Longboard Skis

1. Your safety is your responsibility
2. Never attach yourself to the boat via “wrapping up” or with any type of harness
3. Do not ski where it is possible to hit anything in the water
4. Water skiing can be extremely dangerous
5. Serious injury and death have and may occur
6. Wrap up skiing and stiff race-type bindings significantly increase the risk of this ski breaking during use
7. Seven longboards have broken in use
8. There is no warranty on this product

Longboard Ski Failure

After 20 years of building Longboard skis, 7 out of 1,500 have broken. With a recent failure, we feel this is too many.

Stiff, thick-plate race type bindings create stress points in front of the forward binding and between the bindings. Mounting screws are often too close to the edge of the ski and are not always properly countersunk. When mounted in this manner, the result is a crack in the top laminate in close proximity to the stress point. The load on the ski will be drawn to this, the weakest point, and may cause your ski to break.

Maherajah's recommendation, to improve safety, is to:

1. Inspect your ski (with good light and a magnifying glass) top, bottom, and along the edges. If you find any cracks in the laminate, wood, or epoxy edges, the ski is not safe to ride and should be replaced.
2. If your ski is in good condition, mount both bindings on a single plate (see illustration). The plate should extend 4 inches aft and 12 inches forward of your bindings. Glue and screw the plate to your ski, keeping the screws 1 inch from the edge of the ski. Pre-drill and countersink properly so the screws do not crack the laminate.


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3. When you are changing bindings, you MUST fill the old holes with epoxy filler.

Please forward this information to any of your friends who may have Longboard Skis.

Let's talk about getting you on the water.

• Phone: 800 624-2754
• Fax: 707 279-0597
• Internationally: 707 272-2564