Wayne goes to Texas.

Barrett from Texas wrote-
Dude, I have been tearing up the internet trying to find some information about a board I picked up recently.
It says "Wayne Lynch Design", and "Rip Curl". From the research I've done it seems to be from the late 70's or early 80's. It's not signed by anyone, and the dimensions aren't listed on it, but it's around 5 11. It's a twin fin.
Thank you so much! Any info you can give is much appreciated. I'm constantly cross-eyed from all the time I've spent looking for info.

Thanks!

Hey Barrett,
Judging by the Clarke Foam decal we can safley say it was made in the States and not at Rip Curl in Torquay, Australia. Judging by the outline and single fly swallow tail its from 1979 or 1980. That means it was shaped by Bill Shrosbree at Moonlight Glassing and probably airbrushed by Peter St Pierre!
I hope that makes your eyes feel better.

Boardcollector- we are here to help.

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One of the worlds most instantly recognizable boards...

80's U.S Rip Curl thruster....

I'm so stoked to have gotten my hands on this board from the States.

I love the early 80's 3 fin, single fly, wide rounded square tail set up. My guess is its one of the first batch of US thrusters, along side the Nectar thrusters Simon Anderson was doing. Plus its in such amazing condition.

I love Wayne Lynch, who has always been one of my biggest surfing influences, especially during the 80's when he was living in a Tee Pee and only wearing all black wetsuits at the height of the flouro epidemic.

I love Surfy Surfy and the work of the guys at Moonlight Glassing and I'm so stoked to own an original Bill Shrosbree hand shape with airbrush by Peter St Pierre!

I love that its an 80's RIP CURL surfboard, because speaking from personal experience, I'm pretty sure that although RIP CURL made some beautiful surfboards in Torquay in the 70's they did not make a single RIP CURL surfboard in Australia in the 80's, as they were busy putting all their efforts into making pastel coloured poly cotton fleecy tracksuit pants out of China. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I love that my mate Tim in Hawaii found a similar board too!

In a nice footnote John from New York has sent me a pic of his matching Wayne Lynch Moonlight glassing thruster with similar Peter St Pierre spray.

Gold wanted!

Force Nine Roach Aproach thruster- GOLD
Emerald Micheal Mackie thruster- GOLD
etc.......

Space junk.

I was listening to an NPR interview with a space archaeologist. She has charted every man made object launched into space since Sputnik and collects and identifies pieces of charred space junk when it falls to earth.
I got me thinking about surfboard shaping archeology. Imagine charting the the development and history of every shaper and surfboard design and tracing them back to their common ancestors. Like how Simon Anderson and Terry Fitzgerald shaped for Shane before going out on their own and how Greg Webber shaped under the tutelage of Fitz at HB before starting Webber. How on the surfboard below he had even developed his own 'W' logo while at HB that he latter used on Webbers.
John adds-
Actually, Greg was with HB aprox a year, 82/83, before he started INSIGHT with Rodney Darlberg, 83/84. The "W" logo was developed before HB around 78/79 (maybe earlier), designed by his mother Diana from a photo of brother John (likley taken by Greg) at Nielson Park (inner Sydney Harbour break), inspired by US SURFER mag 1969 v10#2.




Well as it turns out I'm not alone. The good folk at Surfer Magazine did an 8 page fold out called Shapers: The family tree and the Huntington Surf Museum have a whole web site called The Shapers Tree