Here it goes:
the snap was at burleigh…1980…lip grind…
the floater 81 7’4"…same year as the 5’8"…
the blue board 7’8" gary linden…
gary made a star - fin board for himself it was 5’11" I tried it and loved it, was very similar to a knee board. this was one of my all time favorites,I was travelling with occy and we were eating fresh food once a day…lean mean fighting machines…occ was just coming on…occ never finished below quarter finals…I was in the finals for 6 contests in a row winning some coming second in some ended the run at oceanside in a 3 judges to 2 lost to greg day and his brother terry day was one of the judges…it was a great run and possibble the longest ever in the finals until today…im not sure of that…and its not a clame its just a fact…no its a clame LOL
the other 1986 sream in blue it was a 6’ rode the same board at 12’ sunset…was a good board
Cheyne,
There is another angle of the floater in the Matt George book on surfing. It’s from the guy with the camera in front of you. That air and that floater are so radical, they fit right in today. I love that top board.
Edit: Cheyne, I like your comments for the photos posted. I think I wait to post more photos until you’ve commented on the ones above. I’m trying to group them by similar boards from now on. I could go on like this for a couple days. Could be a very informative thread.
I have always liked the Buddist photo (East side Oahu)? Hands down the most innovative and interesting surfboard I’ve ever seen.
i’m intrigued by the board in that buddhist photo as well. any recollection of the dims cheyne? how’d it go?
What an interesting thread!, i’m also really interested on the board of the Buddist photo, i’ve seen it before and it looks sweet.
Here in Spain is now a shaper from Brazil called “Zulmar” (i think this is the correct spelling). He told me that back in the days, when everyone in Brazil wanted to ride what Cheyne was riding, he had in his hands lots of original McCoy’s and he shaped (copied) hundreds and hundreds of Lazor Zaps, so he says that he can shape me a LZ to try a Star Fin on the “original board”. Obviously i know it won’t be a McCoy’s, but i think it will be worth a try and the owner of the factory told me that the board would be “really cheap” for me. I also thought about asking him on trying to shape something like a Nugget or something like the board on the Buddist photo… i don’t know.
I’m big, that means 6’ and close to 200 lbs, and these days, with my “office life”, i surf more “bad small waves” than “good waves”. Any suggestions?
Rolliges, nice photo archive!
Coque.
ataboy Rob…NOW you’re doing it !
LONG time between drinks !
Keep the photos coming…and on Surfer too, eh ? [things seem a bit quiet there lately]
cheers !
ben
happiness comes in good photo stoke…
so, i’m curious. what are you riding these days?
I remember seiing these pics…the blue water shot…Don King…Richars price shaped it for me…5’6" at back door…went very fast and held in well…I was getting alot of boards at the time from Natural Art…didnt get to ride it in small waves…loved riding it at OTW and Backdoor…maybe 86-7
Cut Back water shot…nice facial…was a 5’11? Terry fitzgerald we spent lots of time in the bay as he didnt shape boards like this and i didnt ride concaves…it was a concave…went great 90% of the time…I won bells in 84 on this board …sold it in France so I could eat…
5’6" Buddudist board…wat a name …great name…heard it here 1st…that board flew 84 terry fitzgerald concave…went super fast in 2ft surf …made it for japan…discarded it goin to europe as i needed bigger boards worked for japan had to be 3 1\4 thick x 21"…wev took the picture on niijiima island off japan…i used to go to empty temples alone to find peace away from the hustle of the tour…
bottom pic…looks like im spinning out…didnt like that board…i wont say who shaped it…now i can sea y…aloha…where are you getting these shots?bak atcha
I love the outline and the nose of the one your doing a cutback on. Cheyne, who shaped the keel board you surfed in the second OP pro on. It has a strange looking tail that was not round and not rally swallow either. Do you remember that white board?
That under the lip carving you did on that board was unreal. It seemed to actually pick up speed through the Huntington mush section on southside.
Time for more:
OK, found a few more gems of the yellow board. Photos are so nice I wanted to post them large. Sorry if that slows you down. (These pictures were added after Cheyne’s commentary below).
Rob,
of all the board Cheyne rode in the old days, that one is my favorite. I wonder where it is? That is the one I think he is the most identifed with from that time period. Look how modern the surfing and board still looks.
that board was a gary linden…it was his board he loaned it to me for about 2 years…lol…i loved that board it did things no other board did…I won the record bar and had that close heat with curren…it was that good it could ride on sand…if you took of you could get across any section fast or flat…but the yellow in the pics is my all time favourite…“this is it” by McCoy was great all time as well, but that yellow board did everything and more…read the next one for story…
rolliges…this is my all time favourite 1982 5’ 10" x19 1\4 wide 17 1/4 tail…this board went great in everything had the tube of my life at burleigh on this board…shouldnt have come out…the picture is of mike ginsberg and myself…it was 10-12 ft cave rock…Shaun and mike tomson turned up…we went out Mike didnt get out shaun i surfed for hours…shaun on a 7ft mine a 5’10".Gins watched and said it was the best surfing he had ever seen…and that shauns run had come to an end…shaun was one of my heros as a kid and…the changing of the guard had to happen some day…gins took me all over africa he took me to points with noone out all the time…shark infested waters that he would never surf and bluffed me into goin out alone by saying this is one of our best spots.
the next one is a shot of cave rock
the bottom one is green point Rabbit and I went here every year…it was a fun wave with 1 or 2 guys out…the sqirt out of the turns was amazing…the whole crew at the McCoy factory were behind me getting the best boards made ,that spray was done by the best “Snow” he would hang out and surf with me…and I always felt he made the sprays to my moods and what i was trying to do…at this stage we were trying airials and sometimes making them…completely out of control as noone had gone past the lip line and back in again…1973-4 was when i developed the floater…not when nick carroll editor of surfing wrore that Sanga did in 84 , sanga surfed with me at avoca beach (where the McCoy factory is, )when he was a kid and thats where he learned to do the floater…he became world champion doing it…egos a funny thing …nick would never write anything about me as his brother tom was one of my biggest rivals at the time…happiness is riding waves…
I believe this is Occy’s board:
Cheyne,
I have seen more copies of that yellow double check board over the years. I think I even had one when I was 19.
I still can’t get over how fresh this stuff still looks. That cover shot is really good.
Gee, these are JOY photos , Rob !
…THANKS heaps for posting these…the 80’s decade of ‘surfing’ and ‘surfer’ I ‘cleaned’ out of my collection [d’oh!] , so it’s GREAT to see all these again ! [Thanks mate, keep 'em coming !]
How good is it that Cheyne is here to comment on the boards ??
swaylocks rules ! [thanks for contributing here, Cheyne !]
And, as someone else commented…I too am curious - what you are riding these days ?
…do you have any photos of your present quiver, please , Cheyne ? [perhaps your wife could get a shot of you with the boards ?]
cheers mate!
ben [aka 'chip']
yeah its good to sea these shots…im keeping all of them…i dont know how to put shots on i do have a quiver shot…of my aussie boards and a few jaws tow boards …im not sure how to put them on…i like your skate shot where was that…how are the parks now here we were running from the cops and now council are making the best skate parks for free…we still lived in the best time…i still love to skate…my daughter and son skate too…just starting…a few falls have slowed them down…i took my son out in a boat at 20ft…he didnt have a clew how much danger he was in specially with me…