diff --git a/docs/adr/0027-boards-are-tombstoned-never-deleted.md b/docs/adr/0027-boards-are-tombstoned-never-deleted.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2eb53d60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/adr/0027-boards-are-tombstoned-never-deleted.md
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Boards Are Tombstoned, Never Deleted
+
+Deleting a **Board** sets `boards.deleted_at` instead of removing the row. The Board disappears from every Rider-facing list, its configuration (Board settings, Board warnings, **Alert Rules**, Last Known Board Config Values) is hard-deleted as before, and its **Ride History** is untouched — as it already was.
+
+The reason is that **Ride History** outlives the Board that produced it. The app has always kept telemetry after a Board delete, but the `boards` row vanishing left those rides pointing at a Board id that resolves to nothing. History could only fall back to the `device_name` snapshotted on each row: a frozen label, not an identity. A tombstone keeps the row resolvable, so a deleted Board's rides still name it and still group by it.
+
+## Considered Options
+
+- **Cascade** — deleting a Board deletes its Ride History too. Rejected outright: it deletes the thing worth keeping.
+- **Leave the hard delete and lean on the snapshotted `device_name`.** Rejected because a name is not an identity: renames before the delete produce rides labelled inconsistently, and nothing links a ride back to the Board it came from.
+- **Move Board identity onto the history rows** (denormalize more at write time). Rejected as strictly more storage for strictly less: it still cannot answer "which rides came from this Board" after the Board is gone.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- `getBoards()` filters `deleted_at IS NULL`. `getBoard(id)` deliberately does not — **Ride History** must still be able to name a deleted Board. Callers that act on a Board rather than describe one (`buildSessionConfig`, `BoardConnectConfig.resolve`) check `deletedAt` and refuse.
+- An ordinary upsert never clears an existing tombstone, so deletion is terminal. Only the delete path stamps one, and deleting an already-tombstoned Board is a no-op.
+- **Tune Profiles** are deliberately outside the cascade. Tuning work is expensive to recreate and survives its Board; removing one takes its own deletion.
+- Telemetry can carry a stable `board_id` instead of keying on the mutable BLE identifier, because the row it points at never disappears. That unblocks the identity half of the `device_name` question (#274); the label half stays governed by ADR-0005.
+- Tombstones accumulate. They are one small row per deleted Board, bounded by how many Boards a rider ever owned, so no pruning rule is warranted.
+- The server half of this decision — tombstones crossing the wire, and the Board **Delete Action** that carries the configuration cascade — lands with Ride History backup (#276) and is out of scope here.
diff --git a/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/connection/SessionConfigBuilder.kt b/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/connection/SessionConfigBuilder.kt
index 0c8f07e0..f9e9b9fc 100644
--- a/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/connection/SessionConfigBuilder.kt
+++ b/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/connection/SessionConfigBuilder.kt
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ internal suspend fun buildSessionConfig(
     val repo = AppDataRepository.get(context.applicationContext)
     val board = repo.getBoard(boardId)
         ?: throw IllegalArgumentException("Board not found: $boardId")
+    // Lookup resolves tombstones so Ride History can name them; connecting to one is refused (ADR 0027).
+    if (board["deletedAt"] != null) {
+        throw IllegalArgumentException("Board is deleted: $boardId")
+    }
     @Suppress("UNCHECKED_CAST")
     val link = board["link"] as? Map<String, Any?>
     val bleId = link?.get("bleId") as? String
diff --git a/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/AppDataRepository.kt b/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/AppDataRepository.kt
index bd4d7e94..6ffa083c 100644
--- a/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/AppDataRepository.kt
+++ b/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/AppDataRepository.kt
@@ -207,8 +207,13 @@ class AppDataRepository private constructor(private val context: Context) {
     notifyDataChanged(AppDataScope.BOARDS)
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Tombstones the Board rather than removing it, so its Ride History keeps a resolvable Board
+   * identity (ADR 0027). Board-owned configuration is still hard-deleted.
+   * @parity /modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/AppDataRepository.swift `deleteBoard`
+   */
   suspend fun deleteBoard(id: String): Unit = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
-    dao.deleteBoardWithSettings(id)
+    dao.deleteBoardWithSettings(id, System.currentTimeMillis())
     dao.deleteBoardConfigValues(id)
     dao.deleteBoardConfigChangeNotice(id)
     notifyDataChanged(AppDataScope.BOARDS)
@@ -908,6 +913,7 @@ fun BoardEntity.toMap(settings: List<BoardSettingEntity>): Map<String, Any?> {
     "name" to name,
     "description" to values["description"],
     "createdAt" to createdAt,
+    "deletedAt" to deletedAt,
     "batteryConfig" to values["batteryConfig"],
     "lastBattery" to values["lastBattery"],
     "dismissedWarnings" to values["dismissedWarnings"],
diff --git a/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryDao.kt b/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryDao.kt
index a8fb6625..de83454e 100644
--- a/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryDao.kt
+++ b/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryDao.kt
@@ -368,14 +368,31 @@ interface TelemetryDao {
     clearExclusions()
   }
 
