Wax????

Just remembered another another idea, an old tip for putting dogs and kids on the end of a board with no grip.
Use a non-slip bath grip, the ones with suction cups on the bottom.
May look a bit odd (unless you got a nice one with ducks or something!).
Comes of easy post surf and might even add a bit of comfort to the feet.

I hate deck grips. Even on my SUP.

Anyway, I don't bother with that base coat/top coat crap. I just use Sex Wax in appropriate temperature gradient.

I only clean the wax off when it starts moving under my toes during turns so my boards do get pretty grimy looking. I use a wax comb every couple of sessions rather than rewax so that does a little of the renewal job. A new wax job should stay looking good for a few weeks though.

When it's time to remove the wax completely I scrape off as much as possible with the comb (its a pretty easy job), then remove the rest with kitchen paper towel and turps, and finally get rid of the turps residue with metho. Taadaaah! The boards in showroom condition. Apart from the crack. And dings. And dodgy shed repairs. Anyway, the whole job takes maybe 10-15 minutes. Quick and easy.

hope that helps.

Thanks.
What do you use apart from turps to remove the wax?

I think u may be over complicating it.
wax it...surf it.
when the wax gets too dirty or too thick scrap it off with a plastic scrapper and wipe with metho and re wax it!

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Nozza said..
Thanks.
What do you use apart from turps to remove the wax?

Sit the board in the sun to soften the wax. If at night, run a hair dryer over sections and scrape it off (in said sections).
i then grab a rag and wax and grease remover from the paint isle in Bunnings. Wipe it down with that, then wash/wipe with a wet rag to clean the wax n grease remover off... then whack your new wax on.
base coat then top coat... depending on your preference.
Personally, I just tend to use 'tropical' or similar year round.... then I don't worry about having a base coat and a top coat, it's all the same. Slipping off the board is the least of my worries when surfing

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obct said..
Okay, I'll try a serious answer, MR and I have a mate called Mick, he recently scored a 10.6 Ian Goodacre Board that's a real honey, but the guy had deck grip all over it from nose to tail. Apart the the extra weight, Mick found that he was getting blisters on his knees from the foam deck grip, I figure any other deck treatment will
likly do the same

but wait, there's more, I also figure that if Mick was wearing a steamer, it probably would not matter. So my serious answer is, if you use an abrasive deck treatment to keep your board pretty, then always wear a steamer

There's a bit more to that story. He's just gone and removed all the deck grip pads from the edges, so it's got a 200mm wide strip down the centre of deck grip and the remaining surface is now waxed....

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obct said..
Okay, I'll try a serious answer, MR and I have a mate called Mick, he recently scored a 10.6 Ian Goodacre Board that's a real honey, but the guy had deck grip all over it from nose to tail. Apart the the extra weight, Mick found that he was getting blisters on his knees from the foam deck grip, I figure any other deck treatment will
likly do the same

but wait, there's more, I also figure that if Mick was wearing a steamer, it probably would not matter. So my serious answer is, if you use an abrasive deck treatment to keep your board pretty, then always wear a steamer

I find this difficult to believe as I was of the understanding that all blokes from Sydney have callouses on their knees and blokes from Queensland put on dresses when there not wear steamers in the 20C water

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obct said..
Serious question Tux, is a 3x2 wetty doable in the Torquay area around May?

Yes just piss in it first

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obct said..
I piss in them before during and after, anyone want to borrow a wetty?

You blokes want to be careful, if he's not managed to squeeze one out before he goes in he'll crap in it too.....

Wow this went south quick haha

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obct said..
I piss in them before during and after, anyone want to borrow a wetty?

I spent a lot of years sailing skiffs with Helmy.
This generally happened once or twice a week, on Saturday and / or Sunday.
You would bring your sailing gear - wetsuit, booties, gloves, trap belt down in your waterproof sailing bag.
Remove it from the bag, put it on, go out and race, piss in it, sweat in it, whatever.
You would then come in, shower, possibly still in the gear, or you possibly abandoned it in the car park, put it back in the waterproof sailing bag, and take it home.
Apparently some people took it out of the bag, washed and dried it, then put it back in the bag, ready for the next sailing adventure.
Being a busy chap, this seemed like a total waste of time, very inefficient, when you could just leave it in the bag, and there it was, ready to go next time.
Some of my fellow skiff sailors suggested this made it smell bad, but I just took this as boyish banter and general good humoured fun.
I am sure at least twice, my sailing bag disappeared over winter , causing me to buy all new gear. Helmy denied any knowledge of what the fate of my sailing gear could have been.
Now I am old and sensible, I have replaced the sailing bag with my VW van.
My wettie, unwashed, is piled carefully in the back with booties, whatever else.
Possibly hung from racks I have under the roof, but towels get preference on those.
Winter tests things in Melbourne, but the bootie warmers I think I mentioned earlier, help the drying.
Eldest daughter has commented when I have dropped her off at the station "Something smells in here, really quite bad Dad".

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obct said..
Serious question Tux, is a 3x2 wetty doable in the Torquay area around May?

The reason I ask is because I want to drive down there for one of my monthly meetings rather than fly. The net meeting is April 10, but that's out of the question because it's school hols, so the next before the dead of winter is May.

I would say yes...water is still plenty warm...I;m in a short john or shorts and 1mm top still...hit me up when your coming down we'll go surf bells or somewhere better...

Trim boards were invented by wax companies.

Yeah less pads the better...tropical wax if your applying a base coat in the neat of summer & after that winter wax. But generally a winter wax will be fine in most parts of Oz. I just got back from Taiwan with an interesting difference to say Indo. Water about 25c, air temp 19-24. My board was already applied with a tropical base coat & light winter softcoat, The airtemp would not allow indo topcoat, only the little bit of Cream winter wax I had....sometimes it pays to have a quiver of wax, people who tell you diff wax temps are a hoax are wrong...

Have you used it Darth?
would like to hear a review about it, I wonder if it would rip you gut up without a wetsuit.