which was best and what mods did you do

I never had one of those. My first weapon was a Mt Woodgee 5'10" swallow tail with deep tail channels that my elder cousin got me. Wicked fun!!!!

My first board was a 6.0 single fin pintail blue tint, it had La Jolla as a brand. I have never seen another one, I wish I still had it

First surfboard was a 5'4 swallow tailed belly channeled Neal Purchase Brothers Neilsen board. Orange with multi colour paint flicks.

I surfed it on Christmas day, dropped in on a guy, he yelled at me, I fell off and he ran it over. First ding.

2 weeks later the old occy strap hook straightening trick on the way back from D'bah and it's back to the ding shop.

I learnt to fix my own dings after 4 weekends on roofs with my old man to pay for the repairs.

My first board was a 6'7" Bob Davies Diamond Tail light blue deck green rails brown bottom cost $55.00 new board in those days was $80-$100. I remmber it had a realy large fin .

my first board was in 1974 alaskan king square tail single fin 6 foot something, great board until mum brought it home from the caravan park at currawong..... without tying it down on the roof racks

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towball said...

My first board was a 6'7" Bob Davies Diamond Tail light blue deck green rails brown bottom cost $55.00 new board in those days was $80-$100. I remmber it had a realy large fin .

How old were you, 35?

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weiry said...

my first board was in 1974 alaskan king square tail single fin 6 foot something, great board until mum brought it home from the caravan park at currawong..... without tying it down on the roof racks

Thats what happened with my first board, but it was my mates Dad

I remember way back when Southpoint were making Dave Kalama Epoxy boards 9'2" in yellow with a black kickpad...them were the days

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doggie said...

weiry said...

my first board was in 1974 alaskan king square tail single fin 6 foot something, great board until mum brought it home from the caravan park at currawong..... without tying it down on the roof racks

Thats what happened with my first board, but it was my mates Dad

But it gets worse doggie



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Dad decides to fix it with a handmade fin he made from plywood with the kookest shape"all boards at that time had 8" fins with a fair bit of rake"
Well time comes for the first surf with the new fin,
Here i am with my long blond hair, brown cord Levis, stripped golden breed tshirt, and sloppy joe, looking straight out of a coke add or SW magazine, well thats what i thought.
so i take the board down the beach and my mates see it and start P!SSING them self for what seems 10 min, then started calling it the camel. children are so cruel
so i think FECK this and put the board fin down and stood on it til the fin broke
when i turned the board around the fin broke and pealed the fiberglass back on one side too the rail
well my younger brother sees this and decides to square it with me "over a few crow pecks i gave him a day before"
and tells dad.
dad then takes the board to get fixed and doesn't give it back until i payed him back.
that took bloody months paper boys didnt make that much.
God i loved being a kid

If I want crap out of you I'll knock it outI started on 9'6" mals use to hire ,me dad would carry them down to the water

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doggie said...

towball said...

My first board was a 6'7" Bob Davies Diamond Tail light blue deck green rails brown bottom cost $55.00 new board in those days was $80-$100. I remmber it had a realy large fin .

How old were you, 35?

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towball said...

If I want crap out of you I'll knock it outI started on 9'6" mals use to hire ,me dad would carry them down to the water

doggie said...

towball said...

My first board was a 6'7" Bob Davies Diamond Tail light blue deck green rails brown bottom cost $55.00 new board in those days was $80-$100. I remmber it had a realy large fin .

How old were you, 35?

So 38 then lol

My first one was an old Kneelo,think I was about 6, dad got it from one of his mates, it was blue, no idea of the brand, it was a piece of ****. Smacked me in the head a few times so I lost interest in standing up for a while and dad binned it. Next one was a Round nosed 6'4 from pacific dreams.

There was also a late 60s early 70s Egan that was around 2, was one of dads old board, would love to still have it.

Be nice nowI'm doggies twin

I know you would have just been a tadpole , think I was about 13 doggie , had the same hair wore the same gear as weiry

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doggie said...

towball said...

If I want crap out of you I'll knock it outI started on 9'6" mals use to hire ,me dad would carry them down to the water

doggie said...

towball said...

My first board was a 6'7" Bob Davies Diamond Tail light blue deck green rails brown bottom cost $55.00 new board in those days was $80-$100. I remmber it had a realy large fin .

How old were you, 35?

So 38 then lol

O no two smart arses

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62mac said...

