What was your first surfboard?

Question

or the first one you learned on

nsp 6'8 funboard here

Answer 1

My Dad bought me a 9'4 Greg Noll Custom. Dark green with a wooden skeg. I was just a little kid and couldn't even carry it myself. One of my brothers had to help take to the beach and back. ( I guess that's why John F advises to go to a surf shop to get the right board!)  I sold it when we moved inland for 25.00. It would probably be worth a couple grand now. I really loved the board because it was a gift from my father, but I much more enjoy the light shorter boards I have now.

Answer 2

9 ft Santa Cruz Charger HPLB

Answer 3

First board i learned on was a 9ft longboard. I used it for a while then eventually picked up a 6'8" Kirk Bierke shaped surfboard..the local shop sold it for $180..i considered it a steal.

Answer 4

It was July 1966, and it was a 9'6" Whitehouse (or maybe Whitehead) made in Texas. It was molded chopped fiberglass, like a boat hull, in two halves with a white rubber 'bumper' around the rails. They sandwiched a PU foam blank. It had an aluminum skeg screwed into the wood 'stringer', which only ran at the tail end of the board.

My buddies quickly nicknamed it the pig, or the blimpering pig. I rode it for most of two summers before I peeled of the fiberglass shell and used the blank to make a new board. It was really a total popout piece of junk, but now I bet it would be worth a lot of money to a collector.

Most of my buddies rode decent boards, Greg Nolls, Bahnes, Cons, Ricks, Challengers etc. I was the only guy I knew with a piece of junk like that, although I did see another one a guy in Wildwood was riding.

After riding during most of two summers, I bought a used (1967) 8'6" Rick Plastic Fantastic V bottom. That was a pretty great board, I wish I had that one today. I swapped out the stock fin for a Waveset, "New E-Free Fin", a George Greenough designed fin.

Answer 5

8'0

steve howard

Answer 6

My first board was a 6 foot thruster by Fox Watersports, shaped by Greg Loehr.  Bright orange with hot pink splatter.  Glassed side fins and a Rainbow fin in the center box.  Wish I still had it.

Answer 7

6-8 nsp

haha thats funny.

Answer 8

9 foot longboard

The Surfboard Man

http://wwwthesurfboardman.com

Answer 9

soft top funboard   i dont remember the brand name

Answer 10

8'2'' soft top

Answer 11

6'8" Natural Art.