-  @Query("SELECT * FROM boards ORDER BY created_at ASC")
+  /** Live Boards only — a tombstoned Board is gone from every Rider-facing list (ADR 0027). */
+  @Query("SELECT * FROM boards WHERE deleted_at IS NULL ORDER BY created_at ASC")
   suspend fun getBoards(): List<BoardEntity>
 
+  /**
+   * Resolves tombstones too, deliberately: Ride History still has to name a deleted Board. Callers
+   * that act on a Board rather than describe one check [BoardEntity.deletedAt] and refuse.
+   */
   @Query("SELECT * FROM boards WHERE id = :id LIMIT 1")
   suspend fun getBoard(id: String): BoardEntity?
 
   @Insert(onConflict = OnConflictStrategy.REPLACE)
-  suspend fun upsertBoard(board: BoardEntity)
+  suspend fun insertBoardRow(board: BoardEntity)
+
+  @Query("SELECT deleted_at FROM boards WHERE id = :id")
+  suspend fun getBoardDeletedAt(id: String): Long?
+
+  /**
+   * An existing tombstone survives the write, so an ordinary upsert can never resurrect a deleted
+   * Board — deletion is terminal (ADR 0027). Only [deleteBoardWithSettings] stamps a new one.
+   */
+  @Transaction
+  suspend fun upsertBoard(board: BoardEntity) {
+    insertBoardRow(board.copy(deletedAt = board.deletedAt ?: getBoardDeletedAt(board.id)))
+  }
 
   @Query("SELECT * FROM board_settings WHERE board_id = :boardId")
   suspend fun getBoardSettings(boardId: String): List<BoardSettingEntity>
@@ -399,16 +416,21 @@ interface TelemetryDao {
   @Query("DELETE FROM board_settings WHERE board_id = :boardId")
   suspend fun deleteBoardSettings(boardId: String)
 
-  @Query("DELETE FROM boards WHERE id = :id")
-  suspend fun deleteBoard(id: String)
-
+  /**
+   * Tombstones the Board and hard-deletes its configuration. The `boards` row itself survives so
+   * Ride History can still name it (ADR 0027); deleting a Board that is already tombstoned is a
+   * no-op, so the stamp is never moved.
+   *
+   * @parity /modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/AppDataRepository.swift `deleteBoard`
+   */
   @Transaction
-  suspend fun deleteBoardWithSettings(id: String) {
+  suspend fun deleteBoardWithSettings(id: String, deletedAt: Long) {
+    val board = getBoard(id)?.takeIf { it.deletedAt == null } ?: return
     deleteBoardSettings(id)
     deleteBoardWarnings(id)
     // Alert Rules are Board-owned (#254) — drop them with the Board so no orphan rows survive.
     deleteAlertRules(id)
-    deleteBoard(id)
+    insertBoardRow(board.copy(deletedAt = deletedAt))
   }
 
