Your first board

mine is a 7'2" "Hawaiin Style" pin tail gun. Bought it off of Craig's list .... a nice beige/tan/yellow color now but still ride it. It's a really fun board when it's more of a longboard wave but want something that turns quicker. Still has great float since I'm only about 150-160 lb.

 

Challenger Eastern single fin... the thing was a dog. Traded it in for my second board... an MR twin. My surfing grew exponentially in one year.

 

Guessing you don't still have the MR Twin. MANNNNN how cool would that be.

 

5'8" Ronnie Mellot shaped Twin-fin, circa ~1982

 

7'6" Vector funshape - traded a TV set for it - turned out to be a good move in two ways.

 

6'2" G Wilson fish! found it used at vertical urge bought it during the winter and not having a wetsuit at the time had to stare at it for months before we got some warm water. it's now in the new hanover hospital pediatric wing as part of a wall

 

Challenger round pin/single fin, I paid way too much for at a pawn shop. It was a couple feet taller than me with a ton of volume - actually a pretty good board for me, considering how weak the "waves" on the gulf are. Our family used to spend a month of every summer on the beach near alabama point. I had a ton of sub-tropical fun on that board, angling long glides on waves that were usually about 1/2 foot high...never even did a turn on it. Grom size has it's perks.

I bought my second board on a trip to see my aunt out in Los Angeles. It was a used Reardon twin with a center "star system" box (thrusters were rare, at the time) and a fantastic taped off "burst" airbrush. Taped it in a blanket, flew home to the gulf with it (airlines let you do sh*t like that back then), quickly outgrew it, but kept riding it (couldn't afford another) and wondered why it kept bogging.