Yeah probably done a million time but still fun, I am a new comer so if yooove done it before feel free to ignore.

My first board was in 1976. 6'10" swallow tail Reno Abalira (dont know if thats spelt right), Hawain surfer/shaper. Surfed it in the Newy beachies. Eventually snapped the swallow tails off in a shory and had to go the Ray Richards surf shop and buy a "repair kit" (read length of fibre cloth and tin of resin) lo and behold the swallow tail became a round tail with a little hacking and molding.

Used to go to the Richards surf shop to get skateboard trucks and wheels and make our own skateboards. Mark recently closed the shop, sign of the times I guess.

Different times.

My brother and I both had 6'10 singles. We can't remember exactly who shaped mine, but we do recall Peterson. Might have been one of Tommy's. My brothers was a Col Smith from Narra. Mine was a rounded pin, and his was a swallow tail.

Mine was a 6.0 single fin blue tint with black pin line. The lable was "LaJolla" I wish I still had that board!!!

The old feller handed down his old pig to me (well more like I dislodged it from the bowels of his shed yeah) ..... bloody heavy old girl 10'er wouldn't have a clue who shaped her but it was US of Yank made ..... was pretty easy to get those pesky shortcocks (oops sorry gentlemen , shortboards!) outta the way , this thing just steamrolled her way through like a big dyke on her rags
I wasn't the world's best rider (still far from being average btw) but it was stable , chunky & a beautiful cruiser in any wave..... sh!t at times she'd have me & two or three cousins all riding / clowning around on it.

She bit the bullet in the late 80's up on Petra Street , fell off the roofrack and smashed some old folk's brick letterbox to smithereens on the other side of the road and broke into 3 or 4 bits

Ah memories , I miss that old Dyke!

PS: I paid the owners for the repairs to the letterbox and did the labouring too.

Mine was a 6 some thing single glassed in fin,mum forked out 10 bucks for it which was massive back then,thanks mum RIP
My brother in law was a good surfer in the 70's and I had him check it out with me frothing.I learnt at Greenmount surfed every Sunday on white wash and still remember the first green one.As you known I still surf that area and often look down the line and remember those sweet days.I received a massive fin cop one day and repaired it myself on the porch I mixed too much harder in and it started smoking and nearly set the house on fire.

I always have time for newbies because I remember those days well.

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62mac said...

Mine was a 6 some thing single glassed in fin,mum forked out 10 bucks for it which was massive back then,thanks mum RIP
My brother in law was a good surfer in the 70's and I had him check it out with me frothing.I learnt at Greenmount surfed every Sunday on white wash and still remember the first green one.As you known I still surf that area and often look down the line and remember those sweet days.I received a massive fin cop one day and repaired it myself on the porch I mixed too much harder in and it started smoking and nearly set the house on fire.

I always have time for newbies because I remember those days well.

i'm pleased that you can still get the odd green one mac, you must be well into double figures by now


btw nice story

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laceys lane said...

62mac said...

Mine was a 6 some thing single glassed in fin,mum forked out 10 bucks for it which was massive back then,thanks mum RIP
My brother in law was a good surfer in the 70's and I had him check it out with me frothing.I learnt at Greenmount surfed every Sunday on white wash and still remember the first green one.As you known I still surf that area and often look down the line and remember those sweet days.I received a massive fin cop one day and repaired it myself on the porch I mixed too much harder in and it started smoking and nearly set the house on fire.

I always have time for newbies because I remember those days well.

i'm pleased that you can still get the odd green one mac, you must be well into double figures by now


btw nice story

Lacey i only see him on the white ones you had better get there tomorrow and surf with the crew

Your getting sweet fk all tomorrow asea

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62mac said...

Your getting sweet fk all tomorrow asea

i'll be surfed out by the time you get there old cock

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asea said...

62mac said...

Your getting sweet fk all tomorrow asea

i'll be surfed out by the time you get there old cock

asea cant do the four hours old cock

sounds like there is going to be some bull**** hot surfing going down tomorrow

First board i rode was my Dads red Strapper 6'10 Pin single fin, second was a wood keel finned 6'2 swallow tail that was shaped for a kneeboarder mate of dads. Funnily enough it looked a lot like those groovy fishes people ride now.

My first own board was a 5'6 Brothers Neilsen shaped by Neil Purchase snr with yellow bottom and paint flick rails by Keith Halford, Dallas' Dad. Good board that one, dinged it first surf dropping in an old bloke, then it fell off the car. Got it fixed at the Hotstuff shop at North Burleigh if you remember it.

Like Mac I then become the neighbourhood ding kid fixing everyone's boards on the balcony. Fixing boards and ironing my uncles mates shirts before they hit the playroom kept me a wealthy 12 year old.

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CMC said...
Got it fixed at the Hotstuff shop at North Burleigh if you remember it.

Like Mac I then become the neighbourhood ding kid fixing everyone's boards on the balcony. Fixing boards and ironing my uncles mates shirts before they hit the playroom kept me a wealthy 12 year old.

Classic remember it all,met my wife at the Playroom
Hotstuff these a flower shop there now

i had surfed my neighbors snapped off nose foamy for a fair bit. my old boy told me he would get me a proper board he then got me(what i later found out was from the roadside chuck out) was a emerald 5"11 twinny.oooooohhh yeh a fiberglass board with fins glad i dont have it now

My first was a Peter Ryan double ender with a kind of S deck. They were made at Brookvale along with many others back then . Red bottom clear deck with black pin lines back in the early 70s. It had a big delam right in the middle on the deck but my parents used to take me down to Cronulla with it. Before that it was those solid heavy rubber surf mats.

1972 or there about - Wallace "popout" in tie dyed pink and purple. My folks had no money to spend on a surfboard, so I think they looked around for the cheapest thing they could find. To actually get it, I had to beat my Dad in a swimming race over 50 metres. After he let me win, they gave it to me for Christmas.

I tried to stand up but it was too small and short at 5'6" or so and all my mates thought I was a **** for having a purple board. It then hit me on the head a couple of times and as a young teenager I got spooked.

So I gave up and never rode a board until Easter 2010. Borrowing a mates Soul Surf until I found a really nice second hand Wayne Deane 9'4" in blue and orange.... That's what really got me to the point of not falling off on every wave. Now I ride the Wayne Deane on the smaller days and a 9' San Juan Slider by Bob Margetts on the bigger days, which we're not having many of on the Northern Beaches lately.

Michael

Mine was a 5'10" Mount Woodge swallow tail thruster with flyers and deep tail channels. I thought it was the best thing ever!!!!!! My cousin had brought it back from the Goldie and it became a hand-me down. Can not recall how much I paid for it but I remember racing the pavements on my milk-round paying it off. It would have been around 1986 - when Jason Butonshaw was treading his way through kirra barrels in the mags in boardies and blue sky back grounds. We could only dream what that must have been like as we fought the Hawkes Bay winters with snow on the top of the hill and offshore winds cutting straight trough ya. Ice cream headaches within 1 duckdive. Jeepers I miss those days - not!