The real deal. A 1+2 Burrito hull by Spence. Just picked up this morning...
Silver Strand Locals
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Another '68 Puerto Rico Vid ...
The footage from Evolution tends to dominate our memories of this event, but the US television coverage on ABC was more thorough. It shows some neat hull surfing here and there.
The waves were atrocious for the boards they were riding -- or vice versa -- and a lot of credit has to be given to the riders as they soldier on in the face of some shapeless, warbly junk.
This is Part One of the coverage. Not sure if Part Two is online...I can't find it.
Even though Nat Young and Wayne Lynch were riding first-gen, pulled-in roundtails, their boards still had V in the back half. You can see the V of Nat's board parting the water in the middle shot below...
From Spence ...
From The Net ....
A couple of on-line stirrings regarding modern surfboard design, found on the World Wide Web...
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Roger Kelly forwarded this treatise on the shortcomings of contemporary big wave design.
It's a long read -- and pretty technical -- but that allows author Donn Ito gets to the heart of the flaws of flat bottom surfboards in big surf.
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Glenn Sakamoto also turned up this short piece from the Surfer Magazine site on the fading grandeur of thrusters in everyday surfing.
It's interesting that it took so long -- over 3 decades -- for the media to catch up!
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