Complete with parallel footstraps. Carve Nalu - eat your heart out!
what is it, John?
what is it made of?
Hahahaha!!! Well, if I didn’t see the paddle and the spot to sit I’d think someone decades ago was doing downwind stand up runs!! Looks to me you could easily stand on that… Gettin it to and from the beach, now that’s another story!
This is what I call wide point forward!
Well - it is a paddleboard (with a paddle) anyway. Pic was taken by a guy visiting a museum in New Zealand. Maybe Roy, Silly or someone down there can help.
http://web.media.mit.edu/…z_4-15-04/_nz14.html
EDIT: Maybe the above link will work. The paddleboard pics are on pg 5. I hadn’t noticed that buttwell. I agree, it looks like a sit down model.
Cool! I saved the pic to my files… We were discussing Stand Up Paddling the other day on how river rafters in the 1800’s, Peruvians, Hawaiians in ancient times etc, could not possibly have gone without figuring this out… I’m certain its not a Waikiki Beach Boy origin but a World wide thing that used all kinds of different things to stand up paddle for transportation… Like that reed boat picture from Peru or the guy surfing the Dori in the whitewayer… It just became a common thing with the Waikiki Beach Boys and now its going to be a common thing like never before World wide… Most who do try it will figure out that it is painful! Those who want a good workout will stick to it… A healthy addiction guys!
Hi Carve Nalu -
Please note my edit. I’ve seen photos of parallel stance stand-up surf boats. I initially thought it might have been used something like this…
Aloha:
When I was a kid growing up in South Africa I used to ride something very similar to that and it definitely was a standup paddleboard. The one we had did not have foot straps or a seat.
The construction was a painted masonite deck with the textured surface on the outside. An internal frame structure over which canvas was stretched and then painted.
Our one had a small aluminum fin which I think came from a water ski.
The paddle had a rope attached at the center and then it was tied to a handle attached to the nose of the board so when you stood up you could lean back on the rope to stabilize your self. Of course like the photo shows it used a kayak-style paddle not an outrigger-style paddle.
It was pretty wide and went like a bat out of hell.
My family was living on the Skeleton Coast of South Africa at the time and I had some serious fun on that thing.
I started out with my Dad taking me out with him standing and me sitting in front of him as he rode waves. I then graduated to using it my self. Actually used to fish off it a lot as well in protected waters.
What a flashback! This was about 50 years ago!
BTW, in South Africa the lifeguards used to use them as rescue boards if I remember correctly.
-Robin
Nice photo of an early wave ski, designed to be riden sitting down.
Just like what Snowy McCallister (RIP) was riding at Manly for about the last 50 years of his life
Yep,
Appears to be an Australian Wave Ski. Bud Brown had featured them in an early 50’s surf film.
Aloha Nalu,
You’ve triggered a semi-useless memory. There was a guy named Robert Flaherty who made semi-documentary films back in the silent era- Nanook Of The North is his most well known but he made a great ‘polynesian’ drama called Tabu (I think-I’m not home with the DVD to check) and an incredible film called Man Of Aran. Basically the VERY harsh life of the Aran Islanders and it has some unbelievable footage of the main character rowing a stand-up dory through storm surf. It’s never linked with SUP boarding in my mind until you mention it, but despite obvious equipment differences the similarities are impressive, especially since it’s the opposite end of the other hemisphere. I would bet my quiver that some Aran Islander at some time was pushing his curragh through the surf for no reason other than the thrill of riding it in on a good wave. We are born to play I think.
Long about page117 of "the pictorial history of surfing’
1970 paul hamlyn pty ltd
there are multi pictures of the illustrious Snowy
including a wooden pintail
tandem ski with multi footstraps
that make roy’s boards look small
pg 122shows the surf ski
pg 128 the surf ski gets a whole chapter heading
pg 130 and 131are a treatise on the surf ski abbhoration.
the eskimo double ended paddle and the hollow body construction
are the zenith of surf ski design dynamics.
is that paddle 14’ long?
standing up ?
definitivly!
pg 132 the subculture on site
the beach riddled with them dern skis…
and page 134 all the hot standup guys on one wave
on a saturday morning surf
even the tandem guys have a standing agreement?
but on pageone hundred thirty seven ,
the bathing beauty on the surf mat
those shocking scoop neck swim suits
could take a young man,or an old man for that matter
on a flight of fantasy and delight…
gotta get me one o’them mats
pure chick manets
and snow on a hard angle on the ski at Manly in 1962
somebody w/ a scanner reveal these photos
and my paltry hundred words will be eclipsed.
…ambrose…
is there any truth that the wave ski was invented
in Danzig?during the polish occupation?
formerly refered to as the viev blitzen kreig
in german speaking circles
Modern Kayakers call it striding. I’ve watched it performed from a canoe and the inflatable thrill seeker kayaks. They are running class V rapids (class V being the highest runnable class) in the IKs. The paddles are 10’ kayak paddles. Looked for pictures one day and never found any, but I do have a few video clips on VHS at home. The stance is straight forward really similar to how you would stand on the board above.
There are reports of the inventor being able to roll his striding machine. I think striding got started when the inventor broke his back and could not sit in a kayak anymore. He builds a wood helmet and chest and back protecters to.
Hafte
Hi CarveNalu -
I was thinking of you as I watched an old 16mm film strip I dug up… I think the footage is around 1935(???) as there are seen some solid wood longboards and maybe only a couple of hollow boards in the lineup. There is also some classic footage of outrigger canoeing, etc.
The main thing I thought you might like is some shots of a guy who looks like Duke Kahanamoku (maybe it is him?) on the front of a big SUP with three passengers(!) I tried to take some screen shots with a still camera. Sorry for the poor image quality… at least you get the idea.
more pics…
my favorite shot…
Very cool!! He has chicks crawling all over him! Haha!
Looks like a Hartley waveski designed in New Zealand ( an SUP) http://www.hartley-boats.com/surf.html
Hartley boat and surfboard designs have been around for a long time, could be of interest to Hicksy .
I knew it.
And the first wheel?..
them maoris I tell yoou?
…ambrose…
SUP is a euphemism for what we call waveskis or (more accurately) . . . . . Goatboats
HWS is a euphemism for the classic Kookbox
Thus the old Hartley crate is actually a Kookbox Goatboat
Or an HWS-SUP for the faint of tongue.
Please excuse the crappy image quality… this is a frame shot taken
from a friend’s home movie collection of him and his brother stand up
paddling their hollow wooden paddleboards in Michigan way back when.
Note use of double ended paddles. Estimated to be from late 50s.
Very cool classic shot! SUP may go as far back as Cavemen getting across a river on floating debris… It may even of been done before the first lay down paddler! Haha!