Here's my keeper.. .. The original 14' Glide.

Even though the new one is better.. and faster.. The old one is a classic and I never want to sell it..

DJ

it's probably not going to be the same with SUP as so many are mass-produced if you really want that board again you can just go get one, even on the second hand market. For me the 9'3 Naish was pretty good. But I think my current 8'8 LSD will be a keeper, can't see me ever getting rid of that one.

I just picked up a bruised and battered 10'6 NSP, I think that will be a keeper too as anyone can paddle it and with the marks already all over it it's a great family and friends board.

love my PSH 10'6 extra wide ripper,a definate keeper

62mac said...

Yeh Sparx's it was meant to be posted in the LB forum but as sup is a few years old now I guess some of you will run with it.

Keep Ripping

All good mac
Just gotta realise some of us have been surfing a hell of a lot longer than stand up.
Just remembered, I actually have a plastic molded "wavetite" from the early seventies in the shed which was my graduation board after the coolite. The coolite was a killer, it could rub your nipples off in under an hour so mum covered it with an old chequered table cloth. The wavetite had black GT stripes, way cooler!
Cheers
Sparx

Sparx said...

62mac said...

Yeh Sparx's it was meant to be posted in the LB forum but as sup is a few years old now I guess some of you will run with it.

Keep Ripping

All good mac
Just gotta realise some of us have been surfing a hell of a lot longer than stand up.
Just remembered, I actually have a plastic molded "wavetite" from the early seventies in the shed which was my graduation board after the coolite. The coolite was a killer, it could rub your nipples off in under an hour so mum covered it with an old chequered table cloth. The wavetite had black GT stripes, way cooler!
Cheers
Sparx

Have been surfing 43years,still get my '65 Gordon&Smith 9'6 in the water occasionly

hilly said...

never letting this one go 10 x 29 hand shaped by Blane. Bit heavy but works so well in solid waves

Sick looking board hilly , looks like a great allrounder. Nice!!!

Hope you do mate,ones loss is another mans gain

Pando71 said...

hilly said...

never letting this one go 10 x 29 hand shaped by Blane. Bit heavy but works so well in solid waves

Sick looking board hilly , looks like a great allrounder. Nice!!!

That deck grip is a work of art in its self.

62mac said...

Has anyone found that board that you just love,the one that does everything you ask of it!

Not Lacey, cause the next one is always the best

I can think of two boards I had around 1980 that I wish I'd kept. An MR he shaped and rode and glassed by Mick Adam and a 5'11" custom by Peter Mccabe (tradewinds)

My Mark Plater 5'10" thruster with black and grey paint job and 4 channels was simply awesome. SUP wise Im saying the board I have now (12'6 Fanatic and 9'5 Starboard WP).

One last treasure from the shed.
Definite keeper!!
This is a Feral fish shaped by local guru Dave Lucas. Dave shaped every board I ever owned between nineteen eighty and ninety eight, absolute freakin genius but little known outside of this particular neck of the woods. Had this one shaped cos I was over the whole rockered out potato chip thing and the way those boards could make a session in average surf an absolute misery. Had been watching a lot of Andrew Kidmans Litmus and thought Deryk Hynd looked like he was having an absolute blast on those Skip Frye fishes. Just said to Dave, "go nuts, use your imagination" What is also interesting is that this board pre dates the whole quad fish, fishy revival by a considerable amount of time and is kind of a left field approach. The design on the bottom was a permanent fixture on every board Dave made for me, so if you see one around chances are it was mine once. It came off an album cover by a band called the British Beat that we were big into back in the day. Turns out this was the last board Dave would make after a life time of shaping thumped him in the health department.
To cut a long story short....Its a keeper.




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Cheers
Sparx

Was in the shed today dragging out the mower and I spied the old Wavetight sitting in the rafters. For you wippersnappers who dont know what we're on about....... behold!!



...to an eleven year old it was the ducks nuts...

Sparx

Now there's a flashback. Mine disappeared in a house move somewhere in the mid-70's. I was gutted.

Check this out:

http://www.vonweirdos.com/sold/Wave-Tight-Plastic-Board_392.htm

The McT Fireball with flame spray in the middle is the board I was referring to in my earlier post,two years on I have the new keeper