Just spent an enjoyable hour looking at your well-done blog (which I found from a link from "Board Riding Scooter Trash" outta Dunedin, NZ).
Never got into thrusters and can't say I hold 80s graphics dear, but I appreciate the trip down memory lane and your enthusiasm is infectious.
I found an Eberly lightning bolt a few years ago at a second hand store here in San Francisco, which I bought for 75$. I surfed it enough to satisfy my memories about single fins (I'm in love with my Steve Brom fishes). I had some chump scold me for actually riding it and not locking it in a climate-controlled case or something ("Do you even realize what you HAVE?"). One thing I like about your collection is that you buy them to ride them! Here here!
The 82 Stubbies was the pinicle of inovation period surfing and surfboard design. The heats included March Richards on his own twin fin design, Cheyne Horan (winning) on a Geoff McCoy Laser Zap design with Ben Lexan designed winged Star fin, Rabbit Barthlemow on a channel bottom rounded pin tail Hot Stuff, Dane Kealoa on a T&C twin fin and Simon Anderson on his new 3 fin thruster design. Never before or since has there been such a variety of surfboard design in one place.
Innovation Period- Definition.
The innovation period of surfboard design has also been described as 'T2'. Meaning the second transition period, the first transition period of surfboard design was from late 60's to the early 70's, or short board revolution, where boards went from long boards (10') to short boards (6'), an exciting time for the likes of Nat Young and Bob Mc Tavish, who were sawing a foot off their boards at a time. The second transition period was from the late 70's to the early 80's when surf boards went from 1 fin to 3 fins and beyond.
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Just spent an enjoyable hour looking at your well-done blog (which I found from a link from "Board Riding Scooter Trash" outta Dunedin, NZ).
Never got into thrusters and can't say I hold 80s graphics dear, but I appreciate the trip down memory lane and your enthusiasm is infectious.
I found an Eberly lightning bolt a few years ago at a second hand store here in San Francisco, which I bought for 75$. I surfed it enough to satisfy my memories about single fins (I'm in love with my Steve Brom fishes). I had some chump scold me for actually riding it and not locking it in a climate-controlled case or something ("Do you even realize what you HAVE?"). One thing I like about your collection is that you buy them to ride them! Here here!
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