There is no surf travel without the travel surfboard bag.  Unless you’re a gung-ho loony convinced that putting a naked board with a “fragile” sticker on it in a baggage carousel is worth the hassle, the travel surfboard bag is the only way to ensure your stick gets where you are going in a still rideable condition.  Though even with the greatest travel surfboard bag in the world you’re likely to need to do some small fixes at the other end.

The ultimate travel surfboard bag, the one from which there is no return of damaged boards, is the hard case.  A hard travel surfboard bag is custom moulded to your boards, costs about a million quid and is usually only available to professionals.  The hard travel surfboard bag also weighs so much you need three people to carry it and is too big to safely fit on the roof of a car.  If you’re not a sponsored surfer, don’t consider a hard travel surfboard bag – if you are a sponsored surfer, you won’t need a hard travel surfboard bag because your sponsor will be carrying more boards than you could ever break.

Us normies, though, going on a trip:  we need to consider a good travel surfboard bag:  one that we can carry; one that fits in a car; and one that stands a reasonable chance of actually protecting our kit.  What, then, are the habits of a good travel surfboard bag?

A good travel surfboard bag can fit more than one board.  Doesn’t matter how careful you are, you’re going to break a board when you surf tropic waters.  So pack more than one.  Which means buying a travel surfboard bag that fits more than one.

A good travel surfboard bag needs to be light enough to carry but bulky enough to protect.  Look for the thickness of the padding on the corners of your travel surfboard bag.  Check, also, if your intended travel surfboard bag has been designed with lugging in mind.  Does the travel surfboard bag have wheels and/or pull handles?  Could you see yourself single-handedly dragging the travel surfboard bag through Dubai airport at 4 a.m.?

There’s no travel surfboard bag good enough to protect against the enthusiastic Hooliganism practised by most baggage handlers.  Our last advice:  no matter how good your travel surfboard bag, buy some pipe lagging and wrap your boards in that.  A combination of the two should see you arrive mostly intact.

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