Damaged nose of rapidfire spitfire. How to fix it?

[Baker]

I found some 2 part epoxy glue in the end and mixed it up with a bit of q-cell, bunged up the hole a treat, sanded it back and will get the local boat guys to put a nice thick finish coat over the whole lot, the give it a wet and dry. PU resin won't matter for that as no foam is exposed.

UV cure resin is useless in the UK, not seen the sun for a month, they should make something that goes off in wind or rain!

[prjwebb]

Haha agree on the wind/rain cure epoxy. Someone get on to Greg Loehr

[Baker]

PRJ - how's the nose on your Spit, mine seems very thin on resin, i've have to repair it about 3 or 4 times now.

[prjwebb]

Mines been fine. I kept cracking the diamond tail though so I ended up sawing it off into a squash haha.
A few little stress cracks on the rails but otherwise it's been solid.

[Baker]

Maybe i should stop surfing the shorebreak and let the spongers have some waves!

[prjwebb]

Ha yeah I'm usually pretty careful with mine. The Spitfire is now my beater board for days like that so we'll see how it handles some more abuse!

[Baker]

Watch out man tourist season starts end of this week...i find they do more damage than rocks!

[prjwebb]

Yeah I know what you mean. I avoid main beaches where possible this time of year. Waves have been so bad it hasn't really mattered so far!

[Matt_s]

septembers not too far off now, I think we are owed some decent waves by then,

im spending the summer vanning around spain and france, still crowded but better chances with the weather right

[prjwebb]

I was tempted to do a France mission but now contemplating saving as much as I can until next May and doing a Maldives trip. Everyone on here having already been is making me jealous!