What Would You Do With $600?

[rickalbano]

My wife just gave me the green light to buy a board. She basically said, "You have $600 bucks - go crazy." I had no idea that this was coming, so now I'm going to all the websites I used to drool over with the empowerment to actually pull the trigger on a purchase... or maybe not.

See, I want an amazing board. I want a piece of history. I want magic in the water this summer. I have been looking at a wide range of fun fishies and beautiful bonzers with resin tints and pinlines. But then I realized that those boards new are actually out of my budget (by a hundred or more).

What should I do? Wait for the perfect slightly used stick to come up in these classifieds? (For instance, that Bumble Bee was in my price range, but might be a little to big - I'm 5'8" tall and 145 lbs.) Buy a new lesser known board by a lesser known shaper?

What would you do? I currently have a 7' egg, a 6'6" hybrid, and a 6'2" Nugget. Oh yeah, and I live in the Pacific Northwest.

Thanks!

 

[surfish]

It's a surfboard.
You shouldn't really look at it as an investment. You should just look at it like something you're going to be able to use for a year if you're lucky...

 

[20W-50 and blood]

1) Night Train
2) Hookers

 

[Basswave]

1) Night Train
2) Hookers

Nice one........ <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

But if you don't go for that and your in the Pacific Northwest thank most certainly talk to this guy.

Bryan Bates at Seven Surfboards

http://www.sevensurfboards.com/html/contact_us.html

Check these out.

http://www.sevensurfboards.com/html/what_s_new.html

I like the Morning Star.

http://www.sevensurfboards.com/html/morning_star.html

He is very cool guy who cares about what he is making.
Great Materials for killer boards that perform.

Good Luck...... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/beer.gif" alt="" />

 

[speelyei]

"oh yeah, and I live in the Pacific Northwest".

Buy a clue. Use that money to go somewhere with waves.

 

[rickalbano]

"oh yeah, and I live in the Pacific Northwest".

Buy a clue. Use that money to go somewhere with waves.

That's true. There is no surf up here. There are also a lot of sharks.

Thanks to the other guys for the advice. I prefer Mad Dog 20/20 though...

 

[20W-50 and blood]

MMMMMM MAD DOOOOOGGGGGGG........... but why the hell did they lower the alcohol content on that?

 

[20W-50 and blood]

im not partial to pabst..id much prefer malt liquor or natural ice...but as far as pabst goes, their draft (gold n black can) is much better than the Blue RIbbon

 

[Basswave]

MMMMMM MAD DOOOOOGGGGGGG........... but why the hell did they lower the alcohol content on that?

Man....We would drink that in High School and only if we where desperate.