your age, your board

General Discussion
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37, 6’2", 210…lessee how many I can remember right now…this is just the current quiver, many, many more have come & gone. The longboards are all single fins, unless I say otherwise, and get the most work.

5’2" old stubbie twin (needs work)

5’11" twin keel fish (self-made)

7’0" peanut (self)

7’2" John Schultze squash thruster

7’6" Dick Keating round pin thruster

7’11" G&S Farrelly stringerless V-bottom (needs major work)

8’0" EPS/epoxy egg (self)

8’0" Stu Kenson mini log thruster

9’6" Patagonia custom 2+1

9’8" Velzy noserider

9’10" Velzy (Phillips) 2+1

9’10" Cobalt/Bob Miller 2+1

10’0" The $143

10’0 Velzy noserider

10’0" balsa sandwich (self)

10’0 Softtop

10’1" Mystic/John Moore noserider

10’1" balsa sandwich (self)

10’1" d-cell sandwich (self)

10’2" EPS/epoxy diamond tail (self)

10’2" balsa sandwich (self)

10’4" Velzy '63 model

12’ wood veneer (self)

12’ Softtop

16’ Eaton paddleboard

think that’s it…

Edit: thanks to Mr. Duck for reminding me about the project boards…

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39 y/o – 7’6" Country Surfboards Nomad w/ futures VF467 + hatchet, 6’8" Country Surfboards twin keel fish. Current favorite: Neumatic surfmat. (blue streak Duckfeet – trying to aquire some UDTs)

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BTW, I remain amused at the difference in temperature perception between right and left coast surfers (although right coasties are starting to copy y’all). On my first trip to Cali in 1969 I found surfers at Huntingdon Pier out on a sunny February day with 70-plus degree air and 60-plus degree (iirc) water temps attired in full rubber and bitching about how unmercifully cold it was. I had to stifle a giggle because at the time those were the conditions when most NJ surfers would consider ditching the neoprene altogether. Doesn’t make one group right and one wrong, but it’s curious.

-Samiam

I do not think that the temperture whine of sourthern california could really hold true for the entire left coast. (remember there is more to the pacific coast than so cal) I fact my friends and I would travel to santa cruz from oregon to get osme warm water hah…

any way I will weigh in for the younger generation of swaylockers at a babyish 28 I also did not start surfing until i was 21 since I am orignally from colorado, and now line in northern ireland…talk about a change of latitude… so what I ride

9’4" velzy

9’2" schuler HP

6’10" schuler thruster

and when the wife is not looking i also will ride her boards

6’6" walden cd

9’2" seven surfboards by bryan bates ( this is an incedable board…proably will have him build one for me when i move back to oregon.)

have a great weekend

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39, almost 40 :wink: Current quiver split between Ventura and L.A.

5’8" Skip Frye Fish - needs restoration

6’ SrPato Fish

6’6" Steve Huerta thruster

6’6" Wilderness hull, stubbie, egg thing…already went through this in another thread

6’10" Yancy Spencer fish

7’2" SrPato single fin double ender - just added Probox sidebites this A.M.

7’6" Becker Speedshape pintail

7’6" SrPato mini-log

7’10" Denny Smith semi-gun

8’ SrPato double ender speed slug

9’ Mobley hull bottom pin tail

9’4" Hap Jacobs 422

9’6" Hap Jacobs 422

9’10 SrPato longboard

10’ SrPato cruiser

Currently working on a 6’4" eps/epoxy fun fish with dcell perimeter stringers.

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47 years old, 5-9" 175. Love the outdoors and walks on the beach seeking like minded woman…Oh, wrong website. The following are my garage boards and are always changing:

5-8 canard quad fish

5-11 twin keel fish(still in progress)

6-0 twin keel fish

6-7 quad

7-3 round pin thruster beer cooler foam

6-0 single fin stubbie

Pro built boards(I have not ridden these since I started making my own:

6-0 Lis fish

7-6 triple stringer Haut thruster

7-4 round pin thruster(Spicket Head)

8-4 Desert Island(What’s his name again?)

9-0 3 finned longboard, triple stringer by Bob Pierson

I think that’s it. Mike

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I just hit the 50 mark and live on southcoast of the UK so need to be prepared for anything including trips. OK here we go :

6’ 1" keel fin fish (with optional 2" half moon centre fin) great travel board

6’ 1" 3 fin bonzer

6’ 3" keel fin fish

6’ 3" circa 1980’s Byrne rocket fish (5 channel bottom)

6’ 9" thruster

6’ 10" thruster

7’ 1" circa early 70’s old school Bilbo semi gun single fin

7’ 9" old school egg

9’ 1" tri-fin longboard

9’ 5" single fin longboard

9’ 6" circa 1960 O’Neil longboard (original from the San Fransico shop)

9’ 9" single fin noserider longboard

I probably ride half of these boards regularly !

