What defines a "Log"
Is it the weight, 20Kgs + ?
The age, pre 1967 ?
The fin, "D" only or is the early Green'o ok?
Intersesting question, im keen to know too. I resisted the urge to add a joke, though it was quite hard.
Heavy, old-school longboard.
I dropped a nice log this morning after a cup of coffee. The act of dropping a log is also known as “Laying Cable” in some areas.
Since this is Swaylocks I could also say that a Log is an old heavy longboard.
L M A O ! ! !
First thing I thought of !!
My definition of a log is an old longboard that, when sliding out of the back of your pickup going around a corner and tumbling across the street, has no real damage other than a scrape of two. That definition is confirmed if suspected log takes out a coupla kooks on the corner. Not that any of this really happened.
I don’t know what this has to do with surfboards but THAT is a log!
Missed this the first time. I’m American,so I had to do the math on your weight figure. 20kgs = 44 lbs…correct? Old 60s vintage longboards did not weigh 44 lbs. Most were under 30, with 26 to 28 being typical. When I hear people talk about their old “50 lb longboard” I write them off as clueless.
Howzit Sammy,I weighed all my boards from that era and even 50's and they seemed to weigh between 33 LBS and 37 LBS. That was not counting the very last longboad which was a 9'6" Chuck Dent was made just before the smaller boards came on the scene and it was a Chuck Dent and it weighed just abound 29 LBS . I would say that other than the Dent board they were logs to me. The one thing was the walk into tresles and afew other places where you wore a hole in your head from carrying it on the head . Aloha,Kokua
Those numbers don’t seem right, to me. I have weighed a number of 60s boards using a commercial fish scale and only a couple clocked in over 30 lbs. One in particular is the '65 Hobie I own, and it is a real boat. 10’2", with very thick rails, big D fin, etc. I’ve weighed every kind of vintage longboard, just about, and 28 lbs seems to be about average.
As I said…I used a commercial scale and those have to be accurate. Do you recall what method you used?