Post your Bonzer stuff here!

Here's a cheap Bonzer5. But this is Aussie made I think... I see a Rhino Glassing symbol... No problem though... I would buy this for my home collection if I had any room left!!

www.seabreeze.com.au/Classifieds/Surfing-Shortboards/~a-2dx/2010-Campbell-Bros-Bonzer-5-6-6.aspx

all i need is any excuse

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laceys lane said...




all i need is any excuse

Looks like someones board needs to go on a diet.....why are fatties and 666 the same? Both are fun to ride but you don't want you mates to see them

So has anyone ridden one? Any feedback? To be honest I do not know much about them at all but have seen a few in recent times. Looked up a blurb on them

"The bonzers fundamentals lie in old naval architecture books. These concepts were applied to surfboards by the cambell brothers in the 1970′s which in turn saw them embark on a never ending tangent of concaves and fins. The boards are based on the “venturi principle.” which maximizes the use of the energy that is created by the water passing through the tail area of the board. For those who have never ridden a bonzer the first thing you'll notice is the unmistakable bonzer “squirt” of speed that is unique to this style of board. Theres nothing quite like the feeling of a bonzer it combines the grace and slide of a single fin with modern performance. The bonzer pre-dates the Simon Anderson thruster by a whole decade. Available in 3 or 5 fin setups the bonzer has a growing list of devotees, and many a convert has never looked back. See what the fuss is all about."

So they sound kind of interesting and look like they would be worthy of some time...but I can not really see it happening at my end to be honest. I guess if they were such a good design they would have taken off a bit more I think alot of the time you see people on boards that are just trying to be too cool / hipster / fashionable and I think to myself if only they had a normal thruster or quad they would have flown around that section and be having a ball instead of getting caught behind and never catching up Maybe I just ageing and getting more resistant to change and new ideas............NOT! I need to live where Simondo does - somewhere with a nice long right hand point break thats consistent so I can try lots of these types of boards out - after just one surf you would get a decent idea at a place like Winki's - its a lot harder to get a real feel when you surf beachies most of the time. It just takes longer.

Bro th eonly problem with all the long rights is trying to find a left so to tune up for Indo....I reckon I've gone 3 months in winter without going left...lol

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Tux said...

laceys lane said...




all i need is any excuse

Looks like someones board needs to go on a diet.....why are fatties and 666 the same? Both are fun to ride but you don't want you mates to see them

you do realise its a 12'6 race board

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Tux said...
Bro th eonly problem with all the long rights is trying to find a left so to tune up for Indo....I reckon I've gone 3 months in winter without going left...lol

Tux, I go Left at least once every time I surf...
When I hack a cuttie at Bells or Winki... I'm going Left!
Or even at Winki, racing, racing... racing down the line... then it finally shuts down, so I ride out and cut left... There you go... going left!

Just kidding!
In all seriousness, I think I've gone left twice this year... And the year is nearly over! Well, I can recall 2 specific waves I went left on... Maybe I went left 5 times... can't remember!

No lefts in Maldvies? When I spent 4 yrs surfing Raglan my backhand got really good compared to my forehand! Took yrs afterwards for the forehand to catch up!! I can only dream and reminisce about having a quality point as yr local. Ahhh perhaps one day it will happen again.

Heaps of rights in The Maldives... Every spot we went, there was a right and a left in the channel... The rights were usually better, plus I'm strong on my forehand and very weak on my backhand.

One of the locals tried going left here at Saltwater Point just the other day, we had a great cackle when he complained about bailing out and having to stand on the rocks.

I havnt gone left all year either.

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Ted the Kiwi said...
No lefts in Maldvies? When I spent 4 yrs surfing Raglan my backhand got really good compared to my forehand! Took yrs afterwards for the forehand to catch up!! I can only dream and reminisce about having a quality point as yr local. Ahhh perhaps one day it will happen again.

I'm pretty lucky that I grew up in the North of WA so my backhand skills were fairly well honed before I moved over east and started going right all the time....kinda wierd that all the quality lefts are on one side of the country and all the quality rights are on the other side..

Funny story about Malcolm Campbell. He was in manly doing some promo and working with this Australian licensee. His friend asks him to get some photos of the bower etc. He's standing on the top of the beach snapping shots of the headland from kind of mid way.

Next thing he is surrounded by about 20 people calling him a pervert and some big guys threatening to beat him up for taking pics of the girls.

He tries to explain to them he's taking pictures of the bower. He eventually shows them
The pics he took, all clear.

He was rattled though, straight off the plane to manly, jetlag and all, take some pics and nearly get beaten up by some dudes. He was rattled, we thought it was hilarious.

I had Murray make me some bonzers on my boards I use as a converter between SUP and my shortboard, like a big single fin style thing. Would love to try a real one though.