I HAD THE biggest catapult today after hitting a submerged fishing bin today ..i was fully powered up and probably doing 50-55 kms /hour
then there it was ...bang all over before I knew it ...funny how the boom bent on both sides ..?

I guess i was lucky it was a alloy boom ..and bent ...i got real sore shoulders and neck ..had a helmet on .

shall i try straighten it ? ...or is it a gonna .....haven't had a good look at it yet ...

i usually use a carbon boom ..but just happen to grab this one cause it was on top ...
bad move I guess ,But it might of softened the blow ...
i remember my face plant ...but with the helmet on it did stop my head from going into the water ...so they have their goods and bads .
**** it hurt .

Yep now thats a solid hit ! !

Imax1 said..
No way to straightening.
Id say it was closer to 60

yep your right ..just tried ...but its all out of shape ..bent near the head too.....fee uck ed ..

looks like I'm looking for a 160-210 ,i use it for my little ones .

I recon more painful ...check this shot out ...it's cactus ...

whats a Z boom I'm not old enough to remember that one ..LOL

I think I may have the front end of one in the roof of my shed.

From a technical box head view about aluminium , which I know a little but enough to get into trouble about ,
The technical meaning of alloy is , a mixture of metals , Now were over that ....,
Aluminium is produced in three ways , cast , which is totally crap , forged , it's great but not used in booms , and extruded .
Boom type material .
There are variants to alloy tube and all have longways strain . Easy to crush, hard to bend.
When anodised , ( rust resistant shell ) , ( boom tube ) , produces an even stiffer tube , a tiny bit , but now hates bending even more . This is done after bending .
To sum up , after extensive waffle , I would not try to straighten bent alloy boom of more than a couple degrees , and even then , would seriously weaken the tube .

Tardy said..

gavnwend said..
Tardy did you get your stumble on Gopro!.Thats just bad luck hope all good.

no go pro footage ...but i could reenact it ...maybe I'll hit a manta in shark bay in 6 weeks .HOPE NOT

.i have barnacle scraps on my Patrik .
the board went over it then the fin fetched up ..then face plant time .Just glad i didn't knock out ..

mike I'll bring my end over for ya ... ha.i didn't really like the small diameter arms ...sore hands after a while ..

When you reenact it use the same bent boom upside down. Just saying...

The worst story I've heard was a friend of mine. He was saling at mach 1 and he hit something and planted.

The something was a a big box, like 4 X 4 square meters...
The something in the box were osters.

The dude had over 50 stiches over is helbow, and harms.

Stupid "fisherman"...

Mark _australia said..
I want to know what a fishing bin is?

Me too, maybe a floating bait tank/barge?

Tardy said..

Mastbender said..

Mark _australia said..
I want to know what a fishing bin is?

Me too, maybe a floating bait tank/barge?

yep you got it ,plastic ...about 1 metre by 1metre with lid on with the water over lapping the lid ...so you can only see it when your right on top of it .
sun in my eyes heading into the wind ,
i did have a 3 hour session in perfectly flat water ,so can't complain ...

sparky ..great idea , lol

Where are these things located, i.e. where were you sailing? Do they have marker buoys on them to show where they are?

I ran over a kiteboard once because you couldn't see the stupid thing floating upside down as its colour just blended with the water, which was surprising as I think it was a dark red or brown.

No, the kiteboard was floating upside down. The kiter was about 20 metres downwind, fiddling with his kite. I was pretty angry that he had just left his board floating around like that, but I am guessing he was a beginner and struggling with his kite.. which happens.

It left my new board with a nice gouge that went for about 40cm near the tail, but luckily it didn't seem to penetrate the divinycell layer. I just filled it later. I figure that this would happen with a new board some day, so at least it wasn't too bad.

You'd be out a lot more money if that was a carbon boom. Bet your pocket book is thanking you now.

djl070 said..

FormulaNova said..

Tardy said..

Imax1 said..
No way to straightening.
Id say it was closer to 60

yep your right ..just tried ...but its all out of shape ..bent near the head too.....fee uck ed ..

looks like I'm looking for a 160-210 ,i use it for my little ones .

The aluminium they use for booms seems to be hardened in some way, so its unlikely to bend back, although I have had someone bend back the arms of an alloy boom, but not quite that bent as yours!

I wonder if carbon would have broken or just made it even more painful for you?

Speaking from experience it is more painful on the hip pocket

I'm impressed that the back-end stayed intact. I broke the head on a chinook boom, and the tailpiece followed and snapped like a twig.

At least with the Chinook, once I put a new head on it, and reinforce the tailpiece, it should be good to go. I am tempted to make a mod to the tailpiece and make it either a touch longer or with it a bit more beefed up.

I had an idiot fisherman trawling through the river on Monday with a long line out the back of his boat, right through those of us who were foiling. I was going hard up wind on the foils as he went in front of me. I realised very late he had a line out the back at about head height and had to crash on purpose to avoid hitting it. What did they do after seeing me crash to avoid their trawling line? Nothing, just kept on going...****ing fishermen..

Tardy said in his post he was using an alloy boom. So Tardy, could you reiterate this for us. After all, this is your boom. Thx!

By the way I had an alloy boom as well Tardy that bent in that exact spot. I would of thought the carbon boom would have just snapped and broke in 2 pieces with enough force. My experience with alloy is it bends when a blunt force attacks it. So that pic looks like the behavior of alloy bending in my own opinion. Based on your description, you slammed that boom down hard at full speed. Looking closer at your boom tail, that looks like alloy to me.