"GEORGE GREENOUGH: SURFING UNDER THE INFLUENCE

George is pretty well preserved for a 63 year old. Surfing every day must have something to do with it…

I bought this very board off George back in the sixties for $50 cash- surfed it mostly at Shipwrecks up in northland New Zealand in the '80’s(where you could still get an uncrowded point break wave!), and then took it back to California in the late 90’s where I sold it to Greg Huglin for $1000 and I gave George $500 as a sort of fair share idea.
I sold it to Greg conditional on his not reselling it for a profit (it is worth over $7000 USD today), and Greg agreed to perserve it in his personal collection of surf memorablilia.

It is a great board to ride and I am really grateful to George for passing it on to me when he did. I also used it at the left in Huahine for a couple seasons and at Raglan in NZ.

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I bought this very board off George back in the sixties for $50 cash-

I sold it to Greg conditional on his not reselling it for a profit (it is worth over $7000 USD today)

It is a great board to ride and I am really grateful to George for passing it on to me when he did.

the $50aus would not even have paid for the cloth and resin to laminate the ‘spooned’ bit, I would imagine…even in THOSE days !!

How generous is George , then !!

[Imagine the HOURS of labour and love he put into creating that !]

ben

19 years old, making spooned balsa twin finned kneeboards in 1962 [love his comment regarding the fin[s] !!]… while the rest of the people were riding 10’ planks with football sized fins … ?!!

[photos used without permission: the australian surfer’s journal volume2 number2]

innovator ? …yes !

free thinker ? …yes !

pivotal figure for a ‘shortboard revolution’ ? …I’m sure !!

That’s to say nothing of his in the tube 1965 water footage, homemade boats, and go-kart !!

if you can get this [I imagine it was originally in ‘The Surfer’s Journal’] ‘George Greenough scrapbook : 1960-1970’ article I strongly suggest you read it, and study the pictures…I know I do !!

        ben


Is that Paul Gross in the Airmat section of “CRYSTAL VOYEGER”?

Josh.

…it’s probably George, Josh

Read the end of the second paragraph…“I originally made my balsa spoon as a twin fin, but as time went on, I moved the fins closer and closer together, and it kept working better and better. Eventually, it turned into a single fin.”

I remember reading those words years ago, and after years of trying things myself, have the same conclusion.

After alot of research trying to find the second matter It was…

Greg Huglin?? don’t know who he is but apparently he was ripping with george,

I also found those mats were Hodgeman brand…

yeew!

Josh.

That balsa spoon is really cool…

Speaking of Spoons how do you reckon my construction idea is to make a timber one?

Then you have a finished blank, so glass it then add a finbox into the ply… done?..!

Josh.



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After alot of research trying to find the second matter It was…

Greg Huglin?? don’t know who he is but apparently he was ripping with george,

I also found those mats were Hodgeman brand…

yeew!

Josh.

josh , re-read my reply on feb 5 at 1.49am

…it would have saved you a “lot of research”

yep, …

ben

p.s. Josh - the fins WILL happen shortly…another day or two at hicksy’s [gloss coating] needed… you’ll get 'em by about 10th march or so. [sorry for the delay…]

hi chip,

No rush on the fins! whenevers cool, I dont mind…

Thanks! Josh.

PS… what do you think a downhill skateboard kneeboard spoon would be like? trippy? you’d need a big hill.

HOW COME MY REPLY TO CHIPFISH’S POST KEEPS COMMING BEFORE HIS POST???

BOTH good questions, Josh ! …

I would say to the skatebord one…make one , and find out [and let me know how it goes eh ? ]

I only have a concave deck bowlrider [29" x c 10"] …that is FUN FUN FUN !! [I like it , anyway !!]

 ben

Okay here goes my ‘Reply…’ it should be before yourpost chip,

I might be better off carving out the center raver then building one?? I’ll try it one day.

Josh.

Hey, Its working again, sorry everyone…

2-3 foot sets at cape byron yesteday- as George said it was ‘shit surf’, but he and his buddy Boyd were having a ball…

http://www.funfotoz.com/2_racers.jpg

…notice how little wetted surface there is in under George’s Neumatic Mat- that’s why he goes so well, even in little waves.

Great Pics Wardiew!!!

That be watties? love it there!!

George rips, out.

http://www.funfotoz.com/

This is a sequence shot of George on a small, glassy Wategoes wave March 2nd '05.