Vintage Surf meet 2019 coming soon !

Vintage Surf meet 2019 coming soon !
Free to take part
We buy interesting old boards 60s/70s/early 80s in good condition. Email alasdairlindsay75@gmail.com . Also wanted - Surfing UK , British Surfer and Surf Insight magazines .
Above photo - copyright Rennie Ellis photographer archive

Monday, 14 December 2009

Another Ocean Magic

Just when this blog was turning into a Semmens fanclub here's a board from t'other one in the partnership Pete mooney McCallum. Mooney was a New Zealander who set up Ocean Magic in 1976 and later sold it to Semmens. This twin fin dates from around 1977/8 and is a bit of a project board but worth the work as Mooneys are rare and its just a nice all round board at 6'4 x 21 x 3 with some lovely detailing in the pinlines although there are some crude elements like untidy edges on cloth overlaps.Its all part of the character though, the early beginnings of a great company. Anyone got any green fins ??








Article below from Atlantic Surfer 1979



And another one..

Here's a nice pintail Nigel Semmens board off ebay, no 1091 , 6'1 x 20 3/4 x 2 1/2 , a looker which went for a healthy price, money well spent whoever bought it.












8 comments:

  1. He was my cousins husband back in the late 70s...i still remember him shaping boards in the shed on the family farm in Cornwall UK

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    1. Hi there would love to see a picture
      I collect Mooney boards
      Being I moved to NZ
      But now back in 🇬🇧
      I have 4 boards
      and amazing story to go with it
      One board which is one of his early one 0039 when he was learning

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    2. You interested in number 0077?

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    1. Hi there would love to see a picture
      I collect Mooney boards
      Being I moved to NZ
      But now back in 🇬🇧
      I have 4 boards
      and amazing story to go with it
      One board which is one of his early one 0039 when h

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    2. I have one from the 70's. My dad bought it in Newquay. It's number 0077

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    3. Domdumvile I like to see that
      Sorry two years later
      Surffins@hotmail.co.uk

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  3. Jules_is_a_happy_camper16 May 2023 at 09:01

    I think i have one of his surfboards, made for hotbuttered surf trade ?

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