With airlines traveling to Hawaii now charging on average $US200 per board, each way, taking your boards to the Islands is now a very expensive business.

When you add in the fact that you are very likely to snap at least one or many of your sleds from your favourite quiver, it makes more sense to pitch up and buy your boards there.

Check out the surf shops in Haleiwa or on the stretch around Pipeline which all have a stack of good second hand boards, with the benefit of being shaped by Hawaiian shapers for Hawaiian waves.

You effectively have 400 bucks to spend before you are behind and if you snap them it’s no big deal.

If you manage to keep them intact, even better, find a place to stash them and you’ll have the start of a Hawaiian quiver for your next trip.