I have eight photos....I have a story that goes with the board.....I have dimensions.....
I hate the fact that boards over 7 feet are "fun boards" and boards over 9' are "long boards"......
How about a "fun short board" or a "long fun board" ??????????
The photo I was going to post last is the photo you see first......look at the Becker I'm repairing......Think about what's in the background....The goal is to have fun...Builder or rider......Have fun!!!!!
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That's a great looking board stingray. Any chance of getting nose tail width and length dims??. Im a huge fan of midlength boards. They work well in all of the waves i surf. I like the paddle but find they turn pretty good if you use your weight and move around a bit. My most fave board was 7'6'' x 16 x 21 1/2 x 14 1/2.Fun fun fun!!
P.S i was born in 80, so early 80's i was shitting my pants and spewing all over the place. Bit like the mid to late 90's ( except the shitting pants ) hahahah
...In 1980 I was riding a sub 6 foot shortboard. I had no interest in boards like this one. Now I'm really into this type of board...Funny how things change....I'm loving the radical bottom contours on this board. The board belongs to a college girl who lives down the street. She's a beginer with a forty dollar repair budget. This thing needs about 200 bucks worth of work but I'm going to fix it for 40 so I can take it for a tesrt drive. The center fin and box are Freestyle Fin system. I guessing the board was made in the late 70's / early 80's.
I have one last Clark Foam blank. I cut out the outline and started shaping it a while back but real life got in the way. It's a 6'11" so maybe I'll copy some of the bottom contours from this Becker
Enjoy the ride...
Ray
Hey Beerfan,
7' x 21 1/2" x 3". Those are my measurments not the shapers. Rear fin 4" tail to back of box. Sidefins are 12" from the tail. Thick bead at the base of the glass ons ,cant aprox 10 degrees.
Starting at the nose there's slight Vee for about 4" and then a big concave for about 25"...then we go into "rolled bottom" a.k.a. belly with a big Vee starting a few inches in front of the fins and flowing all the way out the back. Rails are somewhere between 50/50 and a D rail going knify out past the fins.
Board is signed by Becker.
Cool board. I have a 7-6, full railed, triple stringer Haut under my deck. Works unreal. Good in waist high to a few feet over. Cheater fives and all that stuff. Fun
Early 80's I was still a Banana Slug. Riding a six foot round pin. Met my current girl friend(wife) and especially liked to surf, oh, about four miles outside of town. Mike