Next board to go on the shaping rack is a 6’ 10" ish Quad or twinzer (can’t make my mind up)

Steve

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41 yrs old. Anywhere from 165 to 172 lbs.

Shaped these myself…

6-4 shortboard thruster

6-8 round nose hybrid

7-4 hydrid asymetrical tail

7-11 mini-tank

9-0 2+1 longboard (first board shaped)

9-2 2+1 longboard

9-6 single fin longboard

10-2 canoe paddle hybrid

Shaped by others…

10-6 Munoz Surftech

11’ " "

12’ " "

8-8 Mega Fish

13’ Downwind SUP board

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So this thread has bounced around for a couple of years? Let’s see where I was at back then, June 2004…

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Personally, age 48 with a birthday cake so close I can almost taste it, it’s an 8’3" 2 plus 1 which can ride as a single (bought from a shop where the owner not 4 years ago told me an 8’7" was a “girl’s board”, speaking of change), a 7’10" hybrid which I apparently am saving for the tropics, a mat, and some paipos. 8’7" is the longest board I’ve ever owned; I can’t get interested in things over 9’, and that’s probably related to “what I had my best time on”. Honestly I hardly standup surf at all anymore, as the variety of prone surfcraft allow me the total and slowly vanishing luxury of finding out of the way places. If I had to guess my future 20 years down the road I would think it’s bodysurfing exclusively.

Fast forward to today, March 2006…took that same 8’3" out today for my first standup session in a long, long time. First impressions? How did I ever ride a 6 footer…;-), I wasn’t much warmer in my 3/2 and hood on the 8’3" compared to the mat or the bodyboard or bodysurfing for that matter, and all the pronecraft and bodysurfing in the world doesn’t seem to keep my now 50 year old body in standup surfing “tune”. That must be the ticking of the clock I hear. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get back in tune, how many sessions…but I have to say for the first time in my life the thought of going over 9’ on board size doesn’t fill me with disinterest.

Oneula - the good news about new wetsuits today is that when properly fit they are so much better than even the suits from 5 years ago…more like condoms, ja?

Hey, some of you guys have too many boards! I only kept one from the glory days, a 7’2" William Dennis swallowtail from the early 1970’s. I still have an early Doyle Soft which rains decayed ethaform from the rafters on windy days when the garage door is open…still around mostly because it’s out of the way. I forgot to mention a Rob DiStephano soft kneeboard 2 years ago, which is still in rotation and going strong used as a paipo/bellyboard.

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42y.o.

185lbs

6’1"tall

all boards are 3" thick

a: 7’0" x 18 3/8" roundpin - main ‘its goin off’ board

b: 6’9" x 20 5/8" bonzer5 egg - main ‘its surfable’ board

these are the ‘main’ boards - others (log, 7’6"/8’0"/8’6" guns) are ‘speciallty’ boards for the big and hollow or small and gutless

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age 17

165 lbs.

6’ tall

5’10" twin fin fish

7’0" stepdeck egg

9’ log

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33 yrs old. 6’2" 175#

9’6" single rounded pin all around/noserider

6’10" single fin

5’10" twin fin

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30 yrs old 150 lbs

5’5’’ Pavel Keel Hauler

5’7’’ Mandala Flex Tail

5’9’’ Mandala Canard Qaud

5’11’’ Brian Bulkley roundtail qaud

6’0’’ Brian Bulkley Thruster

6’0’’ Pavel Bonzer

6’2’’ Bill Johnson Thumbtail thruster

6’4’’ Redman WRV thruster

6’6’’ Bill Johnson roundpin

6’6’’ Chris Birch diamond tail egg

6’8’’ Campbell Brothers Bonzer semi gun

7’2’’ Rawson gun

7’10’’ Exotic (Local NY shaper) double ender single fin

9’6’’ Jim Phillips nose rider

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this good thread would be GREAT , if everyone could post at least one photo of the boards they have listed in their quiver …please ? [here’s another …a ‘tails view’ of mine, by the way …]

‘graylocks’ welcomes ‘surfbum’ …

cheers !

ben

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64 years old - ride a 6’2"x 19x 2 3/8 - 6’6"x19x2 7/16 - 7’1"x19x2 1/2 5’8" - 150 lbs. Short boards are easier to carry!

