Here(chip) are some shots of my dads stringerless Frye fish.
Hope you all enjoy
-chris
thank you thank you !
How does it SURF ?? have you had some good waves on it yet ?
…I hope so !
…I loved Skip’s segment in the 'changes" video , and also ?“sprout” ? [or was it “glass love” , I forget which !]
cheers ,
ben
Nice. did your dad ride that as a kneeboard or stand-up?.. I have a old 70’s 5’5" blue resin tint fish with no label markings or name on it. The fins and that out line of that Frye are so close to what I have. did Mr. Frye always use a logo or pencil drawing to label his boards,even on solid resin tints? anyone know?
Yeah, I am almost positive he always either had signed or put a logo on all of his boards.
-chris
Sean Mattison on his 5’8" Skip Frye fish!
I just aquired a cool DVD called “It WAS Better back Then”. Basically a Super 8 home movie put onto DVD featuring mainly Florida surf from the early to late 70s. Lots of the east coast hotties from Jeff Crawford on through Greg Loehr and Pat Mulhern among others. Most interesting was the segement of the '74 US Championships which were held at Cape Hatteras. Among those ripping the Lighthouse lefts besides Greg Loehr, Jim Cartland and Rick Rasmussen was Tony Staples, who was riding a Frye single fin fish. Quite long too, about 7 ft., but he was drawing some clean, smooth lines. Skip was shown with the board, but even if you saw Tony riding that board today, I think he’d turn heads with the surfing he was doing. I had read a lot about that meet during that period and it was quite interesting to see Greg’s rather vertical off the lips and some pretty hot cutbacks too. Cartland drew some nice speed lines, not the kind of style I would expect from the east coast and Rick Rasmussen pulled off some nice lip smacks, tubes and cutbacks.
…was that the contest Rasmussen won , or Gregg Loehr ?
was Mike Tabeling featured ?
he rode some TINY fishes , from the photos I have seen !
…that would be an interesting video , I reckon …is it available world wide , I wonder ? [I have the mags with that contest in them somewhere here …]
cheers
ben
nothing like seeing it straight from the masters’ hands…
thanks for the stoke.
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I just aquired a cool DVD called “It WAS Better back Then”. Basically a Super 8 home movie put onto DVD featuring mainly Florida surf from the early to late 70s. Lots of the east coast hotties from Jeff Crawford on through Greg Loehr and Pat Mulhern among others. Most interesting was the segement of the '74 US Championships which were held at Cape Hatteras. Among those ripping the Lighthouse lefts besides Greg Loehr, Jim Cartland and Rick Rasmussen was Tony Staples, who was riding a Frye single fin fish. Quite long too, about 7 ft., but he was drawing some clean, smooth lines. Skip was shown with the board, but even if you saw Tony riding that board today, I think he’d turn heads with the surfing he was doing. I had read a lot about that meet during that period and it was quite interesting to see Greg’s rather vertical off the lips and some pretty hot cutbacks too. Cartland drew some nice speed lines, not the kind of style I would expect from the east coast and Rick Rasmussen pulled off some nice lip smacks, tubes and cutbacks.
Aloha Foamdust - I witnessed the surfing at the Championships at Cape Hatteras lighthouse that year. Those guys were kings, mostly all goofyfoot, and naturally gifted surfers. I was 18 yrs. old. I’d love to see that DVD.
For those interested…I got the DVD on ebay from a guy on the east coast for $19.95. You can email him at Sandywalk@aol.com
Chip, Rick Rasmussen won the contest against Jim Cartland. The finals were held so late in the afternoon that they had to use the headlights from cars, but it got too dark and were continued the next morning. Mike Tabeling was featured in another segment, but was’nt riding a fish. I thought it was cool to finally see what was happening on the east coast during that period since the focus was mainly on Hawaii and California.
Eastern, was there an East vs. West coast kind of rivalry at the contest? The waves did look quite good. Having grown up in Hawaii, I’ve always been curious about riding waves on the mainland. It seemed at the time that the contest was a turning point of sorts, where the east coast surfers like Rick Rasmussen, Greg Loehr, Jim Cartland and of course Jeff Crawford were being finally being noticed for their surfing talents. Peace…
FD
Aloha Foamdust - It figures you’re a twin fin guy. It all is clearer now. You guys were way ahead of the curve.