Tuflite

While doing some cleaning I came across some old Windsurfing brochures from the early 80’s. They were from a company called Meritex (Oakland, CA) that offered computer shaped eps blanks and board kits. What is interesting is that they had given the name Tuflite to their high density foam skinned EPS blanks. This was before Surftech when R. French was doing business as Seatrend. Does anyone know any of the history related to this? Was this a trademark that Meritex had and sold to Surftech or ??? What’s also interesting is that they (Meritex) were computer shaping blanks way back then. Here is the logo and description from their brochure.

Dave_D

Interesting

Another:

Dave

Could have had something to do with Mr. French or he has a good memory and liked the name. And I thought Randy was being original.

BTW some of the SC guys in the 70’s used to rip off the ski industry for marketing ideas. Ever look twice at some of the Overlin stuff?