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obct said...
It looks like the renaissance of this model had it's genesis in a real live board from the 90s.

http://www.mctavish.com.au/_blog/McTavish/post/Wategos_cruiser/


Isn't it strange how we forget these old types until someone comes along and says "how about this?" "let's see if we can do a modern version?".

Pigs are a good example, and I don't remember too many people bothering about logs 15 years ago, Trackers could be another example, I remember them from the 70s and they didn't look much like the ones we have now.

I guess you could even throw Simmons and twinys into the brew as well.

I wonder what will be the next design to get jazzed up.

Logs really weren't around 15 years back. The boards back then were mostly performance 9 's with heaps of rocker like the McT Blewitt models act. If you wanted to surf old school there was the old mal division in the comps or you tried tried to ride an old beast as best you could. Most old mals were dogs but every now and then a good one would come up . A guy at our club though used to get single fins made up and copied off some of the pig designs with the big fin and the soft rails and he always did well at the pointscores and the local events.
Traditional or progressive its all good.
Have you got any old ones lying around Ob ?

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62mac said...
Correct obct,they dropped the Wategos Cruiser because most folk have never heard of Wategos,so now its just named The Cruiser.

Red carded for this comment wtf,I know its not doggie,its someone in here yep a regular.

new cruisers, same old surfers.

when are you blokes just going to stick to one board

red skies at night

^^^^red? the sky has not looked that pink in a long time...was so puuurrddyyy

and red thumbs pffftt

^^^^
Not me brother , I'll wear clear PVC & latex strides around Byron Bay (without undies) as proof .... er wait a minute

No smh, don't have any old boards around the place, I'm not really a nostalgist, I'm happy for other people to collect them and for me to just look at them, but just recently, I did have to have a bit of a think about those old logs.

The guy who owns my local shop knows that I like to see anything new that comes in, if it's a biggy, so he pointed me in the direction of a circa 1965 Ron he had on the shelf. Probably 9.4 x 22 with a robust 5/8 stringer and fat 50/50 rails with a 6 or 7 inch square tail. It weighed a ton and was as flat as your mums old ironing board.

Now the thing is, I can remember 1965 quite well, I was about 1 year away from my first and only surf for the next 30 years or so and I loved boards.

But what I also remember was what people looked like back then and if you were even 75 kgs, your nickname was fatso so the people riding the boards back then were very different from the people who would try to ride then today.

Maybe that's why there's such a decline in old mal comps.

obct what happened in those years to not want to surf? aand what made you go back to the real love off your life?

That and the reality that not many people can ride those old boards and make them look good.

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smh said...
That and the reality that not many people can ride those old boards and make them look good.

when i had mine,i found how much i hated it. yeh the glide feeling and all that rot. it was hard to paddle,all this it is easier,well i say bs. oh the glide is fun,if you like to just go in a straight line. then you have to heave the fat bastard around. there is a reason why we progress. like a old ferrari,very very beautiful,yet if you want the most funwell get a new one

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smh said...
That and the reality that not many people can ride those old boards and make them look good.

when i had mine,i found how much i hated it. yeh the glide feeling and all that rot. it was hard to paddle,all this it is easier,well i say bs. oh the glide is fun,if you like to just go in a straight line. then you have to heave the fat bastard around. there is a reason why we progress. like a old ferrari,very very beautiful,yet if you want the most funwell get a new one

True Chrispy they aren't for everyone but some guys ( especially those skinny bastards ) can make them sing. It's good your loving your newie though.

pffff- a long board - 11 ft.

stop mucking around and get a 14' er or go really hardcore and surf a 15'3.

nothing better than a fifty metre plus bottom turn

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laceys lane said...
pffff- a long board - 11 ft.

stop mucking around and get a 14' er or go really hardcore and surf a 15'3.

nothing better than a fifty metre plus bottom turn

no-one likes a bloody showoff hahaha

I spoke to a shaper a little while back about an 11 footer and if he could make one and he told. Me he'd do me a 16 footer if I wanted one. Maybe a 15'7 would be nice.

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smh said...
I spoke to a shaper a little while back about an 11 footer and if he could make one and he told. Me he'd do me a 16 footer if I wanted one. Maybe a 15'7 would be nice.

now your talking

i wonder what sort of rocker he would do for a prone surfing board that lenght

and if you took it to the Alley ... by the time you got to shore it would be a giant shishkebab hahaha

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laceys lane said...

smh said...
I spoke to a shaper a little while back about an 11 footer and if he could make one and he told. Me he'd do me a 16 footer if I wanted one. Maybe a 15'7 would be nice.

now your talking

i wonder what sort of rocker he would do for a prone surfing board that lenght

Who knows but I have a name for it. The persuader [}:)]

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chrispychru said...
obct what happened in those years to not want to surf? aand what made you go back to the real love off your life?

Roughly in the following order:

I lived in the western suburbs

We had no money

I wast too young to drive

Short boards came along and I hated everything about them, I still do, I can't stand looking at circus tricks and wiggly bum turns.

I got married

I got a mortgage

I had kids

I raised kids

I sitll had no money

I started to surf then busted my knee helping one of my kids move house

I got into buggies and wasted 10. Years

I had a knee op in 2009 and started again

And here I am.

The real world obct,welcome back champ

Back in the groove Obs

I spent an hour at spotlight looking for fabric for the new cruiser,nothing stood out so after checking out young mac's new stick I mite go the sunset board colours and do this risen art.I really like the messy/I don't care look bottom tint look.

Yeah, I like it... That concept will be easy to apply to a Longboard Cruiser!

(1 hour in spotlight! - but you gotta do what you gotta do... I think I even said go to Spotlight and have a look... nothin' ventured nothin' gained...)







Poor waves today... Dirtbike Riding instead!

something new has got to have a touch of blue mate

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62mac said...
I spent an hour at spotlight looking for fabric for the new cruiser,nothing stood out

This may sound really silly Mac but I have been getting my material for my board bag creations from Ikea of late....they have some wicked prints. Well worth a stop by I reckon.

Well Simondo did not buy the blue cruiser.

Update mine will be shaped today and artwork sorted.

Nope, didn't buy that cruiser. I have my 9'6 Pin which is pretty cruisey already...

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Simondo said...
Nope, didn't buy that cruiser. I have my 9'6 Pin which is pretty cruisey already...

old hat now mate time for an upgrade

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Roughly in the following order:

I lived in the western suburbs

We had no money

I wast too young to drive

Short boards came along and I hated everything about them, I still do, I can't stand looking at circus tricks and wiggly bum turns.

I got married

I got a mortgage

I had kids

I raised kids

I sitll had no money

I started to surf then busted my knee helping one of my kids move house

I got into buggies and wasted 10. Years

I had a knee op in 2009 and started again

And here I am.

Nice work big fella...though I'm pretty sure your fibbing about not liking wiggly bums