Found a couple gems hidden deep in the backyard of a mates place last night. I knew he had a few boards there - he had about 20!!! I have taken a couple of them off him and brought them home for some love. They certainly need it - it looks like they have not seen any for a long time. I am looking forward to riding them both once I get them water tight. Should be a blast. The orange one is 6'7" and the pale green / blue one is 6ft. They are both pretty chunky and have had some pretty poor efforts at repairs. I am not going to try and colour match them, but will dig out all the old poor efforts at fixing and make sure they are nice and water tight. They are almost past the point of no return. Will keep you posted as I progress. Will take some time I am a thinking

Nice ted, Any signatures on the bottom? I see frank Latta is on 1.

There is some work in that lot

Tke a bit of work but they should fix up alright...yellow one looks like it would go pretty good

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doggie said...
There is some work in that lot

yes - I am under no illusion at the scale of the task!

SP - that name is there but there is a lot of weathering and gunk - will have a proper look around later in the week when I get some spare time. I got the measurements with a good old tape measure!

Mick - yeah I really like the look of that one as well - very similar to one I learned on many many years ago

those dings look like character marks to me

^ and

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62mac said...
^ and

and what.

photos of a old brothers nelson single area pin i picked up. in good nick except for the tail. a shaper did a replica of it. it was a bit small for me but it surfed pretty good.

i ended up selling the original. never surfed it because i didn't repair it and well it was such a nice board it needed to be done properly

i was surfing singles for a bit back there. even had murry shaped one for me that was really good in hollow dbar. we even found an old pipedream decal for it

you have to surf the bastards, but they do make you surf better and smooth you out. it was nice to be able to trim more forward in a barrel

when you hopped back on a thruster you felt like superman or like mac on his cruiser


ps nice finds ted



pps. its funny i tend to think back in the day we had these slick boards. seeing the brother nelson was a shock even thou it would have been the latest thing in its day. geez they were thick back then

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Mick - yeah I really like the look of that one as well - very similar to one I learned on many many years ago

Nice

Wish I'd kept a couple of old boards I can recall from my past, I'd really appreciate them now...just been way too nomadic till the last few years.

wow Ted interesting discoveries - so you are repairing them mate

ted...i would rip the skins off them,fine out the blank and reglass it...we know you can do that charging rhino i watched it in a movie and thought it was cool

^^^
bit of nostalgia mate - was the original signature sunset that girl - pretty damn good value for a prospective buyer given the way you look after them - fin included too !!!

Sad but in truth for some reason I couldn't ride that board.Best thing I've done was replacing it with the cruiser.

Anyway off to pack my board for the trip

Picked up this old girl for 121 bucks on ebay, shaped by Brett Munro.

A little repair on the tail and good to go.

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laceys lane said...

Nice work LL - looks a little small fro me though........

Pup - definitely will be doing the repairs myself

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ted...i would rip the skins off them,fine out the blank and reglass it...we know you can do that charging rhino i watched it in a movie and thought it was cool

Find those signatures first, few well known names have been through both of those places, I'll have a look on surfresearch but off the top of head... I'm guessing... But Bob was at both, definately san juan and think greenough even shaped a few kneeboards at sky and a few other names shaped there aswell.

Sanjuan...


www.surfresearch.com.au/msan_juan.html

Although yours seems to be shaped by frank Latta, who is pretty well known himself,


From the SMH. 5/8/2010

Australia's first world surfing champion, Midget Farrelly, has paid tribute to veteran surfer and board shaper Frank Latta, who died yesterday surfing off the NSW north coast.

Farrelly said Latta, 63, was one of the best surfers in Australia in the 1960s who took more than one surfing crown off him during those years.

"I regarded Frank as the real thing, the genuine article, the real goods," he said.


Frank Latta surfing in the early '90s.
"His competitive nature in the water was really interesting; he had the ability to win but he didn't have to tread on your toes to do it."

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Latta, who grew up surfing at Cronulla, was dragged from the surf at Valla Beach, Nambucca Heads, about 11.30am yesterday.

He had been surfing for about an hour when fellow board riders saw him catch a wave, then spotted his body floating near his surfboard moments later.

They tried to resuscitate Latta as they took him into shore and paramedics worked on him on the beach but they were unsuccessful, police said.

A report is being prepared for the coroner.

Farrelly said Latta was an "independent operator" and a very good surfer.

"He was an underrated surfer and poorly acknowledge by the media monopoly at the time, which focused on others," Farrelly said.

