Surfboard sock
A surfboard sock will cover your surfboard, protecting you, your clothes and belongings from melted wax, and provides a light cover for your surfboard.
Surfboard socks are really designed to keep the dust off your surfboard while it is lying around your garage or room. They will also provide minimal protection while your surfboard is in storage on a surfboard rack. Read on for the pros and cons of a surfboard sock.
Advantages of A Surfboard Sock
Lightweight
Surfboard socks are extremely lightweight and are usually made from stretchy nylon fabrics, and are sometimes called surfboard knit bags.
Quite often they have a reinforced nose to provide added protection for your surfboard, and also to stop the nose of your board from going through the sock the first time you use it!
Speaking of surfboard noses, it is pretty important to get the nose on the surfboard sock to match the shape of the nose of your surfboard, either rounded for longboards and funboards, or pointed for most shortboards.
Cheaper
A surf sock is the cheapest covering you can buy for your surfboard. This is due to the fact that zippers and extra padding that is included in surfboard bags all add up.
Great For Day To Day Transit To The Beach
Surfboard socks are excellent for preventing melting wax from dripping all over the inside of your car when you have locked your board in the car on a warm day. However I don’t recommend ever doing this but I know it just happens sometimes.
They are excellent for protecting your best boardshorts and t-shirt from wearing wax while going to and from your local surf break. They can also come in handy for stopping the sand from getting all over your board when your surfboard is lying on the beach at the end of a surf session.
Disadvantages of Surfboard Socks
Less Protection Than a Surfboard Bag
A surfboard sock when all is said and done is just a thin surfboard cover. There is pretty much no protection from impact, pressure, UV, water, or heat.
Not Appropriate For Air Travel
A surfboard sock should never be considered for air travel, unless it is covering a surfboard which is then going into a surfboard bag or coffin (a surfboard bag which holds multiple surfboards).
You may as well just jump up and down on your surfboard yourself if you are planning on leaving your surfboard in the hands of an airline company in just a surf sock!