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

Saturday 22 December 2012

happy christmas

Happy christmas everyone ! Thanks to all who have contributed to another great year of the blog with lots of new boards, finds and stories , and two successful surf meets ! Some real gems have been unearthed this year, and there have been some classic swells to ride them on. Heres to 2013.
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17 comments:

  1. jon22 December 2012 at 20:57

    merry christmas Al.long may the quest continue!

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  2. Anonymous23 December 2012 at 21:58

    thanks Jon, and you mate !

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  3. Anonymous24 December 2012 at 09:56

    Dora says 'Will the 'Holy Grail' appear next year? It must out there some where, Britania Bilbo come to me' :)

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  4. Anonymous4 January 2013 at 08:54

    Sorry guys, it was never known as Britannia , thats pure surf museum ( making it up again ), it was called the union jack board, or just the flag board . And there were a couple of them from what I remember . One ended up with a wetsuit manufacturer, the other may be in someones garage if its not landfill yet .

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  5. Anonymous4 January 2013 at 11:34

    The union jack at Gul isnt a real sumpter one.

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    1. Anonymous5 January 2013 at 09:32

      The real ones have no white strip round the rails, they are all blue with the red and white stripes top and bottom meeting at the rails.

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  6. PUGWASH5 January 2013 at 18:34

    I Bet if its out there Roger Robinson will open the lost tomb , give it a good polish and donate it to the museum.

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  7. PUGWASH5 January 2013 at 18:38

    P.s if i find it ,Seaman Staines can have it for his collection.

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  8. seaman staines5 January 2013 at 19:09

    thank you

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  9. Anonymous5 January 2013 at 22:38

    Well wasp up arse or pin in eyes comes to mind, if the Britania or union(?) comes out of the woodwork i prey it lands in the lap of some one who isn't trying to make money out of vintage. Dora Lives!!!!!!!!

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    1. Anonymous6 January 2013 at 13:14

      Britannia was the name Design 1, or Aqua-Jet, gave to the Sumpter 7-6 flag board they sold by the thousands in USA around 1970. They were ALL made by a shaping machine, according to the second advert A-J published in surfer magazine .

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  10. Lobster Lover6 January 2013 at 16:38

    Talking about the Holy Grail, looks like the Surfing museum has just put one up for sale , sorry not a Union Jack Board, but still well up there.

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  11. Anonymous7 January 2013 at 09:26

    yes saw that, an almost complete set of British surfer mags - so rare ! Something I sadly cant afford, and would never sell if I had them !
    It might only take me 40 years to find them at car boot sales....

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  12. Aussie Collector7 January 2013 at 21:51

    Too much ANONYMOUS going on here!!!!!!!!!

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    1. Anonymous9 January 2013 at 10:55

      We all know who we are - and you do too, Ozzie

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  13. capt pugwash10 January 2013 at 17:59

    who is lobster lover ?

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  14. alasdair lindsay11 January 2013 at 08:55

    lobster lover ? pugwash ? seaman staines ? This is all sounding too much like some dodgy salty sea dogs convention

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