Select to expand quoteazza2u said..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.
Same again with my Tiga 275. 110kmh on the way to a sailing holiday. Spent a morning with sandpaper to take the road rash off the bottom and used it for another 15 years - it got chucked out last year.
Speaking of TIGA's...I stored my old Tiga TriConcave Slalom at mum and dad's...and by "stored", I mean - on it's side, up against a wall, completely exposed to the weather...
...for 15 years!!!
Decided to have another final sail one day, but the bottom was grey and chalky, the footstraps disintegrated and one of the rails was spilt open like a ripe tomato!
So I put it, the clapped out rig and the one piece fibreglass mast out for hard refuse collection ...gone within 20 minutes!
Why the hell would anyone want it?
Loading my board into the car in the dark after a long session, I hit the rearview mirror and cracked the windscreen. That was two years ago. The cracks in the windscreen are gradually widening and spreading across the windscreen.
The board was OK...
^^^similar thing, but I was driving and had to stop suddenly, board slid forward and cracked windscreen. No damage to board. Maybe should start a new thread: "ways windsurfing has damaged your car." Another time I arrived at a local spot (need to understand all my "local" spots are minimum 45 mins drive) with great wind and conditions, only to find had left mast extension in the garage. Still have the dent in the car from that one! ??
Recent Napa fires, my bud lost 7 boards and at least 10 sails when the neighborhood caught fire last Sept. Most of the gear was newer than 2 years old.
A couple:
Funny one when a mate went to unroll a sail to sell to someone. A few of us were there watching as it was at a market. As he threw it down to unroll, it must of his a stone or something and caused a massive tear to start. most of the main panel. he was standing there saying " as you can see the sail is in good condition", the rest of us was standing there creasing up as he hadn't noticed.. No sale.
I had a sail take off once and wrap itself around a post. Snapped mast before getting on the water.
Working on a film based out of Melbourne, accommodated by work in fancy serviced apartments that were on the corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale St. They were built onto the top of Myers old offices. The drive in access was tricky it was up the old loading dock ramp to what had been the roof top receiving dock. You had to cross three lanes of on coming traffic and hit a remote button for a massive two story roller door to open at the right time to avoid being stuck waiting for it to lift with out being half way out on the main road-tricky! Well one Sunday after a trip down to Torquay about 9pm I got back to the Units. Stupedly I decided to tail gate the car in front heading in and up the steep ramp, there was a beam so if I was slow it would rise up again. Soooo zipped across the street as the door was dropping, got the nose of my beautiful HQ Kingswood wagon across the line and the door stopped paused and started to rise everything was going to be OK.....except for my mast a two piece north that had jammed up in to a one piece which I had forgotten. It hooked up on the bottom rail of the very big, very heavy, very old roller door. Everything stopped I could not go forward as it was bent like a banana, couldn't reverse as its was straight back on to Lonsdale St, and the ancient roller door motor door is whining like a pommy and starting to smoke. Next thing I can hear the chain sprockets starting to jump so I decided to floor it, the mast explodes like a jousting stick the roller door rips out of its track and drops like a ton of lead, just missed my prize possession car. The resulting disaster blocked the access no vehicles in none out. The repairs involved an over night $400 per hour crane and emergency Melbourne CBD road closures during the Monday morning rush hour, causing extensive traffic delays. The crew were due back on location at 6AM the next day. No one could get out so shooting was delayed by hours costing the production hundreds of thousands of dollers. Ive never been able to fully work outage true cost of the stuff up but Im guessing it would have been in the millions what with lost revenue for the hundreds delayed by the traffic chaos. I never owned up and was never busted for my mast and head snap.
Select to expand quotemusorianin said..
^^^similar thing, but I was driving and had to stop suddenly, board slid forward and cracked windscreen. No damage to board. Maybe should start a new thread: "ways windsurfing has damaged your car." Another time I arrived at a local spot (need to understand all my "local" spots are minimum 45 mins drive) with great wind and conditions, only to find had left mast extension in the garage. Still have the dent in the car from that one! ??
