1st Lis Fish, owned it for about a year before it was stolen (along with my wetsuite) from my back yard while I was living in a black ghetto. That board would be worth $$$$ now.
^^^ Similar story here... 1st MR twin. A friend "borrowed" it, the properely tyed leashe knotte broke, and it ended up in the rocks at Trenton beach in CM. I fixed it up and rode it for about another year... then ended up trading it for a new board, just because it didn't look new anymore. Big Mistake. To add to this story... I traded it in for another MR, but built by G&S, and it was a first generation quad. And it sucked. All it could do was go straight... tracked like hell. That's why the quad design died... they hadn't figured out the layout, cant and toe... that went with the rockers, rails, foils and planshapes of the time. They just didn't work. Meanwhile... thrusters were taking off, and with great results. My surfing grew by giant leaps going from a single to a twin, then bogged down going to a quad... while everybody else who jumped on thrusters were revolutionizing surfing.
wow....I'm seeing a pattern here... Late 1970s, Doug Haut twin fin, my first board. I'm guessing it was about a 5'6" First summer living in Ocean City Maryland. It seemed like everyday was flat, flatter and flattest. My roommates didn't surf but skated the empty downtown streets at night. Went into Sundancer Surf Shop and traded it straight up for a new skateboard.
My cousin gave me a 1968 Hansen Longboard. It was around 1972 or 73. I was too young to realize that no one was riding them anymore. Maybe that's why all the older guys threw my sh!t in the water back then.
David Nuuhiwa fish first new board after several used boards. I loved that board and rode it into the ground..
This isn't exactly my most ridden board. But it has the coolest story. The first surf flick i ever saw as a kid was shelter. And i saw donavon f ride the shelter bonzer. At the time i didn't know what a bonzer was but i did know that board was something different. Flash forward to a year or two ago. I've been checking out bonzers and really wanted to try the shelter bonzer. Then i saw a post on the forum..shelter bonzer for sale. Guy was from RI, but shot him a PM anyway. Didn't expect to get it. Turns out the guy had a grandma or something on LI and would be coming down, so i could actually get this thing. As the thread went on, someone posted a really cool story from another forum about this guy. It's better just for you guys to read it...here's the original thread. The link to the story i mentioned is on page 2 http://www.swellinfo.com/forum/show...onzer-mini-gun-300-!&highlight=Shelter+bonzer I'm not religious or nothing. But i am spiritual. This was one of the coolest experiences i ever had. If you read the thread, he says energy transfered. We were texting and I'm telling you, it was the strangest feeling. I was literally getting goosebumps. Saying energy transfered was not a joke. Such good vibes. It's hard to explain and i probably sound crazy. But if you know about the campbell brothers and belive in that "energy", you'll understand. So i got the board. Guy was awesome. Boards sick. A bit bigger for me but I'm not afraid of a bigger board so it works. When I'm old and have kids that surf (hopefully) I'm going to give em this board and tell the story about it. Serious life lessons were learned/verified that day. That's what being a surfer is about. Sharing stoke. Good vibes. Acts of kindness. You all will probably think I'm crazy but the whole thing was really special to me. Especially considering the board was something i saw in a video and instantly knew it was special.
6' 6' just add water shaped by Terry Martin. Broken in half twice. Flew off the rack on Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel. Never saw her again.
My all time favorite was my linden, 6'2" back in the late 80's. Road it till it was destroyed. Currently that I own, my vernor silver bullet was my favorite but now has been replaced by my new favorite Channel Islands pod mod. Vernor is now collecting dust, tho may have to pull it back out.
Cool story Bassmon. I had a 6'8 Rawson that I bought off the rack at Hawaiian South Shore surf shop in about 1998. Rode that board, literally, around the world. Finally, on my move from Monterey to VB in 2009 the movers stole it, along with my entire quiver (including a 7'4 Brewer, and an 8'6 Rusty Gun shaped for Tailor Knox that I rode my one and only wave at Waimea on). I got fully reimbursed for the loss monetarily, and bought a 6'10 Rawson Tufflite from Real Watersports on Hatteras that I've been riding now for about 7 years, but it's just not the same.
No... at least not to my knowledge. He learned to shape as a teenager, and from that point on always shaped his own boards. I know he worked with Lightning Bolt at one point, because for years he rode boards with the logo on them. Later he teamed up with Gordon and Smith, I'm assuming to go into mass production.
6'0" Firewire Dominator. The thing is 7 years old now, and still holds-up perfectly. Yeah, I know, it's a soulless Thai clone, but I don't give a shi'ite.
8'6" Ricky Carroll HPLB. It was my first board and still my favorite. Bought it 6 years ago for $200 off E-bay. It was ridden once. Guy was going through a divorce and had no place to store it. It happened to be in Greensboro, NC... 200 miles from the ocean but 20 miles from my land locked ass. My sons went and picked it up for me to make sure it wasn't a scam. Guy was super cool to my kids; talked to them about surfing and making good decisions about enjoying life and not getting tied down too early. It was way too much boart for me at the time. I hadn't even properly stood up on a boart... I didn't even know I got a good deal until I did some research. Now I got a couple of RC's friends and business associates as my friends on FB. Small world...
