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Re: Old School Canvas Rafts
« Reply #15 on: August 08, 2014, 10:36:08 AM »
Wow
This one looks like it is worth checking out.
I already have the 60" And 45" Intex.

Swimline Speedster Nylon Covered Inflatable Body Board (Blue/Multi Color, 45 x 26 x 3-Inch)

Slick Bottom with Handles...WHOOOO ! ! !  $30 Bucks...

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Re: Old School Canvas Rafts
« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2014, 10:34:20 PM »
Great retro comeback Ralph. I used to have one of the blue and yellow ones that I rode my first wave on about 50 years ago.

I have to check out our Ace Hardware now.

Deb used to love to surf those exact rafts back in our college daze...pretty fun...check out her smile...that was until there started to be a number of increasing shark bites on surfers at her fav spot...;-)

Of course, our local surf god, George Greenough was the king of all mat surfers...I shared an over DOH wave with him in front, that I will never forget...

GG mat wave ride slowed down on Maui in '67...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SnHlsDA5nM


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Thanks for the videos. My youngest brother recently had a bunch of my dad's old 16mm moves digitized. I am pretty sure there is some footage of George on a raft in there somewhere. Unfortunately I think most of their adventures were not recorded on film  Most of the movies are motorcycle racing but there are a few reels of early 60's SB surfing. I will check it out and see about posting it when I see him next.

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Re: Old School Canvas Rafts
« Reply #17 on: August 13, 2014, 05:34:01 AM »

I had a neumatic mat built by Dale Solomonson, but didn't really get on with it, that was a few years back now, I might have to give it another go after reading this thread, my friend Graeme in the U.K. is building some nice mats now & heavily involved with the mat scene there, he told me his mats are easier to ride than the neumatics  :)

You can check them out here: http://customsurfmats.com

And here's the U.K. mat rider's forum: http://ukmatsurfers.com

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Re: Old School Canvas Rafts
« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2014, 03:33:16 PM »
Great retro comeback Ralph. I used to have one of the blue and yellow ones that I rode my first wave on about 50 years ago.

I have to check out our Ace Hardware now.

Deb used to love to surf those exact rafts back in our college daze...pretty fun...check out her smile...that was until there started to be a number of increasing shark bites on surfers at her fav spot...;-)

Of course, our local surf god, George Greenough was the king of all mat surfers...I shared an over DOH wave with him in front, that I will never forget...

GG mat wave ride slowed down on Maui in '67...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SnHlsDA5nM



Thanks for the videos. My youngest brother recently had a bunch of my dad's old 16mm moves digitized. I am pretty sure there is some footage of George on a raft in there somewhere. Unfortunately I think most of their adventures were not recorded on film  Most of the movies are motorcycle racing but there are a few reels of early 60's SB surfing. I will check it out and see about posting it when I see him next.
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That would be awesome if you can stream some of the footage of George...

I was fortunate to have spent a good amount of time with him at the beach surfing and windsurfing...also, had him in our home with his 35mm underwater dolphin movies...learned so much about fin design from him, that I have incorporated into my own fins...especially tip flex...pure genius...

Our shop staff are having a blast getting back into mat surfing...a bunch of them are life guards and swimmers...the new surf mat technology is worth checking out...man, they are fast...;-)
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Re: Old School Canvas Rafts
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2014, 06:47:23 PM »
As our close amigo Kenny would say....every day is overhead on a "trash bag"......;-)

For performance surf mats...it's time to zoom ahead 4 decades past "rafts"...to the new school surf mats...;-)
Don't travel for surf without one...

http://blog.surfingsports.com/2014/09/mat-surfing.html

http://matsurfing.com
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