"One of the things I felt about Frank was that he was always capable of getting to the final and one of those guys who refused to crack.

"A lot of people get anxious when they get to the finals but not Frank. I rarely saw him crack."

Latta was a well-known longboarder in the 1960s.

He returned to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s, winning contests as a middle-aged man when longboarding gained momentum as a professional sport.

Latta then spent more than two decades shaping surfboards with John Skipp at Wollongong board company Skipp Surfboards.

"He won quite a lot of longboard competitions in recent years and he was a leading surfer back in the '60s," Skipp said.

"He had really good surf sense, he could really read a wave and he could employ some really good tactics when it came to a contest."

Latta excelled at boxing as a teenager and played competitive snooker as an adult.

In the last decade he returned to a childhood love of pigeons and began racing them on the north coast, Skipp said.

"Frank was a fellow that approached everything with a 'well if I'm going to do this I'm going to be good' attitude," he said.

"With the surfing he started back in the '60s, '70s and when the longboard surfing became popular again in the last 20 years, as we all aged, Frank took to competition again.

"He was that keen that he didn't work before a contest. All he did was train and he actually started to win contests again in his 50s.

"He could apply himself to the point I was jealous. I couldn't put as much energy into a project as he could when he wanted to."




And a video tribute.

www.boardcollector.com/2010/09/frank-latta-tribute.html....

And have a look at that guys site while your there, he has a great collection.

A bit on sky

www.surfresearch.com.au/msan_juan.html

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ted...i would rip the skins off them,fine out the blank and reglass it...we know you can do that charging rhino i watched it in a movie and thought it was cool

what, do you think they're a couple of bananas

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SP said...
Sanjuan...


www.surfresearch.com.au/msan_juan.html

Although yours seems to be shaped by frank Latta, who is pretty well known himself,


From the SMH. 5/8/2010

Australia's first world surfing champion, Midget Farrelly, has paid tribute to veteran surfer and board shaper Frank Latta, who died yesterday surfing off the NSW north coast.

Farrelly said Latta, 63, was one of the best surfers in Australia in the 1960s who took more than one surfing crown off him during those years.

"I regarded Frank as the real thing, the genuine article, the real goods," he said.


Frank Latta surfing in the early '90s.
"His competitive nature in the water was really interesting; he had the ability to win but he didn't have to tread on your toes to do it."

Advertisement
Latta, who grew up surfing at Cronulla, was dragged from the surf at Valla Beach, Nambucca Heads, about 11.30am yesterday.

He had been surfing for about an hour when fellow board riders saw him catch a wave, then spotted his body floating near his surfboard moments later.

They tried to resuscitate Latta as they took him into shore and paramedics worked on him on the beach but they were unsuccessful, police said.

A report is being prepared for the coroner.

Farrelly said Latta was an "independent operator" and a very good surfer.

"He was an underrated surfer and poorly acknowledge by the media monopoly at the time, which focused on others," Farrelly said.

"One of the things I felt about Frank was that he was always capable of getting to the final and one of those guys who refused to crack.

"A lot of people get anxious when they get to the finals but not Frank. I rarely saw him crack."

Latta was a well-known longboarder in the 1960s.

He returned to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s, winning contests as a middle-aged man when longboarding gained momentum as a professional sport.

Latta then spent more than two decades shaping surfboards with John Skipp at Wollongong board company Skipp Surfboards.

"He won quite a lot of longboard competitions in recent years and he was a leading surfer back in the '60s," Skipp said.

"He had really good surf sense, he could really read a wave and he could employ some really good tactics when it came to a contest."

Latta excelled at boxing as a teenager and played competitive snooker as an adult.

In the last decade he returned to a childhood love of pigeons and began racing them on the north coast, Skipp said.

"Frank was a fellow that approached everything with a 'well if I'm going to do this I'm going to be good' attitude," he said.

"With the surfing he started back in the '60s, '70s and when the longboard surfing became popular again in the last 20 years, as we all aged, Frank took to competition again.

"He was that keen that he didn't work before a contest. All he did was train and he actually started to win contests again in his 50s.

"He could apply himself to the point I was jealous. I couldn't put as much energy into a project as he could when he wanted to."




And a video tribute.

www.boardcollector.com/2010/09/frank-latta-tribute.html....

And have a look at that guys site while your there, he has a great collection.

