Crash Box

These are hastily and poorly built shacks using scrap woods and makeshift parts along the western coast beaches. They are built and used by dedicated surf glider groups to "crash" between glidable tides and overnight. The can range in size from one large room to larger multi-room buildings that have been made by adding onto previous structures that survived the coastal winter. They are communal living spaces built large enough to hold the particular group of surfers, Larger, add-on structures are uncommon due to the winter weather and surfs destroy them. Smaller shacks may be erected near the crash boxes to serve as outhouses.
Little care is taken to beautify these buildings. The local surf groups who use them consider them to be temporary (single season) and purely of functional value. That value being protection from storms and other conditions when surfing, which is considered not only the primary, but the sole objective of life, cannot be undertaken. Not much attention is paid to these structures for maintenance due to the intended temporary consideration. The surfers will just reuse what they can collect again the following spring in advance of the surfing season.
The local surf groups are considered squatters and mischievaous townspeople or claimed landowners often attempt to destroy the crash boxes. The location of the crash boxes is used to mark the territory that is controlled by an individual group, often using bright colors. This serves to warn other surf groups froo ividing their space uninvited. They also serve as beacons of color so a surfer can spot their territory while out on the water. Local groups also tend to their turf to keep it clean of debris that the use as much as they can for either the crash boxes or for bon fires which are used as cooking fires and for distilling/desalting drinking water.