gouges on the
rails, and then just wrap with

There was this cool project
planned in Santa Barbara that
would show the increasing water
levels in the city if Greenland
turned into slush.

However, the project has been
generating controversy, because
real estate developers realized
that any buildings on the “wrong
side” of the light blue
line would be hard to sell. Doh!

I couldn’t get the sander photo to
attach, so I’m attaching this
pretty water photo instead.
sander is big and red and very
powerful. more like a giant
grinder with a paddle switch for
speed control. this photo has
nothing to do with grinder/sander
but at least the photo went
through.

even gotten to the sanding part
yet. observe the sanding tool (
industry standard ), you can
easily change the grit amounts (
smallest to highest). with epoxy
that contains a sanding additive
I go from 80/120/220/400 really
quickly. after that it becomes
‘buffing’ and a
different thing attaches to the
same tool.

once the wholes are patched and
smoothed with whatever you’ve got
( not critical ) it’s time to lay
out your glass. this is
structural and is worth planning
out. i always pretend it’s really
important and not just a
surfboard, and use splints as
inspiration, and also doing it in
such a way that if it breaks
again, it won’t be in that spot-
so ‘over engineering’ may also be
inspiration. in this case I’m
lining the break with several
small patches of fiberglass to
start with, with the idea that

This summer Mary Jo and I spent a
life altering 2 weeks in the
Sacred Valley of Peru. We
traveled to scared sites with the
Q’ero, direct descendants of
the Inka and master shamans of
the high Andes and received
karpays (shamanic initiatory
rites of passage). In the Inka
tradition, a shaman-in-training
is given rites of passage, which
are energetic transmissions that
link them to the lineage of
medicine men and women that came
before them. At each sacred site
a descpacho was preformed. This

so here we have the bottom of the
board, after it has been glued
together. I have taken a grinder
and with a thin wheel cut a long
skinny hole along the the
stringer, just big enough to slip
a 2 foot long long piece of thin
aluminum into to act as a brace.
surfopedics. the integrity of the
stringer has been compromised so
we need to strengthen the whole
thing. The only problem with this
method would be if the board
broke apart again and somehow the
exposed pointy piece of metal
somehow became dangerous… Shouldn’t