   @Query("SELECT * FROM alerts WHERE board_id = :boardId ORDER BY created_at ASC")
diff --git a/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.kt b/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.kt
index 84091a68..0a2d0ebb 100644
--- a/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.kt
+++ b/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.kt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import java.io.File
 // @parity /modules/vescape-core/ios/VescapeCoreModule.swift
 internal const val TELEMETRY_DATABASE_NAME = "vescape.db"
 internal const val LEGACY_TELEMETRY_DATABASE_NAME = "telemetry.db"
-internal const val TELEMETRY_DATABASE_VERSION = 36
+internal const val TELEMETRY_DATABASE_VERSION = 37
 
 @Database(
   entities = [
@@ -613,6 +613,18 @@ abstract class TelemetryDatabase : RoomDatabase() {
      * restored as `lastKnown` on connect.
      * @parity /modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.swift `v36_motor_config_values`
      */
+    /**
+     * Board tombstones (#428). Deleting a Board stops removing its row and stamps `deleted_at`
+     * instead, so Ride History keeps a resolvable Board identity (ADR 0027). Additive and nullable;
+     * existing rows stay live.
+     * @parity /modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.swift `v37_board_deleted_at`
+     */
+    internal val MIGRATION_36_37 = object : Migration(36, 37) {
+      override fun migrate(db: SupportSQLiteDatabase) {
+        db.execSQL("ALTER TABLE boards ADD COLUMN deleted_at INTEGER")
+      }
+    }
+
     internal val MIGRATION_35_36 = object : Migration(35, 36) {
       override fun migrate(db: SupportSQLiteDatabase) {
         db.execSQL(
@@ -714,6 +726,7 @@ abstract class TelemetryDatabase : RoomDatabase() {
             MIGRATION_33_34,
             MIGRATION_34_35,
             MIGRATION_35_36,
+            MIGRATION_36_37,
           )
           .fallbackToDestructiveMigration(true)
           .addCallback(object : Callback() {
diff --git a/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryEntities.kt b/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryEntities.kt
index c400bf76..00f479b2 100644
--- a/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryEntities.kt
+++ b/modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryEntities.kt
@@ -240,6 +240,17 @@ data class BoardEntity(
   val bleId: String?,
   @ColumnInfo(name = "created_at")
   val createdAt: Long,
+  /**
+   * Tombstone stamp: epoch ms of the rider's delete, null while the Board is alive. A deleted Board
+   * keeps its row so Ride History can still name it; only the Board's configuration is hard-deleted
+   * (ADR 0027).
+   *
+   * Written by the delete path only — an upsert from the bridge never authors it.
+   * @parity /modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.swift `v37_board_deleted_at`
+   * @parity /modules/vescape-core/src/index.ts `Board`
+   */
+  @ColumnInfo(name = "deleted_at")
+  val deletedAt: Long? = null,
 )
 
