I cant pass up a surfboard no matter how bad of shape its in if its free. This poor old quad was sticking out of a Juniper bush in a friends house. No surfers lived in the house, so I rescued it.
I don’t recognize Slick Hawaii, I have no idea who could have shaped it, but it looks mid 80’s to me. I remember growing up in that time and going to the beach never knowing how many fins you might see on a particular board. The fin setup however is not to different than some of the quads today. If you look close to the picture you may notice a double wing in the tail.
Does anyone recognize this board?
PS How do you cool expert dudes on Sway post the pictures below the text?
I’m pretty good with Photoshop but Sway will not let me show a photo of this board bigger than 1/2". Every time I try to upload it it wants the image to be smaller and smaller. If I try again it will probably disappear. I feel like there is a story behind this board but the image is to small to view. Sorry everyone, I’ll try again with a more computer able friend of mine the first chance I get.
slicky’s boards rock. i still remember his chanel bottom noseriders. eli was lucky enough to shape a lot with chris and you can see his influence in his current long boards. the trip is seeing some of his newer high performance short boards. the nose and outlines are a lot like some of the hp long boards i used to ride.
Won more than a few contests in his day as well. When I say his day; I mean into the late '90's. Ventura Beach Fest being one I remember and another at Malibu around the same time. One of the best noseriders ever. Blind without those glasses. I think it was Steve that lived on the Big Island. Him and Harrison were there during the same time frame and both gone befor their time.. I had a buddy who grew up in the So. Bay and knew those guys well. Actually another guy of that era and crowd would be Wayne Rich.
Chris Slick(enmeyer) and his late brother made some very special boards, at least to me. I’ve rode their LB’s since the 80’s and they feel so matched for me. They don’t look like anything special, but there is something about them that is and they defy being copied. Even gave a broken one back to Chris in the early 90’s which he copied exactly and it wasn’t the same. He then shaped me a very different one which rode like the original broken one. That’s when I knew there was something special going on. Chris told me he and his brother started shaping for Weber back in the day (as teenagers), so there must be some influence from Harold Iggy there. My current board is one of the last he shaped before moving to HI several years ago. Slick boards featured many different fin setups as well as a myriad of tail channel designs and wings. Chris had a unique channel design which looked like a butt-crack tail incorporated into a step about 6" ahead of a single fin. This looked something like John Kelly’s “hydroplane” design from the late 50’s.