6’1" and 7’3" balsa singles, 1997 Aerodrome Rd, Mt Maunganui
James: first board
T Bloke trying to grow a beard as a disguise:
7 foot balsa/kevlar single, Childers Rd Gisborne 1996
Message to self: Stop posting pictures
Answer: No
9’1" balsa, glass free
surfing accident:
12 foot chambered balsa glassed with rayon print:
Classic evolution, that explains a lot and made me think of these.
Board#1 a 7’8" 1992
My neighbors #1 7’6" done at the same time.The little guys are teenagers as big as me now.
Hey Roy ,was just wondering if that surfing accident was from a fin or just blunt force?looks pretty nasty…one of your boards the culprit or someone elses???tell us the story behind that photo.
Boards #1-4 @ early 90’s
9’2" gun -lost at sea at Mavs.
7"6" gun -in garage.
7’10" funboard -gave it to a friend.
7’2" egg -love this board still ride it a lot.
my old hobby.
Ian
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Answer: No”
Classic! lol.
Classic, thanks for sharing, love the boards, kids, you guys pass, what can I say ?
That’s just god puting a smile where there wasn’t once one Lol. I once got 65 internal and external stiches in my leg from a surfboard fin. Look at me now. I like to call it passion. Something no one could accuse you of not having Roy.
Hi Hunty,
That slice was from the tail of my 13’9", it was on a really small day and I was swimming to retreive my board, rather overamped, head down, not looking, travelled faster than I thought and swam into the tail, just as the tail was rocking, up or down, can’t remember.
It was a clean slice actually and didn’t hurt, luckily a top surgeon was visiting the local Mount A&E so he stitched me up nicely with 36 little loops, I was back in the water a week later covered in zinc block.
Only the week before I was ridng the same board during the nationals at low tide Manu Bay ledge, pretty solid waves too , lost my board on one wave ( made 3 lost one ) and came up to see it cartwheeling through the air repeatedly, a pretty solid wall of whitewater to toss a 70 pound 13 footer like that, thought I was King Kong, pride before fall ?
The most frightening part was being driven by a freaked out wife, she’s a curb basher at the best of times !