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Idiot'due south Guide to Packing & Shipping Surfboards

Traveling with your surfboards is a sometimes necessary only dreadful experience. Surfboards are very difficult to ship due to their delicate and beefy nature. This surfboard packing guide provides 14 easy to follow steps. Thanks to Charissa Proctor of Proctor Surfboards for giving me great packing tips!

You can selection up all the necessary packing supplies at your local shipping, packing, or surfboard supply store for around $40 or you tin buy one of the many models of surfboard bags offered.

Surfboard Packing List:

Surfboard box
Packing tape
Plastic bagging
Packing cream (sheets)
Chimera wrap (optional)
Utility knife

Step 1: Cut off the boxes' backlog length. You'll want to lay the longest surfboard on the flattened box. Important Note: Make sure you but cut i end of the box so you lot preserve one set of folding flaps (used to seal the box - see photo below).

How much backlog should I cut off?

Step: 2 Y'all'll want nearly 2" of space on each end of the box from the nose and tail of your board and the extra infinite needed to cut the folding flaps on one the end (retrieve that you lot're cut the folding flaps when yous cut the excess off ane terminate). How much excess you lot go out for the folding flaps depends on the size of your box. Measure the height of the existing flaps to run into how much extra yous'll demand before y'all cut the excess off the other end.

Step: 3 Once you've downsized your box on i side only), cut your folding flaps on the stop you merely cut. Take a wait at the side you didn't cutting to see exactly how to cut your new flaps.

Pace: 4 Now that your box is the perfect size, we must prepare the boards for shipping. The best type of foam for protecting surfboards are thin perforated sheets which tin be torn into 12 inch strips. Yous want to tear the foam into 24 inch broad sheets then each sheet tin exist folded in half.

Pace: five You'll then want to slip your surfboards into a plastic purse which will prevent them from getting that nasty agglutinative residual left by packing record (believe me, doing this actress footstep will salvage you a lot of time and headache!). Cinch both ends of the plastic pocketbook either with necktie wraps or a knot.

Pace: half-dozen Wrap both ends with packing tape so your board doesn't move around in the plastic handbag.

Stride: 7 Fold a 24 inch wide foam canvass in half and tape to the top of the board that will sit down on the bottom of the box.

Step: eight (Optional) y'all can wrap the ends of your board with bubble wrap but this step isn't necessary if you lot have boards with like rockers. Use the bubble wrap if the nose or tail of your boards are touching i another.

Stride: ix Place your second board directly on top (make sure your 2d board besides has its own plastic bag) and tape the two boards together. It's all-time to tape the two ends and the middle.

Step: 10 In one case you take the two boards taped together, you'll want to accept your 24 inch wide foam sheet and fold in half once again. Wrap the rails of BOTH boards with your sheet of foam and packing tape. Yous'll want to brand sure that the foam wraps around both boards so that the meridian and lesser of your 'board sandwich' are protected.

Step: 11 Take another 24 inch wide foam sheet and begin wrapping the nose and tail every bit shown in the photo below. If y'all want to take extra precaution confronting dings, y'all can beginning wrap the olfactory organ and tail with bubble wrap followed past foam sheet but that footstep is option.

Step: 12 Fold in half and tape down the extra cream sheets to the elevation and bottom of your boards. The idea here is you want to have foam in all the areas that come into contact with the box (top/bottom & nose/tail).

Pace: 13 Insert your packed 'board sandwich' into the box and stuff both ends of the box with shirts, jackets, towels, or extra foam/chimera wrap. You may also need to pad the sides of your boards depending on the width of your box (see photo). Make sure that you've padded the box then that your board doesn't move around.

Note: I've heard surfers say that TSA security sometimes cheque the inside packed surfboard boxes. I've never had that happen to me but I usually bring tape with me to the airport just in case they open my box.

Footstep: 14 Seal the box with packing record and be sure to use one of those ruby fragile stickers. If you don't have stickers use a sharpie as an alternative. Be sure to write your proper name/address/phone number.

Step: 15 Undercover Tip: I highly recommend using a handle bar to acquit your box through the drome. You can buy something similar at the store just I really make my handle bar out of tape (come across photos below). This makes things so much easier, particularly if you need to walk far with your boards.

I hope this guide makes shipping surfboards a lot easier for you. Feel gratuitous to drop me a line if you take questions or comments. Email me at neal at surfboardshack dot com

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