A mate sent me a link to this board on Facebook marketplace. He knows I have a couple of Sunova boards I have been enjoying lately.
I clicked on the link and the board is so wrong looking by today's standards. It was made in 1999 by Bert Burger in WA. He pioneered the balsa peripheral stringer used by the evil Firewire surfboard anti-christs.
Looking at the pics online I could see some obvious water damage and it had filthy wax on the deck making it look very unloved.
I told my mate..."No thanks but thanks for the heads up."
Anyway a few weeks go by and the ad for the board pops up im my marketplace suggestions. Its down to $200 from what price I can't remember.
So I figure I am passing by the sellers location so might as well go have a look.
First sight of the board and I am shocked at the amount of rocker. I pick it up and despite the water damage which was due to a ding on the rail, now repaired, is still super light.
The 2 balsa over eps Sunovas I have are both really light. This board is even lighter than my 8' one. Even has nice hand made timber fins glassed on.
It has a small unrepaired hole in the deck and a crack in a line of the finish coat on the bottom. Easy fixes with solar rez.
So I offer him $150 (yeah, I know, what was I thinking?).
Take it home and clean it up and repair the damage.
Looking at it again it hits me. Apart from the tail looking Meyehofferish I'll be damned if it doesn't look like one of Roy's infamous banana rockered Olos.
The board is 8'1 x 20&1/8" x 2&5/8" and says Mal gun in pencil next to the dims.
Can anyone recall when Roy says he started doing his banana rockered Olos?
I have a white Gath kicking around in the garage somewhere I could dig out but no fluro steamer to complete the costume.
Again...what was I thinking? Hey maybe I will email Bert with some pics and he will swap it for a nice new board if he plans on having a museum of his old boards someday...Hmmm...I think I'm dreaming here.
I clicked on the link and the board is so wrong looking by today's standards. It was made in 1999 by Bert Burger in WA. He pioneered the balsa peripheral stringer used by the evil Firewire surfboard anti-christs.
Looking at the pics online I could see some obvious water damage and it had filthy wax on the deck making it look very unloved.
I told my mate..."No thanks but thanks for the heads up."
Anyway a few weeks go by and the ad for the board pops up im my marketplace suggestions. Its down to $200 from what price I can't remember.
So I figure I am passing by the sellers location so might as well go have a look.
First sight of the board and I am shocked at the amount of rocker. I pick it up and despite the water damage which was due to a ding on the rail, now repaired, is still super light.
The 2 balsa over eps Sunovas I have are both really light. This board is even lighter than my 8' one. Even has nice hand made timber fins glassed on.
It has a small unrepaired hole in the deck and a crack in a line of the finish coat on the bottom. Easy fixes with solar rez.
So I offer him $150 (yeah, I know, what was I thinking?).
Take it home and clean it up and repair the damage.
Looking at it again it hits me. Apart from the tail looking Meyehofferish I'll be damned if it doesn't look like one of Roy's infamous banana rockered Olos.
The board is 8'1 x 20&1/8" x 2&5/8" and says Mal gun in pencil next to the dims.
Can anyone recall when Roy says he started doing his banana rockered Olos?
I have a white Gath kicking around in the garage somewhere I could dig out but no fluro steamer to complete the costume.
Again...what was I thinking? Hey maybe I will email Bert with some pics and he will swap it for a nice new board if he plans on having a museum of his old boards someday...Hmmm...I think I'm dreaming here.
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