best mate saw his brand new 8.6 OD take off from the beach and land perfectly on my neatly upwards positionned foil.... ( I looked away for a moment....)
did the same as you too, swung a brand new board just coming out of the shop into the corner of the wall.....

Stuck for a 490 i chucked an old one piece 490 into my 8m Warp. Cranked it down, tensioned the outhaul. Stood it up, checked it. Yep looks ok n rotates. Carried it to the board. Clicked the euro pin together. Then "BANG" the mast blew up just as i clicked extension to base. I mustve jumped about 8ft in the air. Luckily No damage to the sail. Just my boardies n my mast.

I had one board blow of the car racks in a concrete car park. It wasn't bagged so ended up with a big crack on the side. Fortunately it was a cheap 22nd hand board.

i had another fall of the overhead rack in my garage, it was in a bag, so only got a few bruises.

Yep

Backed into garage with boards on roof - tore roofracks off the car so imagine the boards!!!
Yep, fin damage only :)
Internal, who knows......

funny stories...mine was tying the board to the roof and i dropped the tie downstrap, told my self not to leave board un attended!! didn't listen !!!!!!!!!! went the quick look and grab and off she sailed into the air to happily land with a thud against a winnebago in the carpark,,shocked the person in the van big time , who came out guns blazing! got off lightly no damage to van luckily

perhaps, but we need the story

FamIly trip to Perth, I had improvised a rack on my trailer and had a few boards strapped on it. The racks were too widely spaced and I lost a board down the highway. Didn't realise until a car overtook me waving frantically. Thankfully, it didn't end up in someone's windscreen. Found it in the bushes a few km's back with only one puncture wound from a stick. Board was Ratz's old Isonic 111 that I bought off him for a couple of cartons; served me well for another year or so of abuse after that

Mastbender said.. >>>
All my worst damage on any board I've ever had, all the way back to the late 60's, has had nothing to do with the water.

My worst damage was water caused, waves slammed the board onto big rocks. That used to happen a lot before leg ropes!

only ego damage but I seen Gregob get shrink wrapped behind his sail once , looked similar to this -minus the breasts

HotBodMon said..
only ego damage but I seen Gregob get shrink wrapped behind his sail once , looked similar to this -minus the breasts

I did that once in 1 foot of water , nearly fkn drowned , scared the sh.t outta me !

Mark _australia said..
and just where do we buy these shrink wrapped perfect specimens....?

Specimens r us ?

Imax1 said..

HotBodMon said..
only ego damage but I seen Gregob get shrink wrapped behind his sail once , looked similar to this -minus the breasts

I did that once in 1 foot of water , nearly fkn drowned , scared the sh.t outta me !

Same !! Twisted in lines also ,Fortunately for Gregob it was on the way down to the waters edge when a long lasting strong gust blew and tombstoned him against a guard rail. Nothin I could do but stare in amusement

Put my board on the roof racks in the driveway to dry out. It was the only sunny spot.
An hour later I jumped in the car and drove off. I barely noticed the clunk as it flew off and bashed into the kerb. I was half way down the road before it occured to me what it might have been.

I find that if you repair a ding well enough that you can't see it you eventually forget what a gormless twat you are.

Sparky said..
Back in the day, my Bombora trifin blew off the car, flew 20 foot through the air and smashed down to the Tarmac. It then rolled at least 20 times along the roughest bit of road then came to a rest against a tree.

No damage.

Same thing with an old Bombora X-IT where I was in such a rush to get to the beach I forgot to tie it on. First corner I got to it slid off the roof and after the fin snapped off it continued to slide down the road ending up with barely a scratch on it.

many years ago at 17 & alot of maccas shifts took my brand new gaastra race sail & mast out for it's maiden voyage in gusty 30+knot westerly, derigging wind huge gust & swung a good 120 deg picked me & sail up & threw us across carpark (i wasnt letting go). Broke mast, shredded luff, car & ego, driver was sitting in car & shat himself when mohawked punk kid & sail got plastered across his windscreen out of no where. Mast broke in a way so that i had to break it again in 2 spots to get it out to avoid completely destroying sail, thankfully driver decided not to pursue me for damages while watching me bash sail against metal pole to break mast, guess I looked pretty shattered... or crazy.

& this is why i dont kite

& bloody hell masts are hard to break when you are trying.

I think my only other daft moment was a few years ago I decided to throw my big slalom board up on storage rack... throw??? Of course it returned to sender, despatched me with the same contempt I showed it & crushed the rail.

oh & learning to use/regulate pressures in nail gun not the wisest idea around sailboards.