Water soaked kite surfboard

[akhodakivskiy]

I've been riding Slingshot 2015 Screamer for a while now (http://www.slingshotsports.com/2015-Screamer). Recently I noticed that the board became noticeably heavier. There are a few dings on the rails that I neglected to fix (regretting this now). I think the board soaked quite a bit of water. :(

Is there an easy way to get all the water out of the board?

[Batshitcrazy]

Not a sure bet, but here's an idea:

1) Drill a few small (1/8th inch) holes in the deck up by the nose all the way into the core. 2) Drill a bigger big hole into the deck right down by the tale, again, all the way into the core. This hole should be sized so you can fit the end of your kite pump securely into it. 2) leave the Board standing nose up for a couple of days to as long as you are willing to wait. 3) put your kite pump hose into the hole possibly sealing with silicone or some such. 4) put the hose into the deflate and pull a vacuum on it. Keep pumping for as long as you are willing. If you have access to a vacuum pump, that would certainly be more effective but you need to put a water catcher into the line. 5) Fill the holes with epoxy and microspheres.

[le noun]

yup, drill a hole on either way the nose or the tail and wait for a week probably and let the water drip out. But if it's been soaked for a while, I don't know if the epoxy will ever get fully dry again?

[akhodakivskiy]

Thanks for the advice! Going to report the progress.

[dwaynej]

The Board Lady Eva Hollmann is well known here in socal... She is retired from board repairs but runs the Facebook Lake Isabella Windsurfing page...

http://www.boardlady.com/water.htm

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2946386 ... /?f"ref=ts

While substantially faster than any of the above methods, vacuum-drying can take months, if the water had a chance to migrate into the EPS beads: a Northshore Maui board with over 6# of water in the core for half a year, took 5 months to shed 5 1/2#.

[CdoG]

I know this is gonna sound crazy but back in the DaY
Windsurfers would spin there water logged boards on home made spinners
Hooked to a drill motor
With The forementioned holes drilled fore and aft

[dwaynej]

I know this is gonna sound crazy but back in the DaY
Windsurfers would spin there water logged boards on home made spinners
Hooked to a drill motor
With The forementioned holes drilled fore and aft

Eva does mention spinners...

Centrifugal Forces
The Spinner. I don't have one. The principle makes a certain amount of sense, but the results seem wanting. The two boards I got my hands on after they had been spun "dry" yielded better than 1/2# of water each on the vacuum.

[CdoG]

I did not make that up ,I lived it.