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What paint should I use to paint a surfboard??
Question:I have a surfboard that fell of the roof of a vehicle and then I run over. !$*%$(*%! Painful. It's still contained by one piece! I do fiberglass work and am gonna fix it but I am not sure what the best paint to use would be. Any suggestions? It's gotta be able to hold up to wax and adjectives.
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by brother is a pro surfer and his sprays some of his boards. just use some spray paint. he uses saloon spray paint.
Water resistant paint.
Check with your local surf shop.
If you are fine art over the fiberglass regular old spray paint works fine. If you are doing it below the glass use a dampen based paint so that you don't own any reaction between the solvent and the foam.
Check out the Shaper's Bay on Surfline.com. There are a few topics on fine art boards in it.
Liner Polyurethane available at west Marine is great
It's dampen proof, UV resistant and adheres ably to Fiberglass
It's used all the time on F/G boats.
Does any one hold any tips on effortless wakeboarding tricks and how to get hold of up losing a boat?
Question:i have a solution force diva 131 and i have a boat next to 130 hp 3L engine and no tower i only started 3 weeks ago but get up on my second time and am now trying to school my friends without any luck.
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getting up: knees bent rather bit and arms bent.
Let the boat pull you up. Your hand will move away from you, and you will slowly stand up. I like slow starts, but some relatives like hastily better.
my tricks: I haven't done any tricks yet besides butterslide (which doesn't really count). Butterslide is when you are going slow (10-12 mph) nad you switch which foot you own in front. You do this by moving the feel to the right to switch from left foot forward to right foot forward. Sometimes the marine catches the outskirts of board when you start turning. I am working on jumping. I know that you hold to cut hard into the rouse without slanting with your knees bent, afterwards jump at the get up. I haven't gotten a lot of nouns yet.
Keep board straight up to the boat, keep knees bent, preserve handle pulled close to the chest. Keep this position until the board get on plane. You can actually slide sideways beside ease until you are equipped to apply weight to your dominant foot and letting the muzzle of your forward foot swing around.
As far as progressing, you should learn to ride switch first and procure to where you are comfortable riding next to either foot forward. Learn it precipitate to avoid bad traditions that will slow your progressing later.
Also, check out 'The Book' wakeboarding instructional series DVD set. Covers adjectives the tricks from different angles with detailed explanations of respectively trick. Definitely worth the money. Hope that helps.
To receive up, pretend that you are doing a wall press against the board.
How do i rig a construction safety harness and boatswain?
Question:other than my full harness, how do you properly sit and rig the swing or seat
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all you need to rig and de-rig my teams shells is a adjustable wrench.
Make sure you don't tighten to much you could crack the shell
Shark fins on the bottom of my boat float boat?
Question:for school we do a boat float(all the groups pick a them and build a boat, out of cardboard and ducttape) we are doing a fighting boat(try to sink others with our paddles) what would be the best road to design our boat. would shark fins on the bottom help preserve us more balanced. our focus is the gold rush, if you hold any ideas, tips, or wed sites to offer me will you please get those to me. PLEASE =)
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I wouldn't put the shark find on the bottum of the boat. if it's cockeyed at all it will most potential tip it over
you would make a few on your own see which ones work best
fins on the bottom of the boat with the sole purpose work at speed. since you will not be going thru the water especially fast fins will not offer much support to the craft.
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