How to pack your surfboard for overseas travel
You’ve found your perfect surfboard and now you’re heading overseas to some remote surf hot spot where you’ll not come across surfboards for sale. You have to take your own surfboard. However, traveling abroad with your surfboard is sometimes risky business. Read on this article for top grade advice on how to pack your surfboard safely to survive the dreaded baggage handlers. Take out your fins if you can. Most surfboard now come with FCS fins as standard. Buy a good surfboard travelbag, at least 5mm thickness. Then for extra padding especially around the tail and nose of the surfboard use some of your beach towels. Alternatively or as well, put your surfboard inside a sleeping bag if you’re taking one. Surfboard travel bags are also great for storing some of your other surf stuff such as your wetsuit. On the outside of your surfboard bag make sure and mark it with fragile stickers. Not every baggage handler knows you have a fragile fiberglass surfboard inside that coffin shaped bag. Also ask at check-in if your surfboard can be placed on last. Most airlines won’t accommodate any such requests, but its worth a try. With all this padding and marking the chances of your fragile surfboard making to your destination in good condition are much higher.
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