Bender has made a good thread about what gear we all have ,
I thought i would be good to have thread for all the fallen soldiers !
in the last year i have written off
2 wave boards
3 masts ( one of which was still under warranty )
3 sails
3 booms.
Most of the stuff was old n due for replacement, but it still sux to break stuff! 
One 11 year old 430 / 35% mast broke while sailing
The 7 year old sail it was rigged with got a bit damaged in the process esp while swimming to the shore.
Replaced both mast and sail.
i broke:
drop shape mast 460 75%
snaped HPL boom
and a small tear in my North warp f2006 5.0
Ripped a panel in my NP RS6 7.2 when I fell through it, harness hook first, drifting in about 2 knots of wind.
Bent 2 booms when my rig decided to emulate a trebuchet and throw me as far as it could. I may have to try to stop depth sounding with my board. It tends to stop very quickly.
Managed to make one good(but a little twisted) boom, again catapulted and went through a panel in my KA Kult.
To Do List:
buy new booms
buy new sail
get sail repaired
totally delaminated my 2001 JP wave after one too many bellyflops a couple of months ago
harness hook through my beloved NP Search 5m in that last big blow - at the sailmakers now
its an expensive sport i reckon
2 booms snapped, 1 mast broken, 2 bases and over 20 decent dings in my boards.
Gear is getting way to expensive for this sort of thing to keep happening.
Not much last year. 1 430 drop shaped mast broke at the ferrule. 1 boge universal failed. 2 or 3 minor board dings and some sail dents.
Oh and my booties fell to bits :)
That's the first year I haven't trashed a fin.
Obviously I'm not trying hard enough. Time to start looping :)
Took the nose of my JP, got it repaired and then did it again. Tore a hole in my arrows sail not even sure how i managed that one.
pretty much all my gear is getting worn now, looking to replace next summer; im saving my pennies
My beloved 6.2 NP RS4 had the internal ripped out of it inside the luf tube
But considering it was a second hand sail when I got it and had done conservatively 2500km
and had many spectacular Elmo moments
on it I can't complain.
Still miss it though, it was my bread and butter sail which I used the most.
Oh probably trashed 2 maybe 3 fins
Only a sail tear (30cm near clew)
Oh and a rotator cuff that I ****ed and I know which I'd rather break ... 20 sails 
How the bl00dy hell can I get a red thumb for saying I did a serious injury, and I'd rather bust 20 sails than hurt myself and not be able to sail?
There is some f^&$ing weirdos on here
A couple of people mentioned drop masts.
is that teardrop shaped windsurfer masts?
Ive never seen or heard of those before
I've had a good ran the last few years, I only broke one boom last season which was getting pretty long in the tooth.
From 05-07 I had a shocker though. 3 x 490 masts (1 stupidity, 2 due to crap manufacturing). 2 x 430 masts (stupidity - well trying silly things) and 4 sails (they were getting old and all went in pretty big surf conditions).
1X 460 mast= cactus! and a few battle scars on the board.
Worst one was a brand new NP excess that got run over.......the result was a tear near the leech- trashed befroe it even hit the water!
Hey Hardie,Was that the brand new sail that you ran into the chanel marker with?
Just enquiring,thats all.[}:)]
Tore the clew out of one sail
Ropes the other one in half
Broke 4 masts
1 extension
1 base
Snaped one board
3 harness lines
And 1 pair of jocks
2 NP X3 masts (caught in shore break)
1 NP X6 (no idea)
1 old X3 boom (old)
1 hydro boom (95kg too heavy for aluminium)
1x3 boom (warranty replace), broke again (warranty +upgrade to x6), broke again, (warranty replace) broke again, (warranty + upgrade to X9) so far so good.
1 starboard carve, snapped in half on bad landings
1 NP V8 sail (cam breakage + rippage)
1 north boom (caught in shore break)
1 gaasta sail (old and rippage)
mast foot
*more like about last year and a half
I have only broken 1 tendon.
2 downhaul ropes.
about 10 inhaul ropes.
Dinged 2 boards, not mine..
Small rip in my 5.3..
Bent a boom.
Took 1cm off my fin on a reef.
O yer and about 20 hook dings in my sails..
* hey all the W.A guys, i can repair sails now and dings in boards, PM me if you need some work done..............
.........................no wind eh ?
1 boom - 3yrs old and many a flat hooked in landing
1 fin - reef at margies
small rip in x-ply in 5.7 -scabs shorey
small chunk out of wave board - going kersplat over the front at high(ish) speed
2 carbon extensions (warranty for both) - scabs shorey
On Merimbula Lake, hit an oyster lease @ 22 knots. Trashed my JP fin, but no damage to finbox. Evidence of good design by JP, I reckon.
Can't believe how lucky I was to not get injured.
1 x Crack right through nose from cataput on FSW
1 x long board (buggered fin/over crap track)/semi-decommissioned
1 x bent extension
Need more time on water I reckon!
