This is the second time i am having micro bleeding under my callouses due to too long harness lines and 5 hours of bump&jump yesterday, and this time its much more painful, i can only hold the boom with my fingers meaning i cant jump and jibes are painful. Now callouses are going out when i close my palm so they are being squeezed between the boom and my fingers. Even closing my fist hurts now.

I shaved some dead skin to make it softer but it seems its hard inside too when trying to squeeze from sides (it hurts a lot doing that).
I think it will be ok if i can somehow keep them not folding out when i close my palm, tried to use a tight band but didn't work.
Gloves didn't help much, its too late i guess.
Do you have any suggestions?

Take up windfoiling

Mine look identical to yours. Although most will disagree, cut them off with a surgical knife. Personally, I just bit mine off every couple off months. Callouses are great because they stop you getting blisters, but they do need a bit of maintenance ever now then.

p.s. If they hurt on the day, shorten your lines by just 1cm or 2cm to help reduce hand pressure. (I hope I'm teaching my granny to suck eggs)

Just keep sailing your hands will toughen up.. Back in the day our hands would bleed from sailing. It goes away.

LeeD said..
Don't sail 5 hours.

How can you say that!! Sea Lotus is my god.

" A man got's to know his limitations"

LeeD said..
" A man got's to know his limitations"

Last 4 days of wind for the holiday, no wind for one week prior to that, so my limit is about amount of pain i can deal with :)

get nail clippers and trim down the callouses every week or two.

no pain to trim .. no pain when sailing.

easy.

you need to keep them trimmed before they get too large and then the skin/callous gets pulled away and bleeds underneath.

at this point however (damage already done with bleeding underneath), I would do a trim and just wait until it heals underneath .. then get back on track with regular trimming with the nail clippers.

done this for 20 years. all good.

I used gilette mach 3 razors :) couldn't reach tight areas and took long but works for now.
I was afraid to go deep last time but this time i went deeper and its much better now.

Are we actually talking about this?

Seriously

Act like a man and keep on windsurfing ...