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Thank you!

both chippy and I say say thank you again!

Shortboards AND Old Guys Rule!

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I kinda didn’t want to post . . . but might as well. I’m probably the one with the least surfing experience. And the smallest quantity quiver!

age 26 . . . started surfing in winter 05. Started on a longboard that was borrowed, learned to trim on that, then borrowed a 6’6’ CI Flyer, did what some call a cutback.

I learned to swim when I started college (well I could swim before, but it took me like 10 minutes to go from one end of the pool to the other bad technique :\Þ

Current quiver is 6’2 swallow tail Bill Johnson shapes (I should stop surfing it, its a collectors item, but forget about it it’s a mainstay in my quiver).

I have a 6’2 CI MBM. That is the closest to a magic board for me. It was the first board I could pull a roundhouse on.

I also have 6’2 CI flyer, I scored both that and the MBM at pre black Monday prices, this is going to my small wave ‘equaliser’ board.

I could potentially score a) 6’2 CI quad and b) a 6’0 pavel retro shortboard, but negotiations are currently in effect. But those will be around in fall. Also I could borrow a harbour SR 7’6 ( a nice ride) but it isn’t always available.

Thats it. The rest of my quiver I’m going to build.

I’m starting pick up on surfing, and have been doing it solo, watching people, so I bought a few videos (plus working on getting a pc to pull videos off surf sites ). Never been shacked, haven’t had a 10 second ride, never been at breaks outside of SD, so lots of fun things to do.

As for age, its nuthing but a number. Why? Here’s a little story hiss boo ‘aw not another one hiro!’ I paddled out at swamis at tender age of 4 mo’s. I could barely trim. I scoped out s****'s (break in in north county, next to a Indian building and VERY crowded) . Surprise there was a few crowds, and I paddled out. For some reason the crowed tripled by the time I got at the main peak. Watched people catch waves. A outside set bursted and I paddled, and the curl broke to the right of me a walled up right, Some gray haired guy paddled on a orange, purple and pink shortboard, caught a wave bottom turned and raced up the face at me, then over the lip and boosted an air over me.

Corky Carroll had told me I was to old to do airs, but this gray haired guy was tearing the @#! outta the waves. After an hour or so, I was in position, no one was paddling, and I caught one, trimmed down, but the wave out ran me (I didn’t learn about scooting forward to midline yet), when the gray haired guy paddled back out he just nodded at me.

Nothing was said but later I look back and realized Corky was wrong, the gray haired guy was right. Looking at Kelly Slater and Tom Curren, they still rip. It is your choice.

Someone gave props (proper recognition) to Jim Phillips. Jim P is cool and very helpful. Thanks man!

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Age: 15

Boards: 6’0" thruster

         6'8" single-fin egg 

         7'0" swallow-tail 

         9'2" single-fin noserider 

         9'6" cruser 

         10'0" log
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there’s lots of old guys and big boards here eh ? nice to see a few of you ride thrusters in the 5’10- 6’2 range .what , are most peple here fat , then ? is that why your riding such huge boards,

or is ‘graylocks’[good one Chip] "old board design forum’’ city? Bert, greg loehr, speedneedle-what do you guys ride I wunder? and where is bill barnfield, he must have a truster or two in his quiver surely.

cecil

19yo , 5’7, it’s 6’ x 18" x 2 1/4" thrusters for me

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thanks chip,

here is my 7’ egg that Ryan Gerard shaped… sick!

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A related question. Do the over-50’s in this thread make a habit of discussing/disclosing their age when in the lineup? I used to do that. About a year after I started surfing again (I was essentially out of it for ~15 years; stated up again about 6 years ago), I was out on a decent 4-5’ day, with only two mid-twenty-something guys who were surfing together for company. They struck up a conversation that eventually led to a discussion of age and surfing history. They seemed surprised at my age. Next thing I know, I’m getting the “Here, take this wave, sir, I can catch another…” treatment. I nearly barfed on my board. Embarrassing. Now, I’m as quick as the next guy to bitch about being dropped in on by the local shop gremmies, but all I really want is standard surfing ettiquette and a fair shot at waves. I actually would have liked to think I was being had, but these guys seemed to be perfectly serious. I haven’t disclosed my age to strangers in a line-up since. If asked, I say “I’ve been around a while…”

-Samiam