From: johnlake@microsoft.com (John Lake)
Subject: Re: The longboard is mine!
Date: 14 Oct 92 07:42:56 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Oct13.211714.18457@samba.oit.unc.edu> Danny.Clark@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Danny Clark) writes:
>  Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on the purchase
>of a used longboard.  Yesterday I paid $40.00 ($10  less than
>asking price), strapped it to my cars roof, and brought it home.
>So, what do I do now?  I would like to fix it up.  Not a full
>restoration, just fix all the dings right, and redo the nose and
>tail.  Can I do this, or is this better left to an "expert"?  Bud 
And Danny scores!  Have you ever done much ding repair before or worked
with fiberglass and resin before.  If not then you might just check and
see how much they would charge you to fix it.  Sounds like you got a real
sweet piece of history, it's obviously been ridden before.  That would be 
cool if you could find out who has owned it before you.  Have you talked
to your friend about where he got it from?  

Tail blocks and nose blocks are cool (the wood strips in the nose and tail)
and help save your nose and tail from damage.  I put a tail block on
all my longboards that I shape just cause the tail always seems to me to 
be the first place on a longboard to get damaged.  My 10 footer that I'm
shaping is gonna have a nose block also, it also gives them a nice classy
touch even though it does add weight, but hell it's a longboard.

New board on order.  A 6'6" twinzer shape from Bob Pearson of Pearson Arrow
of Santa Cruz.  I thought I would give this twinzer design a shot and Bob 
still rides a lot of twin fins.  He rode a twin fin longboard this summer 
when he was up here.  Anyone ever ridden a twinzer before?  I tried one that 
a friend shaped and it seemed O.K., but I'm not sure he made it just right.


Going to a few of my favorite reefs and points up north this coming weekend
cause a friend been getting pretty good up there lately.  Didn't surf this
last weekend.  Had a company BBQ friday and strained the muscles in my hand
trying to hit 75 mph hardballs in the batting cage.  Haven't heard anything
about the surf except that it was overhead and real hollow at Westport on
friday, sounds like the sandbar is built good in corner by the jetty.

Oh yeah and about sharks (not to get that htread about killing sharks started
again) , but a friend got nibbled on a bit down in Oregon a few weeks ago.
He said he didn't get any damage and his board got limited damage.  He said
that the sharks came up and bit his leash.  He said that the damn thing just 
towed him around for about 3 minutes (at least that what the people on the 
beach said), and that it finally cut through his leash.  It happened in
Gold Beach in southern Oregon, one of spots we got good surf at when I did
my trip (that I still haven't had time to post) and had a nasty run in with
a stellar sea lion (all 12 feet and 2000 lbs. of his sticking bad breath 
self).  My friend is O.K. and surfed there the next day.  He only had one
thing to say about it IT WAS FUCKING HUGE.

Like I always say, once you paddle out were sharks are known to hang out 
you have just become part of the food chain whether you like it or not.


congrats again Danny on your new/old stick.



John H. Lake



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