Bill Fury Honoloa Bay 1965

Are You Free This Monday?

From The Miracle Of Instagram

Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and hulls run parallel to the wall...

Mystery Hull

No info as to dims, who shaped it, or rider feedback. Twinnie set-up looks interesting...

Another French Connection

 

Fast forward some 5 decades from the last post...A concept board from the engineers at Peugot.

Let's let the Peugot people explain...

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Peugeot design lab displays GTi surfboard concept at the Goodwood festival of speed

Peugeot Design Lab is a Global Brand Design Studio. Our 200 years of industrial experience and 120 years of automotive know-how is available to outside clients• The GTi Surfboard Concept celebrates thrill seekers who attend Peugeot stand• Many performance Peugeot cars are displayed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Commissioned to coincide with the presence of Peugeot at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed with its thrilling on stand Flowrider Surf Machine, the Peugeot Design Lab has produced a unique ‘GTi Surfboard’ Concept. The design was inspired by the thrill from driving Peugeot’s latest performance products, most notably the new 208 GTi and also saluting the new RCZ R and exclusive Onyx Concept Car.The Peugeot Design Lab Surfboard Concept blends the traditional wood of a classic surfboard with the latest carbon fibre technology, as applied extensively to the Onyx Concept Car. Quad fins fluidly placed along the edge of the scalped tail are designed to give a responsive, exhilarating and agile ride quality.The ‘coupe franche’ (clean cut) design separates the two ends of the board, the ‘Motion’ end is a precise, hi-tech shape optimised with a carbon fibre tail piece while the leading edge nose is beautifully shaped with ‘Emotion’ from natural wood, embellished with its brand signature ‘Peugeot GTi’.Visitors to the Goodwood Festival of Speed can see the Peugeot Design Lab GTi Surfboard Concept next to the Flowrider Surf Machine on the Peugeot stand, itself located at the centre of display activities. 

 

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I'm not taking this seriously until I see one in KP's garage...

:)

Summer, 1968

Right in the heart of the shortboard revolution -- 1969 -- Surfer Magazine published an article following the French leg of the shooting of MacGillivray/Freeman's "Waves Of Change." (Which was later rebranded and re-released in 35mm as "The Sunshine Sea.")

This photo was one of the more prominent non-surfing images accompanying the piece, and while it was interesting enough at the time, it's a treasure trove of information when viewed through 20-20 hindsight.

The surfers pictured were Americans Mark Martinson (with the glass of wine...how very French), and Bill Hamilton (reading surfer magazine), along with the late Australian, Keith Paull. This was in the summer of 1968, and they were riding first and second generation shortboards that summer.

The distinction between first and second design generations is key. Both Martinson and Hamilton were on their first shortboards...relatively crude American interpretations of the Australian V-Bottoms. Keith Paull's green roundtail was the next step in the evolution, and although it maintained the wide tail of the Deep V's, the roundtail was a quantum leap forward. Plus Keith's board sported a glass-on fiberglass fin, while Martinson ad Hamilton were still using the WAVE Set fin system with molded plastic fins left over from the longboard era.

So here, captured in one image, are Nat Young riding an early V at Honolua Bay (in the magazine Hamilton is reading), two early American V's, and one of the very first roundtails. And 3 world class surfers. (4 if you include Nat Young.)

Plus, a bitchin' VW Combi Van...

From Bryce

Volan Cloth? Check.

Cut Laps? Check.

Clear layup? Check.

Patch over fin box? Check.

Sanded finish? Check.

Fin set 13" Up? Check.