A bit on sky

www.surfresearch.com.au/msan_juan.html

ahhhhhh now we see some history in Ted's finds ,,,,, Ted you have at least one valuable resto piece for sure mate .... good work SP !!!!
@Ted - hope they come back shiny as mate onya

Nice work SP - there was another Frank Latta in the collection as well - best I try to save that one as well.......it was a lovely looking twinny - I thought I would do that one next.

Dam you SP - just spent some time searching around.....and found this collection of boards from 1975 - 1985 - left to right they read - some nice ones........




Mc Greigor, thruster with jet fins. AU
Hot Stuff, Al Bryne shaped single fin pin tail. AU
Bryne, Tom Carroll model square tail thruster. AU
Jackson, Lim Parkinson shaped rail channel thruster. AU
Section 8 twin fin. AU
Jet , twin fin. AU
Hot Stuff, single fin pin tail. AU
Bryne, Tom Carroll model rounded pin tail thruster. AU
Wave Crest Hawaii stinger single fin shaped by Doug Bell. AU
Channel Islands Al Merrick designed Doug Bell shaped thruster. AU
Country Style Angourie twin fin. AU
KC, Greg Trotter shaped twin fin. AU
Local Knowledge tripple fly swallow tail twin fin. AU
Canyon big wave tri fin shaped by Rusty Rreisendorfer. US
Bruce Jones, twin fin. US
KC, Greg Trotter shaped thruster. AU
Sky, Bob Mc Tavish shaped twin fin. AU
Hot Butterred, Terry Fitzgerald shaped Drifta. AU
Emerald, Jim Banks twin fin. AU
Bryning Spear, Al Byrne shaped extreme channel bottom gun. AU
Glen Winton, Glen Winton shaped quad. AU
Hot Stuff, extreme channel bottom gun. AU
Free Flight, Col Smith shaped channel bottom pin tail single fin. AU
Jackson, Jim Parkinson shaped twin fin. AU
Mark Richards, Bob Margrets shaped bat tail twin fin. AU
Strapper, turbo fin thruster. AU
Bryne, T&C clinker bottom twin fin shaped for Vince Klyne. AU
Energy, Simon Anderson shaped twin fin. AU
Emerald, twin fin shaped by Steve Griffihs. AU
T&C, Nev Hyman shaped, square tail thruster. AU
Energy, thruster. AU
T&C, thruster shaped for Kingsley Looker. AU
Energy, thruster shaped by Scott Beggs.AU
Energy, thruster, AU
Energy, single fin shaped by Simon Anderson. AU
Energy, thruster. AU
Star, channel bottom single fin shaped by Alan Bean. AU
Hot Stuff, Al Byrne shaped single fin. AU
Mark Richards, stinger. AU
Hot Buttered, Greg Webber shaped thruster. AU
Mark Richards, Bob Margrets shaped twin fin. AU
Sun Dancer, twinzer / quad. AU
Nirvana, Glen Winton shaped flex fin twin fin. AU
Energy, Simon Anderson shaped for Simon Anderson, single fin. AU
Bruce Jones, twin fin. US
Rip Curl, Wayne Lynch designed Bill Shrosbree shaped thruster. US
Lightning Bolt, Bill Barnsfeild shaped twin fin. US
Lightning Bolt, Tom Eberly shaped twin fin. US
Lighting Bolt, twin fin. AU
Lightning Bolt, Stuart Cadden shaped twin fin. AU
Lighting Bolt, twin fin. AU
G&S, highlighter single fin shaped by Greg Solnes. AU
Lightning Bolt, Ken Bradshaw shaped single fin. US
McCoy, Lazor Zap shaped by Geoff McCoy. AU
McCoy, Tri Zap shaped by Geoff McCoy. AU
Sky, single fin, shaped by Robert Fenech. AU
Byrne, clinker twin fin. AU
Hot Dot, thruster shaped by Grant Miller. AU
Daniell, twin fin shaped by Peter Daniell. AU

yep, everyone of those were macs boards before he turned his attentions to long boards and mct


signed snow white

^^^
aka The Scarlet SIC Pimpernel

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thePup said...
^^^
aka The Scarlet SIC Pimpernel

hahaha yep

Rick Jackovich
Alloy Joy (Steel Stringer)
6'8 x 18 x 2 1/2

Bought it second hand in cash converters for $250 in 1993. Its my old faithful, surfed it as recently as low tide Balangan last September. Love it

Epic collection Ted...looks like an awesome back yard too

is good board porn