 @Entity(
diff --git a/modules/vescape-core/ios/connection/BoardSessionController.swift b/modules/vescape-core/ios/connection/BoardSessionController.swift
index c7add1e6..fe77e62e 100644
--- a/modules/vescape-core/ios/connection/BoardSessionController.swift
+++ b/modules/vescape-core/ios/connection/BoardSessionController.swift
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ internal struct BoardConnectConfig {
     recordingEnabled: Bool = false
   ) -> BoardConnectConfig? {
     guard let board = appData.getBoard(boardId) else { return nil }
+    // Lookup resolves tombstones so Ride History can name them; connecting to one is refused (ADR 0027).
+    guard (board["deletedAt"] ?? nil) == nil else { return nil }
     guard let link = board["link"] as? [String: Any?] else { return nil }
     guard let bleId = link["bleId"] as? String, !bleId.isEmpty else { return nil }
     let transport = BoardTransport.fromBridge(link["transport"] ?? nil) ?? .direct
diff --git a/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/AppDataRepository.swift b/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/AppDataRepository.swift
index 9c5bbe3f..19b889e5 100644
--- a/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/AppDataRepository.swift
+++ b/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/AppDataRepository.swift
@@ -70,7 +70,11 @@ final class AppDataRepository {
     read([]) { db in
       let boards = try Row.fetchAll(
         db,
-        sql: "SELECT id, name, ble_id, transport, created_at FROM boards ORDER BY created_at ASC"
+        // Live Boards only — a tombstoned Board is gone from every Rider-facing list (ADR 0027).
+        sql: """
+          SELECT id, name, ble_id, transport, created_at, deleted_at FROM boards
+          WHERE deleted_at IS NULL ORDER BY created_at ASC
+        """
       )
       let settings = try Row.fetchAll(db, sql: "SELECT board_id, key, value_json FROM board_settings")
       var byBoard: [String: [(String, String)]] = [:]
@@ -82,11 +86,13 @@ final class AppDataRepository {
     }
   }
 
+  /// Resolves tombstones too, deliberately: Ride History still has to name a deleted Board. Callers
+  /// that act on a Board rather than describe one check `deletedAt` and refuse (ADR 0027).
   func getBoard(_ id: String) -> [String: Any?]? {
     read(nil) { db in
       guard let board = try Row.fetchOne(
         db,
-        sql: "SELECT id, name, ble_id, transport, created_at FROM boards WHERE id = ? LIMIT 1",
+        sql: "SELECT id, name, ble_id, transport, created_at, deleted_at FROM boards WHERE id = ? LIMIT 1",
         arguments: [id]
       ) else { return nil }
       let settings = try Row.fetchAll(
@@ -121,9 +127,15 @@ final class AppDataRepository {
     let updatedAt = nowMs()
 
     write { db in
+      // An existing tombstone survives the write, so an ordinary upsert can never resurrect a
+      // deleted Board — deletion is terminal (ADR 0027). Only `deleteBoard` stamps a new one.
+      let deletedAt = try Int64.fetchOne(db, sql: "SELECT deleted_at FROM boards WHERE id = ?", arguments: [id])
       try db.execute(
-        sql: "INSERT OR REPLACE INTO boards (id, name, ble_id, transport, created_at) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)",
-        arguments: [id, name, bleId, transport, createdAt]
+        sql: """
+          INSERT OR REPLACE INTO boards (id, name, ble_id, transport, created_at, deleted_at)
+          VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
+        """,
+        arguments: [id, name, bleId, transport, createdAt, deletedAt]
       )
       for (key, value) in settings {
         guard let value, let json = Self.encodeJson(value) else {
@@ -139,12 +151,22 @@ final class AppDataRepository {
     notifyDataChanged(.boards)
   }
 
+  /// Tombstones the Board and hard-deletes its configuration. The `boards` row itself survives so
+  /// Ride History can still name it (ADR 0027); deleting an already-tombstoned Board is a no-op, so
+  /// the stamp is never moved.
+  /// @parity /modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/AppDataRepository.kt `deleteBoard`
   func deleteBoard(_ id: String) {
+    let deletedAt = nowMs()
     write { db in
+      guard try Bool.fetchOne(
+        db,
+        sql: "SELECT deleted_at IS NULL FROM boards WHERE id = ?",
+        arguments: [id]
+      ) == true else { return }
       try db.execute(sql: "DELETE FROM board_settings WHERE board_id = ?", arguments: [id])
       // Alert Rules are Board-owned (#254) — drop them with the Board so no orphan rows survive.
       try db.execute(sql: "DELETE FROM alerts WHERE board_id = ?", arguments: [id])
-      try db.execute(sql: "DELETE FROM boards WHERE id = ?", arguments: [id])
+      try db.execute(sql: "UPDATE boards SET deleted_at = ? WHERE id = ?", arguments: [deletedAt, id])
     }
     BoardConfigStore.shared.clear(boardId: id)
     notifyDataChanged(.boards)
@@ -191,6 +213,7 @@ final class AppDataRepository {
       "name": row["name"] as String,
       "description": values["description"],
       "createdAt": row["created_at"] as Int64,
+      "deletedAt": row["deleted_at"] as Int64?,
       "batteryConfig": values["batteryConfig"],
       "lastBattery": values["lastBattery"],
       "dismissedWarnings": values["dismissedWarnings"],
diff --git a/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.swift b/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.swift
index 43540c93..b2e79d55 100644
--- a/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.swift
+++ b/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.swift
@@ -541,6 +541,14 @@ enum TelemetryDatabase {
       try MotorConfigStore.createTables(db)
     }
 
