hey all just wanted to get the word out Food and drink will be served.
BING COPELAND BOOK SIGNING EVENT
“Bing Surfboards – Fifty Years of Craftsmanship and Innovation”
Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:00-7:00pm
Foam, Fins and Fiberglass
1842 E. Main St.
Ventura, CA 93001
805-648-3626
Bing Surfboards is one of the longest-running and most progressive labels in the surfing world and its boards are still exclusively handcrafted in California. Its founder, Bing Copeland, played a major role in making surfing and the surfboard industry what they are today. At 13, he started helping out at pioneer surfboard maker Dale Velzy’s workshop in Manhattan Beach. During the mid-1950s he surfed the big waves of Oahu’s North Shore and Makaha in Hawaii. In 1958 he sailed across the Pacific and introduced modern surfboards to New Zealand. By 1959, back in Southern California, he began making surfboards commercially. This is the story of Bing Copeland, the business he built, the colorful cast of craftsmen he employed and the visionary surfboards they made and continue to make to this day.