**** Brewer Surfboard from late 70s with odd logo

Hmmm... Cock Brewer?

I've never seen a single fin with wings before.

 

D1ck Brewer is an historical figure in the world of shaping, having started early 60's. He taught guys like Gerry Lopez and others to make boards, etc. That board is a keeper. I don't know if Brewer is still alive, but you have a board worth holding on to.

Read this: http://encyclopediaofsurfing.com/entries/brewer-****

 

Wingers were pretty common in the 70s plus the winged stingers that Ben Aipa came out with around 74 was very popular design that a lot of surfboard companies started building

 

Hes made like 80,000 boards

 

I've seen a lot of Brewers before, but I've never seen that logo. Definitely more research.

Should have Brewer's handwritten signature along the stringer somewhere. If it does, see if you can pull up his signature online and see if it's a match. FWIW, I've seen fake shapes before. Example: somebody on CL is selling an early 80's Pavel keel fish as a late 60's Lis Fish because it has his name stenciled on it.

If it's a match, it'll be worth something and most likely climb in value. If not, looks like a great wall hanger.

 

That's not a brewer man sorry. There will be no mistaking a brewer.

 

He was full on with Plumaria in 97 and his own logo **** brewer. Just call the factory if your truly interested in finding out about your board it's not like you're trying to contact Beyoncé.

 

Not completely sure but Brewer might have sold his decal for sticks to be produced in other glass shops. Pretty sure Gary Linden built quite a few in O-side in the 80's? We have an early eighties quad w/ a Brewer logo shaped by GL.

 

As JKLsurfs stated Double "wingers" fad hit the scene around 73/74 on "pins" and "swallow tails" even a few with quad wingers too, they were fragile not worth the extra bite. Boards of that early 70 era increased in length from the shorter twin fin/fish designs to longer (6'10" - 8' 4") with narrow tails with wings.

Their are 2 web sites dedicated to Surf board Logo's. The best site can't find the link so maybe some one else might know it/have it but lists the running changes of all the surf board manufactures and Shapers Logo's so helpful when buying a Classic surf board to avoid a fake if logo doesn't match.

http://surfcrazy.com/stanleys/html/logos.html

 

The first board I ever built was a rounded pin single fin with wings, just like that. Green resin tint bottom, clear deck, marine ply glassed on fin. Mine had a deep double concave through the tail, almost like a Bonzer bottom, but no runners. It was basically a knock-off of a Dan Heritage model.

So yea... they were popular for a time back in the late 70s. The "shortboard revolution" proper had ended years before, and shapers were finally figuring out how to make boards in the 6'-7' range work fairly well. A lot of that had to do with rockers and rail design. The fish and twin fins had caught on by then, as did the Bonzer, but guys still riding regular single fins were playing with all kinds of wings and bumps in the rail line. Remember "stingers"? Double wing pins?

 

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