http://www.rockaway.com/online/online/title.php?ItemID=23557
Anyone ever seen this logo before or heard of the shop that sold it?
150k buys a lot of good vibrations !!
However, in the above case, it buys a POS. Even in the context of when the board was made, it was not a very good board. At any garage sale, in the San Fernando Valley, that’s a fifty dollar beater. But, as Balsa Bill says, it is interesting.
High Dollar. But No Doubt! Cha-Ching!
Looks like an early 60s popout, to me. But, the collector market for it won’t likely be among surfers. Music fans will be the target of the sale and it could be considered a cross collectible. The asking price seems mighty high given the current state of the collectibles market, in general.
If that was Dennis Wilson’s personal board, it just adds to my impression that he didn’t really surf. I’ve seen some home movie clips of him and he didn’t look like he knew what he was doing. Not bashing the guy. Just stating an opinion. I have always been a big beach Boys fan. In fact, I still have my original mono copies of the two albums that board was featured on.
Well he wasn’t very fleet-a-foot. After a couple of shots he slipped on the deck while cross-stepping and went overboard in Marina Del Rey. Bummed Christine Mcphie out.
I was always curious about this board. The logo isn’t visable on any of the album covers and now that I see the logo I’m still baffled since I’ve never heard of it before.
The first time I saw the Surfin’ Safari album I thought, “One board and 5 guys?”
As Sammy and Bill T. say it’s probably a pop out. But who made it? The only pop out I know of that was a pintail was the Velzy made by Bohemian (they also made the Keokis, plug shaped by George Downing). The other pop out companies were Dextra, Titan Plastics and Ventura International Plastics. I don’t remember seeing a pintail from any one of them.
This may indeed be the 9’1 Velzy pop out with a different label It does look similar. The Velzy looks like it has a sharper pin. Although it could be the angle of the photo. If it wasn’t a mat blank then it could have been modified but most pop outs were mat blanks. Also this board has a stringer visable on the top and the bottom. Popouts, if they had stringers, were routed. Sometimes only on the top and sometimes on the bottom too.
http://www.hawaiiansurfauction.com/auction-catalog/item1.html
According to the Stebbins book, the board was borrowed from someone’s sister. This is the first I ever heard of it being Dennis’ board.
According to Bruce Johnston who joined the BB’s in 1965, Dennis usually rode a knee board when they surfed together.
Dennis also had a 16mm Arriflex and took surf movies.
Bruce was and is the surfer in the group. Still surfs, lives at Hammond’s Reef and is on the advisory board of Surfrider.
I knew Dennis and although he talked about surfing a lot, I never saw him surf.
When they did the video for “Do It Again” which is on Youtube but with a different song, they all went up to the ranch. I’ve heard the story from both Corky, who did the surfing in the video and Bruce. Bruce says that McCartney was supposed to be the clerk in the scene they filmed in the Santa Monica Hobie Shop. He was staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel but got called back to England the day before the shoot.
As far as the ranch sequence Bruce says it was a typical Hollywood deal. By the time they got to the ranch it was all blown out and they used stock footage for most of the surfing. There are a couple of shots of Corky. Corky told me that Dennis ordered a board from him when they did the shoot. He was working for Hobie at the time. He delivered it a few weeks later.