Has anybody thought of maybe opening up a section on seabreeze maybe in your membership area where you can register the serial numbers of your kites and boards so that if you stuff gets stolen you can at least try to ID it if you see it on the beach or for sale some where?
I had 2 North kites and a board stolen last year and when I went to the cops to report it stolen first thing they asked for was serial numbers, you never know when you going to see some F**KER walking down the beach with your gear!
I didn't know my kite had a serial number - where is it located?
Maybe some entrepreneur wants to start "RFID" or similar tagging/chipping gear? you could then register gear with AKSA and returning gear to owners simple. possible to possitively ID gear, bit more reliable than a phone number written with permanent marker!
Comes up now and again, and has been given some serious thought, including stickers, a registra etc, but each time, not many folks have been keen.
Sometimes the best solution is to keep a piece of paper with the serial number on it in your drawer.
Even considered a "Reward if found sticker" for boards, until realising that stickers easily fall of boards,. Writing your phone number on the board with a permanent marker is low tech, immediate, and won't peel off.
From working in a pawnbrokers as a young lad, we found that serial numbers were quickly removed, defaced or replaced on stolen goods. 
Always open to a fresh ideas, however. 
The marker pen works if someone wants to return it. A guy lost his kite board off Lennox and it was picked up by a pro fisherman (who was stoked there was no body dragging behind it) off the Queensland border. Travelled nearly 100km in a couple of days and looked like it had been in the water a month.
Best solution IMO is a really wide cable tie with your name and phone number engraved into the plastic. I put this on the day after I got my underground back from an Honest fisherman who contacted WAKSA.
