Your first board

Beat up used Haut twin fin....probably about 5'8". Dad bought it for me in about 1978, traded it in to Sundancer Surf Shop in OCMD for a skateboard in the middle of a summer flat spell a few summers later.

 

7 0 stinger. Still got it, still ride it. It's beyond yellow. It's getting into the medium brown spectrum.

 

80s 6'2" Town and Country dad bought me from a pawn shop. It was all beat up and we fixed it with epoxy (not the best idea for fiberglass boards) recently I revived it by cutting off 6-8 inches and reshaping the nose and re glassing. Its super responsive and been getting barreled like never before on it!

 

Ozone 9"4' longboard from K-Coast, Ocean City MD in 2005. Love this board to death. Learned how to surf on it and took it out everyday for Hurricane Bill. It's great to have a symbolic first board. I'll have this beast til the day I die. Got a nice quiver now though!

 

7'6" Stewart mini-lb/funboard shape. Love the thing. Rarely still ride it but the thing flies, and every time I do, I tell myself to ride it more.

I really kind of half-consider my first board to be the first board my broke, early-high school self saved up for and bought on my own dime: 6'1" Lost Tataki. That thing definitely was the vehicle for the most important stages of my surfing progression, and the majority of my "you will always remember this one" rides. Alas, it fell fate to the dreaded buckle, but it went out in style. Pretty good, but not great surf, sandbar waves, but with pretty short rides - caught one and it hit the bar/channel perfectly so I rode it a couple hundred yards to the beach, linking turns the whole way, and on the last one, I felt it all go wrong. That was one of the aforementioned "remember" waves (probably because it killed my true love. Sigh). Couldnt've sent it off better if I tried. RIP buddy. When I have the room for it, you'll be on the wall.

 

6'0" Planet Blue that my brother and I pulled out of the garbage can with the entire fin area ripped out of the board and my dad helped us re fiberglass and put new fin boxes in it

 

Mine was a 5'2" twin fin by Don Smith of Hawaii. I'm 6'5". All you could see of me in the line up was my head. next board was a 7'2" Secret Spot.

 

6'4" Sundancer twinie. Got stolen about two months after I bought it.

 

Early 2000's model Bessell 7'2'' funboard. Still have it/still ride it. Bought it used off Craigslist about 5 years ago. Lots of dings, and its pretty yellow now as well but rides great and surprisingly is very easy to catch a thigh high/waist high wave on east coast. It gets some speed going as well. I live in MD and was out on vacation in San Diego last month with family . Got to "meet my maker" Tim Bessell in his LaJolla shop. Very cool and friendly guy. Gave my son and myself a quick tour of the shop after he was finishing up with a customer.

 

7'6" Oceanside, from Grogs Surf palace. Snapped the nose off while learning and brought it to Inlet Outlet for repair only to get ragged on for it being a "Chinese" board. Who knew? I was just a kook.

Actually rode it last weekend just for sh!ts and giggles., 1st time in 18 years, it actually rode pretty well.
I'll never let it go.

 

This is my first board on my first day of surfing. I was hooked 100%. The board is a 9'0" singlefin Hunt Custom. I've only seen one other in SC so I don't know too much about it. Great board though, I was on it yesterday morning.

The lovely ladies in the pic are Ms. SC and Ms. Teen SC contestants. I was laying on the beach after wearing myself out paddling and not catching anything when all these girls start walking right towards me and the jetty I was near. They start taking a whole bunch of pictures and I'm enjoying the show. The photog asked if they could get a pic with me and I was more than happy to oblige. The rest is history.

 

You couldn't ask for a better session that that my friend, and the pic to prove it

 

My 1st board was a 6'4" BAT that I had saved up enough money to buy brand new off the rack when I was 16, rode it a few times before I decided to "shot the pier" and ended up with several puncture wounds on the bottom from hitting the barnacles, ended up surfing it the rest of the session with holes in it, then patched it up with a ding repair kit, probably the worst repair job ever, then I proceeded to "surf" it for another couple years, but it was never the same again, I had such a hard time catching and riding any waves on that thing after I destroyed it like that. Probably why I blew my shoulders out, trying to get into waves on a board that is ruined isn't easy. I still have the board in my closet though, been thinking about pulling it out to see if there is anything that can be done to restore it, doubtful, but maybe one day i'll get motivated and do something to it.

 

10’ infinity cluster, thing was 4 ½’’ thick. Had fun trying to learn to maneuver the beast with out killing myself or anyone else. Sold it for more than i paid for it a year later. It definitely made my 9’ hand me down second board seem like a tiny short board. It was donated to me after a friend saw me struggling with the boat. Still surf a 9’ cause i live in galveston and of course there are no waves in texas, but i do have a 6’6’’ i’m currently learning to ride.

 

Those infinity's are ridiculous. My father in law rides one exclusively and it is a different animal for sure. Tons of float and paddlability but pretty much straight line speed.

 

A 5'4 twinny that was all beat up

 

6'5" patagonia that I bought at a neighbor's yardsale for $30

 

my first board was a retro, back before retro's were cool. Maybe it hadn't become a "retro" yet, it was just old and sh*tty. Yeah. It was super thick and had the most retarded fish tail on it I have ever seen. Loved it, not sure what happened to it though...

 

80's 5'6" Natural Art twin fin. It was stolen by some UNCW phukheads trolling through my grandparent's garage on WB when I was 9.

Perps were found, board was not. I have a similar Classical Glass I'm going to try and restore one of these days.