My very first paddle out into the lineup....
...was on this board.
She belongs to the v-man's dad. He picked her up in the early 80's. She's patiently awaiting the v-man...whenever he's ready.
Roads End...fall...1990.
Didn't catch anything.
Didn't know what the hell I was doing.
Didn't care.
I was hooked.
She belongs to the v-man's dad. He picked her up in the early 80's. She's patiently awaiting the v-man...whenever he's ready.
Roads End...fall...1990.
Didn't catch anything.
Didn't know what the hell I was doing.
Didn't care.
I was hooked.
8 comments:
Oh dear - downhill all the way since then.
You should take it out again - looks like fun! (A design classic on the deck no doubt!)
I have a couple boards that the kids ride that I have kept for many years. It's nice to keep 'em in the family, passing along the stoke.
looks like the modern take on the fish but with sqaure tail. oops, did I just say the modern fish is an 80's board with a swallow tail?
The Colonel is impressed that you still have that old sled. My boards never seem to make it out to pasture. They all just seem to get snapped eventually. However, I do recall one of my bifurcated Mike Locatellis wound up bolted to the top of a skateboard back in the late 80's. Not a bad way to keep the stoke going when you're 16....and damn, I think Sector 9 just might owe me some money.
That's quite a short board for your first paddle out. Was somebody having a laugh at your expense?
Ras I was thinking the same thing. She looks a lot like The Bulgarian Whore, stinks wave riding vehicle which was his first board from maybe the same era but I think even a little older. Minus a fin though...so yeah. I cant tell in the pics, are the fins glassed on?
oh dad...
Pen - she's a great Oregon board...fat & floaty.
patch - the v-man thinks it's pretty cool.
ras - huh?
colonel - she was great for skurfing.
gazelle - perhaps...?
J - fins are not glassed on.
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