I know that there are a lot of famous surfboards out there. But...mine has been in many stories and is very identifiable. Watch this video and tell me what you think.
…hello,
all the stuff looks like a nice adventure
but I have some questions:
-where s the waves?
-what this is related to surfing?
-why choose a surfboard and not a wakeboard?, the board is not performing as a surfboard…
-why not carefully take care of the board?
that board suffered from very bad treatment…
so you say that you cross the Atlantic wakeboarding?
thanks
I have to agree with everything reverb said.
Cool adventure, bad board abuse.
Originally the board was found in the trash, broken in half. I put it back together and used it, one of about 10 boards. It soon became my favorite. 8 foot fun shape. Florida (mainly small waves and I am 52) anyway. I took it on the trip for two reasons, first it the conditions were right, I was going to run off the deck of the flats boat into some big surf (why?-for fun) I also brought it to take pictures of the boat in front of an iceberg. I never really expected to see an iceberg, but if I did, I wanted it for the cover of the book that I was going to write,(long story, my house burnt down and the book was distroyed, 350 hours of writing, will resume at a later date). The wake-board thing was sorta of a spur of the moment thing and it seems to be what a lot of the media always talks about.
I guess you saw some of the helecopter 10 to 12 foot swells.
No, I did not cross the Atlantic wakeboarding. We were on a world record boat trip. "Smallest power boat to cross the Atlantic." The board is in a lot of pictures around the world and on television a lot. Very identifable, making it famous.
A show of hands please…
Who of you here on this, the premier international surfboard design forum, have ever seen that self-described “world’s most famous surfboard”…???..
I thought only Roy would make a claim like that…
I liked seeing the Cape Surf sticker. I used to live down the street from the shop in Cape Canaveral. Brought back memories.
While I applaud the adventure and the journey, I agree with Paul... I don't recall seeing that board.
On the other hand, while I'm not sure I could identify it if I saw it in person, this board comes to mind as pretty famous:
I’m with JohnMellor on this one. I have never seen this so-called “famous” board. Don’t care if I ever do, to be frank. The fact that it’s a funshape tells me all I need to know. I will refrain from further comments on that.
Noll’s board is certainly one of the more recognizable sticks among people who actually surf.
Probably need more than 148 youtube hits to be the worlds most popular surfboard. Maybe worlds most popular beater that isn't used as a surfboard?
I watched the video. I would hardly call that thing a “surfboard”.
First… it’s a funshape, so it began its life as a joke.
2nd…It is a piece of junk, now. So whatever resemblance to a surfboard it used to possess is long gone.
Now guys...play nice. If he want's to call it the worlds most famous surfboard, he can.
I enjoyed seeing the flats boat all top heavy with that T-Top and junk on top, slapping around in 10 ft washing machine surf......no wonder the CG was close by.
So are you the same guys that were looking for sponsors for this trip, or is this different adventure. If so I got a few questions.
1) did you do it on one tank of fuel,.. cook, eat, sleep, kill seals, on that boat the entire time?....LIKE VIKING WARRIORS!!! Or did you have a mothership that passed off cold beer and Hamburgers?
Looked like a nifty adventure, and your board is "special"
I thought this was the most famous surfboard. Oh well…
Sorry, not even close. Next.
It looked like this after Noll added some comp stripes to hide the stress cracks it suffered on that day.
Yes, I am one of the two brothers who when on the trip. And yes it was a tough battle getting funding. We were funded 8 days before departure. It was no where near enough money to do the trip right. Anyway, there was no mother ship. We were unescorted. We reported to the Coast Guard on there request. The video from the helecopter was given to us by them. They were in route back to the Shetland Islands and swung wide to check on us. They flew over for about 5 minutes.
We stoped along the way in the major cities. A lot of the trip was within a hundred miles of shore. Our longest crossing was only 625 miles, from Canada to Greenland, where we turned a 2 and a half day into a 6 day trip because of strong winds, current, and up to 9 foot waves, all going against us. The water temp was about 35 degrees with a lot of icebergs. We could carry 347 gallons of gasoline. Getting fuel was extremely hard, since gasoline along the water outside of the United States was almost non-existing. We had to carry 10 5-gallon jerry cans and bum rides to the gas station. In some of the countries, it is against the law to have in your possession more than 2 jerry cans at one time. Food was almost usually from grocery stores, either dry or canned.
Did you check out the youtube video "You'll Get Swamped"? It is the condensed version of the whole trip with some captions. Bob
Were you guys expecting the Coasties to come and save your asses if you got in trouble out there?
We knew we would be on our own. We never expected anyone to come and help us; and nobody ever did. The coast guard wanted to know our where-a-bouts. Most of the coast guard guys that we met were great guys, in fact I don't think we met any that didn't find our trip interesting. We spent two nights on a cutter in Canada, one night at a office in Scotland.
There is some footage where we were in Gale force winds (40 to 60 mph) at night and we motored into a unfinished big boat harbour in Scotland (No wave break, so it was like a washing machine in there). We called in our location to try to locate a safe harbour and when they found out where we were, they came to check on us. Saw the size of our boat and wanted to tow us to a safe harbour, but we wouldn't let them put a rope on our boat (would have been an end to our mileage record), no body is allowed to assist us, for the world record. We did follow them into the next harbour, not too far. A small piece of the footage is on "You'll Get Swamped" youtube.com There was a Discovery camera man on their boat video taping us for a Disc show called "Life Boat Rescues" I also video taped their boat.
Bob Brown
Oh, Kevin from the surf shop "Cape Fear" in Cape Canaveral donated a couple of rash guards, surfboard bag (we slept inside it on the boat almost every night during the 76 days) and some T-shirts.
The trip was a fund raiser for Wounded Hero Foundations and without people like Kevin, we would have had a much tougher trip.
Bob Brown
Did you catch any of those big bad ass 800 lb bluefin tuna up there? I'd love to see you stick a gaff or two and pull that in your boat. You'd have to hollow it out and sleep inside it like a bunch of prarrie dogs. Everybody eatting sushi for 5 months etc.
Is that boat flat bottom. It looks like it was a horrible ride.
I blew it big time. We left Boston, heading for Halifax Nova Scotia (450 miles), and it was late, by the time we arrived in the fishing grounds, it was after dark. We were planning on trolling for a tuna. Thinking it would make a good video, I suggested that we wait till morning. I had no idea that the Tuna were only plentiful in the area of last night. We trolled and struck out. We did manage to catch some fish (9 or 11 can't remember, but they were snaper and grouper) off of Miami and about 15 strange looking fish off of Canada. We fished for Cod, but struck out (had to wait for the season to open and we were always in a super hurry to head out, because of media stops and we had so many miles to go. Hurricane Bill was stirring and Hurricane Dennis followed. (long story) Bob Brown