Yeh, I relate to both of those. This summer: 1/ smashed the back window of my Prado at Liptons when I shut the door on a board which couldn't slide forward; 2/ major meltdown when I drove 1 1/2hrs to good conditions at Fangy's to find I'd left my RDM mast shim behind 
. Thankfully, calmer heads than mine quickly came up with a solution, so no dent in car
Select to expand quotepeterowensbabs said..
Working on a film based out of Melbourne, accommodated by work in fancy serviced apartments that were on the corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale St. They were built onto the top of Myers old offices. The drive in access was tricky it was up the old loading dock ramp to what had been the roof top receiving dock. You had to cross three lanes of on coming traffic and hit a remote button for a massive two story roller door to open at the right time to avoid being stuck waiting for it to lift with out being half way out on the main road-tricky! Well one Sunday after a trip down to Torquay about 9pm I got back to the Units. Stupedly I decided to tail gate the car in front heading in and up the steep ramp, there was a beam so if I was slow it would rise up again. Soooo zipped across the street as the door was dropping, got the nose of my beautiful HQ Kingswood wagon across the line and the door stopped paused and started to rise everything was going to be OK.....except for my mast a two piece north that had jammed up in to a one piece which I had forgotten. It hooked up on the bottom rail of the very big, very heavy, very old roller door. Everything stopped I could not go forward as it was bent like a banana, couldn't reverse as its was straight back on to Lonsdale St, and the ancient roller door motor door is whining like a pommy and starting to smoke. Next thing I can hear the chain sprockets starting to jump so I decided to floor it, the mast explodes like a jousting stick the roller door rips out of its track and drops like a ton of lead, just missed my prize possession car. The resulting disaster blocked the access no vehicles in none out. The repairs involved an over night $400 per hour crane and emergency Melbourne CBD road closures during the Monday morning rush hour, causing extensive traffic delays. The crew were due back on location at 6AM the next day. No one could get out so shooting was delayed by hours costing the production hundreds of thousands of dollers. Ive never been able to fully work outage true cost of the stuff up but Im guessing it would have been in the millions what with lost revenue for the hundreds delayed by the traffic chaos. I never owned up and was never busted for my mast and head snap.
if there was a prize, this one should win!
Embarrassment.
Be careful who parks next to you. Idiots upwind, very bad.
Unattended board sitting on top of a car, no straps, wind gust, dent on the side of my van.
Woman walking by on the upwind side, holding her rig the wrong way, wind gust, dent on the side of my van.
Some guy getting his board of the top of his car, very windy, should have asked for help, busted out my tail light.
Stretched out over a long period of time, 3 different vans, current van so far untouched, fingers crossed.
Driving to Gnaraloo in a certain sailmakers old subaru we got to the s bend just out of Gero and a Truck coming the other way ripped the roof racks clean off of the car, 2 boards and 2 surfboards all held together by tie downs gone in an instant.
Looking in the mirror I could see it do two spins, then the blast of wind from the truck blew it to the side of the road before it hit the car behind us.
Picked it all up and tied it down straight onto the roof through the windows and kept going! Good times.
Also as a grom putting the board on the roof and having it blow off and put a dent in a bonnet of a BMW parked next to me, got out of there pretty quick. lol
A friend of mine's van broke down while driving to Lake George from QLD. He arranged for a hired replacement van and was in the process of unpacking the van when the tow truck arrivef and drove over the nose of his new unused speed board.
Great thread! I haven't laughed so much for ages..
Years ago I was parked and rigging in a blustery W at Marmong. I was careful to make sure my board was pointing into the wind and safe but someone upwind wasn't.. His board got flung and hit mine which whacked into a car and then into the rockwall.. Luckily it only had a few rail dings..
Actually that was back in the days before I knew to dry the board out before you fixed it.. I think I went sailing and then just resined the cracks after..
