Described by some as the inventor of vertical surfing and others as the ultimate soul surfer, Wayne Lynch’s contributions to the evolution of wave riding are hard to deny. He was a teenager during the critical transition from longboards to shortboards in the late sixties and early seventies. The lines he drew on early shortboards were completely new at the time and his influence can still be seen in today’s surfers.

Wayne began surfing at age 10 and was something of a child phenom in Australia. He won six consecutive Victoria state titles in the juniors division and four straight juniors division Australian national titles. He tried professional surfing for a short time and appeared in some notable surf films along the way, including a breakout performance in the 1969 release Evolution, the 1971 classic Sea of Joy and a 1978 … Read More »

The last world-class surfer to come out of the Big Apple was Rick Rasmussen in the seventies. He became known first for his bold tube riding at Pipeline, then for getting busted with a kilo of coke in Bali. He was eventually shot dead in the streets of Harlem in a deal gone bad.

KEY: O= Original, R= Repaired, RF= Refurbished. Condition of board rated: 1(worst)-10(best)

Board Dimensions
Length: 6′ 7″
Width: 19″ 1/2
Thickness: 3″
True East Coast Collectable.  Rare find and in excellent all original condition.  A Rick Rasmussen 1970’s Hand Shaped Pintail.  Red Pigment deck overlap with a resin black pin line. Very white foam bottom with very little sun UV exposure.  Rick R. R.I.P.. I have seen one other Rick … Read More »

Life and career

Born in Singapore to Chinese photojournalists for the U.S. Information Agency he relocated to Hawaii at age 10. Foo spent his early childhood surfing the South Shore of O’ahu. His family moved several times during his adolescence, but Foo ultimately returned to Hawaii just before finishing high school. He continued surfing throughout his teen years and in 1977 he joined a professional surfing tour, the IPS World Tour. In the early 1980s, Foo quit the IPS World Tour, stopped competing, and began surfing Waimea Bay, a famous big wave surfing spot on the North Shore of O’ahu. Foo’s passion for surfing big waves led him to surf larger and larger swells.

Accidental Death at Maverick’s

On December 23, 1994, Mark Foo died in a surfing accident at Mavericks, a big wave in Half Moon Bay, Northern California. Surfer magazine wrote that … Read More »

Martin Potter (born October 28, 1965), nicknamed “Pottz” and “Eggy Potter”, is a British born, former surfing professional who was educated in Durban, South Africa. He began surfing off the beaches of his hometown Durban at age 10. By the age of 15, he was surfing 20″+ waves at the infamous “Banzai Pipeline” located on Hawaiis North Shore. At the time, he was using the assistance of jet-ski to tow into the wave as an alternative to paddling. This pre-dated modern tow-in surfing and can help lay claim to Potter being one of ‘tow-in’ surfings pioneers. Potter won theAssociation of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Championship Tour in 1989 after claiming 6 tour victories from 25 events scheduled for that years title race, and therefore the title of “World Surfing Champion,”. This would come fourteen years after learning to … Read More »

Bing Copeland played a major role in helping surfing and the surfboard industry to become what they are today. At 13, he became fascinated while helping out at pioneer surfboard maker Dale Velzy’s workshop in Manhattan Beach. He spent the mid-’50s in the Coast Guard stationed in Hawaii and surfed the big waves of Oahu’s North Shore and Makaha. In 1958 he sailed across the Pacific and introduced modern surfboards to New Zealand. By 1960, back in Southern California, he was making surfboards commercially and his company became one of the longest-running and most progressive in the surfing world. This is the story of Bing Copeland, the business he built, the colorful cast of craftsmen he employed and the visionary surfboards they made and continue to make even now.

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