Old days , tightening up the screw in the fin box and slipped and stuck the screwdriver straight through the bottom of the board, only a small hole , no problems, except when I turn it over and find I’ve ploughed straight into the leggie plug and popped it out ...
Talking to mate while tying three boards on the roof of the car, reverse out of spot to hear daughters board slide off and crash on the concrete from the roof of a 4WD crushing most of one rail, I slid it straight back in the cover and told her it was fine , then repaired it over a few nights ...
Getting over enthusiastic with a new board and deciding that the shallow reef in the middle of Mona Vale was a good spot to attempt to land an air … that was out of my league and had to take it to Pure surfboards to get the nose re-attached … lucky that bloke knew what he was doin’ , it hasn’t fallen off (yet) …
Not mine, but many years ago when you could light fires on Forresters beach , we used to take turns running home for lunch while one or two would stay behind to mind the boards, the boards were resting on a large branch about a foot thick with one end in the fire … of coarse while I am sitting there with my back to the fire and fixated on the surf another mate says “what’s that smell” … our other mate who went home for lunch, had a new, really nice MR that he had saved and saved for and it was of course on fire … we grabbed it a ran for the water and when we chucked it in the glass on the deck sort of shattered into hundreds of little peaks like mini barnacles … it was very awkward having to explain it all when he got back from lunch but he was too devastated to be angry at us …
we ended up sanding it all back and re-glassing the deck, luckily the bottom was not damaged so it wasn't a right off …