For those who don't frequent Surfline all the time. I thought this was a pretty good read...Especially for the Nor'easterners. Any of you guys have/or have had a Bunger Shape? http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/shapers-alley-new-york_123619/
Thanks for the post dude, nice to see some love coming to NY. If only the waves looked like that more often. They've got a typo on Faktion's profile ('Fakiton'!? Surfline editors, wake up). Anyway ... I have a 7'3 Bunger funboard that I absolutely love on the smaller and lined up days. My first board was an old Phoenix I picked up, shaped by Jim 'Squeak' Saunders. When picking up supplies to fix it, at Bunger Sayville, they gave me his phone number. Dude called be back a few weeks later and we chatted about the board, a bit of shaping history, etc. Stand up guy! I still ride that board, thing is indestructible. Don't think I could ever part with it. This old Bunger came up on craigslist recently .... 1975. It would make an awesome restoration project. http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/spo/4917742852.html
"Thanks for the post dude, nice to see some love coming to NY. If only the waves looked like that more often." After surfing all these years on the East Coast, I have never surfed the Empire State (OC to S. FL only). I did not realize the history going back to the early 60s on the core shaping crew. Is your Bunger a classic or maybe shaped by the son (Tommy?)? Whalerus...can I get the dims on that for my next custom?
