Saturday, 22 December 2012
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merry christmas Al.long may the quest continue!
ReplyDeletethanks Jon, and you mate !
ReplyDeleteDora says 'Will the 'Holy Grail' appear next year? It must out there some where, Britania Bilbo come to me' :)
ReplyDeleteSorry 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 .
ReplyDeleteThe union jack at Gul isnt a real sumpter one.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
DeleteI Bet if its out there Roger Robinson will open the lost tomb , give it a good polish and donate it to the museum.
ReplyDeleteP.s if i find it ,Seaman Staines can have it for his collection.
ReplyDeletethank you
ReplyDeleteWell 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!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBritannia 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 .
DeleteTalking 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.
ReplyDeleteyes 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 !
ReplyDeleteIt might only take me 40 years to find them at car boot sales....
Too much ANONYMOUS going on here!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe all know who we are - and you do too, Ozzie
Deletewho is lobster lover ?
ReplyDeletelobster lover ? pugwash ? seaman staines ? This is all sounding too much like some dodgy salty sea dogs convention
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