Hi! I’m looking for information about a surfboard that I found in my grandparent’s garage. The logo says Hansen by Roland. I can’t find any information about the board. It is 6’0 and the serial number is 27781. I need to find a fin for it if anyone knows anything about it. I just recently got some ding repairs fixed. Any info would be a big help. Thanks!
pics??
Yes. Photos are necessary if you want to get a fin. Otherwise you are wasting your time and ours.
Joe Roland was from the Jacksonville, FL area and rode for the Hansen label, briefly. Around 1969-70.
http://www.eastcoastsurfinghalloffame.com/Pages/98roland.html
Aloha,…SammyA,…got her right on again—Joe Roland, eastcoast rider for Hansen—had his own model.
Aloha, Randy
Joe Roland another name from days gone by.
Joe still lives in jax and rips. I remember the Roland Models. Back then Hansen was blowing their own foam (or having someone do it). I was shaping with Jim Phillips in Rhode Island and we used their blanks. Might have a waveset box?
Good morning,
the Hansen by Roland we own was purchased new in 1970. It is 6’-10", has a Guidance system fin box (fin is long gone of course ). I believe Juan Rodriguez at oneworldsurf.com is repopping them, but I could be wrong. Best of luck.
There was a guy in Del Mar making blanks. Sunset used them and I would think that other north San Diego county companies use them.
Joe Roland was part of the Hansen “team” at the same time Gerry Lopez was. There was a Hansen “Stratoglas” Roland model in their brief foray into hollow sandwich shelled boards. Roland was also afilliated with Rick Surfboards for a brief time.
Hansen did blow their own foam and it was the cause of the Clark Foam lawsuit against them.
Pretty sure it was Popov with the foam operation in Del Mar.
Once the Clark vs Hansen lawsuit was settled it opened the doors for some, albeit brief, competition in the foam biz. We started blowing foam at G&S and called it “Pacific Foam”.
Before that, and after he left Clark Foam, Jack Popoff came on board at Hansen to set up the blank operation there. Later, Jack went independent, and set up in a small operation in the back of Surf Systems, in Solana Beach, where the ‘‘Belly Up’’ is now. We used his foam at Surf Systems, and at Surfboards Hawaii through 1971, when I closed both of the shops.
I liked the Popoff foam . Shaped a bunch of boards for a guy named Brummet and he provided the blanks. I had a shaping bay in Del mar…nothing like fresh foam. Back then you had to shape the blank to make a blank and it was nice to run the planer full blast wide open at high speed with no tears.
It was not uncommon to be knee deep in foam after a couple of boards. Nobody knew about vacs and shit like that. I also used to walk barefoot 20 miles to get to the shaping bay. And…it was always snowing or raining. And…ahh never mind
Cleanlines I recall the Blizzard of 71. Those silly bamboo thong sandals just didn.t cut it in deep snow.
I was selling Hansens from my shop in Rhode Island, Joe would come up from Jax with Bob Mosher, Hansens sales rep. My father inlaw had a huge mansion on Ocean Road in Gansett and Joe and Bob would camp out on the estate for weeks at a time if a swell was running, Joe got K-39 at a nice 3-5 feet, a left at that, a goofy foots dream, he put on quite a good showing for the Rhodidiots
Ahh yes. K39. I can remember surfing with Jim and the Roland brothers at that break. The first time Jim took me there I about shit my britches…I had never seen a left like that anywhere.
My family rented a house one block from there, every Summer from 1962 to 1967. It’s one of the spots where I learned. The rock bottom was an incentive to improve as quickly as possible.
An old friend lives right there, to this day. He’s a violin maker, now.
Which shop was that, Jim? I recall Will Jacobs was a Hansen dealer back then. He had the Tasca brothers on his “team”.
Jim Jenks was Hansen’s manager. He went on to start OP. But while he was at Hansen’s he wanted to see what was going on over at the Popoff operation. He goes in and there’s no one around. They were out to lunch. So Jenks is just nosing around to see what he was up to when Popoff came back. He goes, “Hey, Jenks what do you think you’re doing? You’re not supposed to be in here.” And Jenks says, “Hey if you hadn’t of left the window open I wouldn’t be in here.”