Be nice nowI'm doggies twin

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weiry said...

doggie said...

weiry said...

my first board was in 1974 alaskan king square tail single fin 6 foot something, great board until mum brought it home from the caravan park at currawong..... without tying it down on the roof racks

Thats what happened with my first board, but it was my mates Dad

But it gets worse doggie



Edit sample photo


Dad decides to fix it with a handmade fin he made from plywood with the kookest shape"all boards at that time had 8" fins with a fair bit of rake"
Well time comes for the first surf with the new fin,
Here i am with my long blond hair, brown cord Levis, stripped golden breed tshirt, and sloppy joe, looking straight out of a coke add or SW magazine, well thats what i thought.
so i take the board down the beach and my mates see it and start P!SSING them self for what seems 10 min, then started calling it the camel. children are so cruel
so i think FECK this and put the board fin down and stood on it til the fin broke
when i turned the board around the fin broke and pealed the fiberglass back on one side too the rail
well my younger brother sees this and decides to square it with me "over a few crow pecks i gave him a day before"
and tells dad.
dad then takes the board to get fixed and doesn't give it back until i payed him back.
that took bloody months paper boys didnt make that much.
God i loved being a kid

weiry that is a pisser. my old man got me a uncool cruiser for chrissy when i was 11(uncool because bmx had just come out and my mates even had tuffy wheels) so i decide to remove the mud guards and get it as close as i could to a bmx. well the first ride down the street i see the girl i liked and her friend so i tried to pull off a big mono in front of them. well i was not that good at putting sh1t back together and the moment i heaved that big beast back on one wheel, the bitch of a thing decide to leave the frame. i was farked up badly(physical and pride) my brother told the old boy and he faaarking cracked it. he gave the bike to the kid up the street who i hated

chrispy hahahaha and thats what your mates do best. laugh

i always wanted to be a dad when i was young so i could have that power.

1 problem was my son never got in trouble

Hell i better get a DNA test

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towball said...

O no two smart arses

62mac said...

Be nice nowI'm doggies twin

Two is better than one

Yer you a dog with two ---ks

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doggie said...

towball said...

O no two smart arses

62mac said...

Be nice nowI'm doggies twin

Two is better than one

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weiry said...

chrispy hahahaha and thats what your mates do best. laugh

i always wanted to be a dad when i was young so i could have that power.

1 problem was my son never got in trouble

Hell i better get a DNA test

You must have brought him up Wrong oops right. Or maybe you just didn't catch him

Great stories 2 boys.

I remember my first board well. The year was 2012 seems so long ago, it was an 8 foot fish, still got it now. Maybe I will always have it.[}:)]

I wish I still had my first board kadi , I'm sure you'll remember you second

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kadilak said...

I remember my first board well. The year was 2012 seems so long ago, it was an 8 foot fish, still got it now. Maybe I will always have it.[}:)]

Mine was a yellow single around 66 with a black lighting bolt on both sides ( which I painted on )

I still remember my first sup yellow naish

Ted my kids had been surfing an old ( ancient ) Mt Woodgee 5 ft 10 swallow tail with deep channels . I sold it about 4 mths ago to get them something with more floatation . I bought it in Qld at a garage sale about 5 - 10 years back I ve got a picture somewhere see if I can find it .
My 1st board was a 7 foot single fin bought it from the old surf shop which used to be on palm beach years ago . Paid $15 for it buggered if I can remember the brand of it . Second board was a 5 ft 10 sky twin fin with a rainbow pattern across it . I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen at the time . Had it for years

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62mac said...

Mine was a yellow single around 66 with a black lighting bolt on both sides ( which I painted on )

I still remember my first sup yellow naish

lightning bolt Lopez influence there mac



and first yellow WTF

It was mate Gerry the man

Oh I sold it and got myself a red sup goes faster then I sold it to one of our seabreeze friends.

1970 I cant remember the make because it was last century, but it was a 10 footer and it loved shovelin into sand banks

First surfing experience was with the old rubber surf-o-plane. Used to have to have lungs like pammy anderson to blow it up.

At least you could take it in the flag area.

I never realized Pam Anderson had big lungs not like I ever looked at that chest .

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Ted the Kiwi said...

I never had one of those. My first weapon was a Mt Woodgee 5'10" swallow tail with deep tail channels that my elder cousin got me. Wicked fun!!!!

Heres the old Mt Woodgee we had Ted bring back any memories