I could not believe my luck that striked me over last weekend. I tumbled across the local Car Boot sales yesterday, and spotted this GEM lying next to a seller's truck.
Little that I thought this would be for sale. Indeed it was, with a ridiculously dirt cheap price. It is one of the very first longboards which was personally shaped by a local and famous shaper, SHANE.
It is a 9f1x23"x2 5/8, stringer-less, single fin, wide square tail, V bottom all the way through.
Judging the design, shape and condition, it would be at least over 40 years old. The man told me he had been displaying it in his home bar for 30 years. And surprisingly still in reasonably good shape, ride-able.
I could not wait to have a ride on it. Took it out before sunset, Sunday. It has no leash plug. So it was a real exercise for me to retrieve it several times, a few hundred meters to swim back to shore to collect it. Just like the old days....
It picks the waves so easy, but a little harder to turn than some of my modern longboards in my quiver. I think my head is over the hill with this one.
I have named it as "Oh La La - The Yellow Sheila"
Thanks for reading, Folks!
