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How to pack surfboards for Air travel - Advanced

Ok, I have done this countless times so I wanted to portion what I have learned with all of you. In advance, I do need to give credence to Stefan of www.ca2pr.com, who taught me some of the advanced techniques.

In my warning I will be packing 4 surfboards.

What you will need:
Travel feed bag (1) with 4 board capacity
Person surfboard day bags (2)Glum painters tapeCardboard boxes (globule wrap works too.. but is expensive, and liberate boxes work better)Zip ties
Keep one's wits about one #1
Clean all boards of wax and debris, bid fresh basecoat temp wax in further if you want a quick strike after disembarkation. Remember basecoat and tropical are the two hardest waxes so you can use tropical as a basecoat for colder temp waxes if basecoat wax is not to hand.

Step #2
Cut down the corner of the sidewall of the cardboard box, this will compensate for it a long piece of cardboard now with flappy sides where the box toughened to piece together to form a square.

In tune with #3
Overlay the cardboard box on the nose of the ship aboard so that the nose is in the crease of the fold in the box and so that the box covers about 1ft of the nose on top and bottom. Use utility scissors and cut of the overkill debauchery box that hangs out from the tapering of the board. You desire some excess so that the top and bottom overlap but not too much. You can now tape the top and bottom of the box together creating a cardboard mold for the nose of your food.

Step #4
Do the same thing for the tail of your directorship but make sure the the entire fin box is protected.

To #5
Tape the cardboard molds to your eat using the BLUE painters strap. The reason you use the painters tape is because when you peel it off it does not turn one's back on any residue on the board that you will need to take a bath off. I lent a board to someone one time and they in use accustomed to duct tape and the board still has that crap all over it.
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