Sentence examples for fibreglass board from inspiring English sources

There are photos of locals riding the budget boards on the thunderous waves of Makaha, a surf break near an economically depressed town in Oahu, and there are surfboard selfies taken by Mike Coots, a shark-attack victim who surfs on a Wavestorm because his prosthetic leg would damage a fibreglass board.

"They hone their skills on a soft board in a safer environment and then you get a fibreglass board and move to the south end".

"They hone their skills on a soft board in a safer environment and then you get a fibreglass board and move to the south end". The council is currently running a survey to gauge public response to the proposal.

Surf flagships, smelling faintly of coconut wax, were also dismissed—I wore shell bracelets and ROXY backpacks on weekends, but knew nothing of fibreglass boards.

Virtually all modern surfboards are constructed of the same materials — a core of polyurethane foam wrapped in lightweight fibreglass — but this board, shaped by Bob Chatfield, of Santa Cruz, was made of teak, with a mahogany veneer.

New materials such as balsa wood, fibreglass, and polyurethane further revolutionized board design and manufacture in the 1940s, producing still more maneuverable wave-riding craft.

A fibreglass boat is left looking like a pillow attacked by a lawnmower.

"We had just discovered that you could make windsurfing boards out of fibreglass," she explains.Feeling cut off from people and opportunities, Ms Greene returned to San Francisco's Bay Area to design commercial ships and windsurfing boards.

Since then, new materials like fibreglass have been used to gradually make boards lighter and more manoeuvrable.

With money still scarce Peterson and his brother set up a board- shaping bay, using resin and fibreglass offcuts from local factories.

Rigid board panels can be made with compressed fibreglass.