fixing snapped longboard

snapped the longboard in the shoredump, tears before bedtime.

The back third of the board snapped off, taking the glass from the bottom of the front section with it. The foam has a pretty clean break, I thought I'd use resin to stick the foam together and then router out two slots next to the stringer to splip in two bits of wood and glue. My main problem is the front section. The glass has pulled out up to where it was doubled over at the rails, should I sand the rails down and then overlapp with new glass?

cheers roy

So far so good...but forget the wood and such stuck in there, it does exactly nothing. Adds no strength at all. All it does is complicate things...a lot.

Instead, use that time to make a good jig or fixture to hold the two broken pieces in alignment so that you don't get a buggered-up rocker. Then, butter both ends with a cabosil/resin mix and stick them together. The real strength is in the glass.

Exactly, sand carefully down to the foam. Very carefully, those sander gouges are a bitch to fill. Glass the bottom, then use another band of cloth all around the board, right over the break. Maybe 2 feet wide. If you're using cloth lighter than, say, 8 oz, then another band 1 foot wide should be put on first.

hope that's of use

lightweight drywall spackel to fill voids, because it is quicker, easy to sand, and lighter