Patent ID: 7390234

Claim:
A buoyant board for water sports, which board comprises a vertically flattened elongated body having a lower face for contact with water, and an upper face for supporting a person, the lower face and the upper face meeting along a peripheral edge of the body, the body being constituted by a pair of end parts and at least one intermediate part located between the end parts, the parts being arranged in series in abutment, and being separable such that each intermediate part is removable and optionally replaceable to permit adjustment of the length of the body and to facilitate transport of the board when the various parts are separated, the abutments between adjacent parts of the body having zig-zag or wave-form profiles, each part, at each abutment, having an abutment face defining a plurality of crests alternating with a plurality of valleys, when seen in plan view, each abutment face of each part being provided both with a plurality of transverse rods and with a plurality of tranverse slots, the rods alternating with the slots across the width of the board, the rods being provided adjacent the floors of the valleys and the slots being provided in the peaks of the crests, the rods of each abutment face being received in the slots of the associated opposed abutment face, each rod and the associated slot providing a connection formation connecting the abutting parts together, the slots opening outwardly in the longitudinal direction of the board.