There’s a lot of bad advice out there — people using the wrong glue, fixing only the surface, or doing repairs that don’t last more than a few surfs. And when it fails, the board gets binned. That’s the part that doesn’t sit right. Most of these boards aren’t actually dead — they’ve just been repaired badly, or not at all. Soft tops especially get treated like they’re disposable: ride it, trash it, replace it, repeat. But that mindset is part of the problem. Every board that ends up in landfill is more waste sitting in the same environment we rely on — the ocean, the coast, the places we surf. If a board can be fixed, it should be. Not just to save money, but because keeping gear in use is part of respecting the ecosystem that gives us everything in the first place. We’ve tested this ourselves on real boards, with real damage, in real conditions — and this guide is built off what actually held up. Not perfect fixes, not pretty fixes — just repairs that work and keep boards in the water where they belong.