Color Your Surfboard in 4 steps:

 
   Here's a sample of artwork done by Jenna:

 

1. Use water based opaque pain pens. Uni Posca is the most popular type, but any water based type will do. They are available at most art stores for under $4.

2. If your board is new, you're in luck, but any board can be colored. If it isn't new, clean your board with acetone to remove all wax and dirt.

3. Let your creative side lose. You can trace lightly in pencil first or just go for it. If you make a mistake just scrape off or lightly sand with a high number sand paper, 600 or 800. Don't wash it off with water or try to clean it with the acetone or any other liquid.

4. Let your artwork dry. Then seal it with Krylon Acrylic Crystal Clear spray it lightly, let it dry then repeat several times up to 6 times to make it permanently sealed.

How to Avoid a Shark Attack:

The chances of being bitten by a shark are miniscule. Here are some
common sense ways to reduce your chances of ever being bitten:

• Before entering the water take a few minutes to watch the ocean, which you should be doing to examine waves, drifts and riptides anyway. Look for schools of baitfish, birds diving for fish, shiny flashes of fish, spinner sharks jumping, fins, etc. These are all signs of marine activity that indicate probable shark activity. Do not go in the water. No wave is worth a shark bite. Really, even if it is head-high-glassy-perfectly-lined- up-A-frames. No wave is worth a shark bite.

• Don't think that there are no sharks in the shallows, this is where the little ones lurk and this is where you are most likely to get bit here in Florida. The young ones are new to the feeding game. The churned-up, murky, wave disturbed waters confuse them and they bite anything they encounter. They really don't like human flesh and will bite and then let go, which is of little comfort to those bit, but should help in under- standing that they mean you no harm and that you should avoid situations in their environment that will confuse them. Once you reach about ankle high water you are in their world, plan accordingly.

• Obviously, don't go in the water if you're bleeding even the slightest, from anywhere at all. Sharks are attracted to blood of any sort. Oh, by the way, a Band-aid will not help keep the smell of blood from their nostrils.

• Don't wear jewelry or anything shiny. Though you might imagine that your bling-bling attracts favorable attention on land, in the water all it attracts is hungry sharks.

• Avoid making erratic, nervous, frenzied motions in the water as they attract sharks that there is wounded prey in their environment. Stay calm when you wipe out.

• When trying to convince yourself that the small sharks are not to be worried about, imagine a missing finger or toe or trying to limp around with a severely lacerated achilles tendon. Sorry for the reality check.

• Keep in mind that the dawn patrol and dusk hours are prime time for shark activity and bites as the dimished light decreases their vision which increases the likelihood of your being bit.

• Respect the ocean, as it will always be more powerful than you.