What were your first and second board?

General Discussion
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Hey all,
My first real board was a 7 ft minimal. Then I moved down to a shorter 6’4" board. But I was 17 at the time. What are your or your child’s experiences??
There does not seem to be a market for “second boards” where I live. When you can paddle out, catch a wave, go down the line… And want to move to your second board for beach breaks as a normal sized kid, what do you need to learn?
Curious to hear your experiences.
Cheers to all
Wouter

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Oh wow,  my first Real fibreglass board that I bought was a HOT ROC in Sydney when I was 12, two shades of lime green , 7’4" pintail fixed single fin. I think it cost $35 dollars but it was almost new. No leg rope plug and came with a block of strawberry wax and a board cover. I pretty much started shaping from then on, stripping down a longboard and glassed my first shaped board with a bed sheet.

The only second board I can remember buying is an ex-pro Aloha from Brookvale, fixed fins, sanded finish, Pearl white, shaped by Greg Clough. I still dream of how beautiful that board was.

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can’t remember 2nd, but the first was a short board thruster, sprayed all black. My mate broke his leg on it. woops, i was 16

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My first board was an 8’ Jacobs single fin with colored foam (green). I didn’t go down in size for my second board. It was an 11’ Greg Noll Tandem that I bought, or I sould say my Father bought for me, from his shop on PCH and Pier Ave. in Hermosa Beach in 1964/65. I was a skinny little 120 lb. 15 year old and could catch a rowboat wake on that thing. Good times.

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My first surfboard, born of economic necessity, was a board that I made.       Balsa, 10 feet long, and about 40 pounds.       Cost was just under forty dollars.       A ‘‘real’’ surfboard, a HOBIE, or a VELZY & JACOBS, was seventy five dollars at that time.      As an economic yardstick, gasoline was 25 cents per gallon!     I had no template.      I hand drew the outline on the glued up blank.      Handsaw, Jackplane, Blockplane, and Drawknife, were the only tools available to me.       I was proud of the finished board, though looking back, it was a real horror.      Terribly difficult to ride, even more difficult to turn.     I sold it, for $45 dollars, added another forty dollars, and bought my first REAL surfboard.     Custom shaped by Wayne Land, a ‘‘Burland’’ balsa Pig.      I was able to watch every step in it’s creation.      The board was 9’ 3’’ x 21’'.     I never knew the weight.      Probably around 28 pounds.      That board was state of the art, in 1958.      Wayne was a ‘‘regular’’ at WindanSea, and most of the WindanSea crew were riding Burland surfboards.     Watching Wayne shape my board was the first time I’d seen a Skil 100 in use.      The new price of one, in 1958, was an out of reach $125 dollars!       But, I was able to rent one for five dollars per day, when I shaped my next surfboard.      That is the short version of what became a lifelong involvement for me.      Still at it.

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thats the real deal right there.

Your very fortunate to have lived the life you have… todays world is up shit creek.

cheers

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My first board was a Velzy/Jacops balsa board. $30.00 hard earned paper route money. Guys were sellling off the wooden ones and going to some guy named Sweet to get this new foam type boards. Next board was a G&S foam one

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My first board was a Do Over.  I thought it was a Gordan & Smith.  By the time I took the sander to it and took off a few layers of pigmented resin I realized it had several incarnations before.  From there to a Morey-Pope and several borrowed boards.  Most notably a three stringer Tom Hale.  Then in 68 or 69 I bought a “Sufrboard Kit” from Dave Sweet.  7’ 6 ". Rounded pin.  Single fin and  Waveset box.

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First board was a 6’4 custom by Geoff Horner in DeeWhy, NSW.

Sick board, will always regret not having taken it with me when I moved to the US.

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brand new 6’3" Mike Tabeling single fin with single wings on the tail. light blue on the bottom and yellow on the deck. I really wish I still had that board. next board was a Rainbow twin fin that I wasn’t too crazy about so I quickly got rid of it and bought a slightly used 5’6" G&S twin fin that I called a pig shape. really wide board with a good deal of foam and plenty of float for a 6’2" 165 pound skinny kid. I loved that board.

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8’9" red paneled Con pin tail with fat full rails and a big wood D fin that protruded past the tail and a 3" balsa stringer. Pretty narrow board. Rode that board at PV cove, good memories.

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my first “board” was an air mat with rope handles to hang onto… the first “real” one was a Gordon & Smith…