Raced my mountain bike today. Met a friend of a friend while we were racing. We got chatting about surfing. He told me AT LAST COUNT he had 36 surfboards.

How many is too many??

haha well that other thread title "how long is a piece of string" applies here too. Some people like to have a few nostalgia/sentimental/wall hanger keepers...I have one coz it served me so long & had so many waves 1/2 way across the country without breaking. Mind you I surfed Margs main & Gas Bay, Grunters & Ellenbrook regulary for 4 years & waves around Apollo Bay SW Vic for 18mnths. The Rick Jacko Alloy Joys were/are amazing boards. So I have one keeper & anything else kept is due to not worth resale price or seen as a spare'y in conditions that break boards. I think I only have about 8 surfboards, 3 windsurfers & a 666/windsurfer atm

How many boards do ya need? You would need a few more similar boards in breakable conditions for spares, otherwise whatever covers what you surf.

I'm currently covered for small/medium/biggish sucky...& fat...but not for shifty over double overhead + or ++ waves...don't need a board for anything over triple shifty unless clean & mechanical coz I'd rather be behind a camera & realistic to my abilities. So different when you have a glassy clean shelf reef wave compared to not so clean shifty patchy reef. On reasonable fitness/skill you can get away with a 6'2 on triple overhead, otherwise it all comes down to luck (ie right/wrong place at the time).

I do really need something like a 19.5 x 6'8 x 2.75 with deep single into double late concave on the nose to round out my quiver & maybe a something similar only slightly longer/slimmer to round out my quiver as it currently is...but a quiver is probably never complete haha

I want more and I have 15 odd at home a couple down south at a mates house a few at me parents house..... Idunno you pay 700-1000 bucks for them and you sell them and get maybe2-300.... It aint worth it to me, the missy feels otherwise but I reckon if fellas from the 70s had kept all those boards that they owned than there is a high chance they would have 20 grand worth of collectable boards...... (that's how ya sell it to your partner) go buy yaself a board

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Razzonater said...
I want more and I have 15 odd at home a couple down south at a mates house a few at me parents house..... Idunno you pay 700-1000 bucks for them and you sell them and get maybe2-300.... It aint worth it to me, the missy feels otherwise but I reckon if fellas from the 70s had kept all those boards that they owned than there is a high chance they would have 20 grand worth of collectable boards...... (that's how ya sell it to your partner) go buy yaself a board

As a result of completely agreeing with about the resale not being worth it I currently have about 35 boards. Some are unrideable, but most could be brushed off and surfed tomorrow.

I think I have only sold three boards. Including my first which was a beautiful 7' Cordingley single fin. I should have kept that one.

A lot aren't age or fitness appropriate these days. 12-15 foot waves on a 7'8 X 18' X 2 3/8? No thanks. That was 20 years ago, two kids, and when I was surfing five times a week. 6-8 and 8' X 22" X 3"? Sounds good.

Really need to make seperate catergories for that question though.
IE:
1. Working quiver to cover boards being ridden regularly.
2. Collection quiver for boards that aren't ridden.
The No 1 could be split into 2 sub-sections for this forum as well.
The longboarder only quiver: for those who exclusively longboard. 3-4?
The all-rounder quiver: for those who ride short through to longboards. Once you go past 6-8 boards there are going to be dust gatherers (esp with guns or special ocassion/conditions specific boards in there) unless you have a lot of free time to surf.

Never too many I've given this guy RSI

As many as you can manage without needing to turn to a life of crime to support your quiver. Well...petty crimes should be OK, if its going to get that Performance mal over the line?

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Surf69 said..
Well...petty crimes should be OK, if its going to get that Performance mal over the line?

No crime committed ,here is my Performance mal with I picked up yesterday.

Yep that's sexy...one thing i don't have is a performance Longboard. I completely love my involvement, but a quiver wouldn't be right with out a performance long board i'm thinking.......crimes OK as long as no one gets hurt right?!?!?!

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Surf69 said..
Yep that's sexy...one thing i don't have is a performance Longboard. I completely love my involvement, but a quiver wouldn't be right with out a performance long board i'm thinking.......crimes OK as long as no one gets hurt right?!?!?!

right

Good story in PLM the last few lines are funny.

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Macaha said..
Good story in PLM the last few lines are funny.

Nothing funny about that

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