Hollow Evo 80 repair

[davej]

I have a battered Evo 80 (the Active-hollow one) which I love but which had gone very soft under under the heel pads (I could also hear "bits" rolling around inside which I assume were bits of the shell which had broken away from the inside). Board was completely watertight though - huge hiss whenever you took at the air vent.

I had a go at low-cost DIY fixing it like this:

-Took off the pads
-Drilled about 10-20 small holes in the heel regions
-Mixed up some proper 2-part PE foam and injected into the holes - this filled the cavity in the board in the heel regions. This stuff is very hard to mix quickly enough and then inject before it rises but I think I did a reasonable job. I also think it will have stuck well to the inside of the board (if the way it stuck to my fingers is anything to go by)
-Glassed about 4 layers of cloth on top of the deck in the heel regions
-Refitted pads

The affected areas are now rock hard and I've sailed the board a couple of times and it sails just as well and has survived several of my signature flat landings. Weight seems only very slightly increased.

The questions I have is how long is this repair likely to last? and could it fail in some new dramatic way? - e.g. at the boundary of the new foam within the board.

Suspect I should have asked all this before doing it .... I certainly don't intend to sail our further than I can swim back!

[rod]

I did exactly the same repair to my Moo custom last year. I reckon it will last for years. It sounds like you have done a fine job! Those old Evo shapes rock and are worth keeping going.

[tooold2dance]

when you find someone who can foretell accurately the repair length , let me know.

Since it has failed, well so to speak, in one area the likelihood of other problems seem a distinct possibility.
In the mean time sail the board , and practice your swimming strokes.