pic is below, if it loads.
the only info i have from the seller is that it's a single fin and might be 6'6", and the pic below.
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thanks in advance!
OP started out as a surfboard label. Cheer Critchlow was a featured rider at the time. I think they were based out of Encinitas? The label ‘morphed’ into a clothing company not long after its inception. I’m pretty sure this all occurred in the early 70s. The surfboard label debuted some time around 1971, as I recall.
I had an Op, short of Ocean Pacific, but by the time I was aware of it, it had the ‘sun wear’ attached, and I mostly knew of it as clothes, and when I saw an “Op” surf board as a “prop” in a clothing store… Well, I knew one thing. That board needed rescuing… Ha!
It most likely is one of the display prop boards that OP had made to sell to department stores in late 70’s to mid 80’s. In order to keep cost down the boards were all single fins. As far as I know, South Shore and Channin built 'em.
They where made as POS visual attention getters. A bunch of SoCal airbrusher did the art on them: Jack Meyers, Bill Stewart, Rick Karrin, Jeff Alexander, Paul Caster, Tom Inouye and your truly to name a few.
It’s funny where the board would turn up. The New Gidget TV sitcom that was aired in the 80’s used them for props in the shows. They didn’t bother to put fins in them so you’d see people walking around in the background scenes at the beach with finless boards.