Category: Bugg’s Boards
18th June
Randy Rarick
He began patching dings for Greg Noll Surfboards in 1964 (earning the name “Super Patch”). He graduated and left for Australia to attend Sydney Tech, studying accounting and commercial law as well as surfing and learning about shaping. In Australia, he traveled much of the east coast, including a stint at Byron Bay where Bob McTavish and George Greenough were reinventing the surfboard. When his shop bombed, sending him into hefty debt, Rarick dug himself out by shaping and working the night shift as a fiberglass sprayer in Pearl Harbor. Primarily, Rarick works as a shaper, operating under the exclusive license for Bear Surfboards as well as Hawaiian Designs. Since picking up a planer in 1964, he has crafted more than 8,000 boards.
KEY: O= Original, R= Repaired, RF= Refurbished. Condition of board rated: … Read More »
14th June
South Shore
Jerry Mowe started building surfboards in 1968 using his first label Church Surfboards in Corona Del Mar California. In 1968 he and his wife Patti moved to Puerto Rico to build boards with Bill Holden. They moved back to Newport Beach and rented a building in Costa Mesa. While building his boards he started to do team glassing for Petrillo Surfboards and eventually got a job shaping production for Creative Designs and California Company for Grant Reynolds in the South Bay. Tired of the day to day grind of production shaping he jumped into production glassing, built his first glass shop and changed his name to South Shore. He started to put together a crew to handle the volume of shaping and glassing that came in to the shop. With shapers like Robert August, Terry Martin, … Read More »
11th June
Small Faces
Petrillo moved to Texas to build boards there and we started manufacturing SMALL FACES Surfboards. The concept was that instead of one person’s name on a board there were a lot of small faces that worked to make these surfboards, interchangeable faces, plus Rod Stewart’s band, Faces, was popular at the time.”
“Our shaper back then was Steve McGregor, who shaped for us maybe 4-5 years, then a guy name Bobby Kazanis. He shaped for years. He is one of the best shapers on the West Coast to this day, but he never had the political acclaim in the industry and didn’t play well in that circle. But he has the abilities of any of the top shapers from that era. He still shapes today in Huntington.”
KEY: O= Original, R= Repaired, RF= Refurbished. Condition of board … Read More »
9th June
Sunset
Not alone in his efforts, Ed wright had his father, Bud Wright, a commercial illustrator, create the first Sunset Surfboards logo that soon graced the decks of many surfboards, t-shirts, and other merchandise. Ed Wright also had plenty of help to run this factory and shop. Over the years, such noted shapers included Sid Madden, Bill Shrosbee, Ned McMahon, Mike Willis, Rusty, and Tim Bessell, and along with a crew of Dave Devorak, Mike Shoneman, Bill and Richard Bernard (now own Surf Ride), Cheer Critchlow, and Brian Frederickson (took over the Sunset shop and name in 1989). In 1980, Peter “Pinstripe” St. Pierre, Gary Stuber, Kenny Mann, and Mark Donneland who were a stable force at Sunset went off to create Moonlight Glassing which is still going strong today as San Diego’s top glassers.
KEY: O= Original, R= … Read More »
7th June
Sky Surfboards
After dropping out of high school, he began shaping surfboards at 17 in Sydney. He worked for the then major manufacturers of surfboards in Australia including Larkin Surfboards, Dillon Surfboards, and Keyo Surfboards.
Bob was a natural shaper and a competent surfer. However, he was constantly looking for better equipment ideas and how to use the power of waves. In the beginning of 1967, McTavish concentrated on an entirely new bottom design. The design consisted of a deep “V” shaped into the back third of the board, and a wide tail.
These shorter, lighter V-bottomed surfboards with the new Greenough-designed high aspect ratio fins began the short board revolution. Surfboards and the style of surfing changed forever with the evolutionary concepts and designs of Bob McTavish, George Greenough, and Nat Young.
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4th June
Owl Chapman
Owl Chapman is considered one of the fathers of the short board revolution. He pioneered board riding with early designs on Oahu by Dick Brewer, including the minigun. The school of surf that Chapman originates from is different from the Australian and South Africans who are best known for Bustin’ Down The Door. Their philosophy of western competitive traditions has been argued by other surf pioneers such as Gerry Lopez and Owl Chapman, as being respectful of the Hawaiian culture. Chapman, on the other hand, worked within the Hawaiian community, as a resident of the North Shore, to further the short board revolution.
KEY: O= Original, R= Repaired, RF= Refurbished. Condition of board rated: 1(worst)-10(best)
Board Dimensions
Length: 7′ 0″
Width: 18″ 3/4
Thickness: 2″ … Read More »
3rd June
Phil Edwards
Phillip (“Phil”) Edwards (born June 10, 1938) is a legendary surfer. He is credited with being the first to surf the Banzai pipeline in Hawaii, being the first professional surfer, and creating the first signature surf board. He was the subject of a cover story, and his photo appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1966. Edwards was also featured prominently in the Bruce Brown films The Endless Summer and before that Surfing Hollow Days which featured the first film footage of Pipeline.
KEY: O= Original, R= Repaired, RF= Refurbished. Condition of board rated: 1(worst)-10(best)
Board Dimensions
Length: 7′ 0″
Width: 20″ 1/2
Thickness: 2″ 1/2
A classic Phil Edwards Honolulu Transitional 1968 with a classic glassed in flex fin. Some sun tanning on deck. A great example of the short board … Read More »
31st May
Wayne Lynch
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 »
28th May
Rick Rasmussen
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 »
26th May
Mark Foo
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 »
