Repair of Starboard.

In reality Starboard doesn't use carbon fibers in their formula boards, but in turn they use a very thin wood veneer on top of the "distance layer" (from PVC?) in the Starboard sandwich construction. On the deck Starboard has chosen (for selling purposes?) not to cover the veneer with paint. As a result the wood structure is very obvious under the protective coating from epoxy/glass-weave or transparent lacquer.

Of course, it can be very nice with this kind of wooden board (the relatively dark colour makes the board pretty hot, when lying in the sun), and the repairs on the deck are objectively not more difficult than repairs on ordinary sandwich boards. If you expect, however, the repairs to be camouflaged, it's more difficult. One way to overcome this (partly!), is to replace the damaged area with a sheet of veneer and cover it with a couple of epoxy/glass layers - and another way is to cover the (small) repaired area with a thin layer with plastic wood, before it is laminated with glass weave (remember that plastic wood fume for a long time, making this a fairly slow procedure).

But - you can also just chose to paint the repair in an ordinary way...

The nose of this Starboard has obviously been exposed to a catapult crash. The repair has cheerfully been painted in a silver grey colour - and not exactly camouflaged.

Between the "Starboard Man" and the big, silver grey repair, a smaller damage has been tried camouflaged with a little plastic wood under the glass weave (and the "sugar treatment" - a kind of anti skid treatment, see below).

A SB 158 has been repaired in a normal way with glass-/carbon weave, epoxy (and perhaps a little polyester or epoxy putty) in the "classic" place around the plug for the chicken strap.

After the repair the place has been painted and anti skid/sugar treated:

A thin layer of epoxy is sprinkled with sugar, and after hardening the sugar is rinsed away/dissolved in hot water.

A broken (Neil Pryde) extension has caused the rig to crash down through the deck of a Starboard.

The repair has been done by means of a veneer "block" with a couple of epoxy/glass weave layers. The repair has not been painted over - and the same goes for the numerous small reps around the big repair. Off course the area has been "sugar treated".