+    /// Board tombstones (#428). Deleting a Board stops removing its row and stamps `deleted_at`
+    /// instead, so Ride History keeps a resolvable Board identity (ADR 0027). Additive and
+    /// nullable; existing rows stay live.
+    /// @parity /modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.kt `MIGRATION_36_37`
+    migrator.registerMigration("v37_board_deleted_at") { db in
+      try db.execute(sql: "ALTER TABLE boards ADD COLUMN deleted_at INTEGER")
+    }
+
     return migrator
   }
 }
diff --git a/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/TelemetryMigrationTests.swift b/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/TelemetryMigrationTests.swift
index 76343f83..25e79be1 100644
--- a/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/TelemetryMigrationTests.swift
+++ b/modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/TelemetryMigrationTests.swift
@@ -89,6 +89,25 @@ final class TelemetryMigrationTests: XCTestCase {
     }
   }
 
+  /// Boards are tombstoned rather than deleted (ADR 0027), so Ride History keeps a resolvable Board
+  /// identity. The column is nullable and additive: an existing Board upgrades as live.
+  /// @parity /modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/TelemetryDatabase.kt `MIGRATION_36_37`
+  func testBoardsGainANullableDeletedAtColumn() throws {
+    try migrate()
+
+    XCTAssertTrue(try columnNames("boards").contains("deleted_at"))
+    try queue.write { db in
+      try db.execute(
+        sql: "INSERT INTO boards (id, name, ble_id, created_at) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)",
+        arguments: ["b1", "Board", "AA:BB", 1_000]
+      )
+    }
+    let deletedAt = try queue.read { db in
+      try Int64.fetchOne(db, sql: "SELECT deleted_at FROM boards WHERE id = ?", arguments: ["b1"])
+    }
+    XCTAssertNil(deletedAt)
+  }
+
   /// Alert Rules are owned by one Board: `board_id` is part of the primary key so preset ids repeat
   /// per board instead of colliding. Incremental sync keys off this shape.
   func testAlertsAreBoardOwnedAfterEveryMigration() throws {
diff --git a/modules/vescape-core/src/index.ts b/modules/vescape-core/src/index.ts
index 73da37f6..5ecd1136 100644
--- a/modules/vescape-core/src/index.ts
+++ b/modules/vescape-core/src/index.ts
@@ -188,6 +188,14 @@ export interface Board {
   name: string
   description: string | null
   createdAt: number
+  /**
+   * Tombstone stamp: epoch ms of the rider's delete, null/absent while the Board is alive. Deleting
+   * a Board keeps its row so Ride History can still name it (ADR 0027). Board lists never contain
+   * tombstones — only a lookup by id resolves one.
+   * @parity /modules/vescape-core/ios/telemetry/AppDataRepository.swift `composeBoard`
+   * @parity /modules/vescape-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/vescapecore/telemetry/AppDataRepository.kt `toMap`
+   */
+  deletedAt?: number | null
   batteryConfig: BatteryConfig | null
   /** Last Battery SoC Estimate persisted natively; survives full app kill. `undefined` before first session. */
   lastBattery?: LastBattery | null