Surfing Waves

Hi all,

Well, as my girlfriend and Mum both predicted, I have shown my usual addictive personality and Gear Acquisition Syndrome and bought a second board within a month of the first!!

After having a WONDERFUL ride on another surfers nine and a bit footer (thanks if you on here)I realised what a but of extra length and width can do for you. (I should have listened to the girls).

So I managed to bag me a Soles Up Front 9.2’ / 24” off ebay for the reasonable sum of £180 with its own bag and leash.

I was thinking of returning the original board to the shop I bought it from as the owner said he would give me a good buy back price when I had outgrown it,

But then I hit on another Idea…(well borrowed it from someone else on here) … lots of my mates are interested in surfing , two of them particularly so , they also have wetsuits but we are always held up by the opening hours of the board rental shops…you know, jobs, life , that sorta stuff.

2 calls later and we have struck an agreement where I will keep the original board and “rent” it to my surf-interested friends, passing on the advice I have been given on how to surf as we go. Once I have gotten the equivalent of the trade in price back from everyone who uses it, then it will become a Community Board and anyone who wants to use it can do for free as and when.

I am really struck on this as a bit of a win win situation as is solves my problem of wanting to go out surfing with someone but being tied to surf shop hours for getting my mates their kit.

Also if worst comes to worst and everyone else's interest fades out, I can still trade it in as per original plan (probably with a few more dings knowing my mates) hehe.

Just burn it as a sacrifice to huey next time there's a flat spell.

Wooooh! Excellent idea!

Im keeping my minimal for friends borrowing purposes, i can't imagine i'll be using her too much what with Neema the brand new Harmergeddon Magic Carpet on the scene. Baby (the minimal) was my first board however so i'll never get rid of her

hehe, i Know what you mean Libby.

Deep down I knew I didnt want to part company but finances dictated that I should...this way I get best of both and Pookie (my board) lives to fight another tide.

hows your new board surfing?

Haven't had a chance to try her yet

I'm back up in Northumberland and Neema is still in the evil clutch of her creatorbut im moving down soof in September so i'll free her and let you know how she goes then

suffer from the same affliction phil! started surfin properly a year ago and am 4 boards in lol....
mate's buyin one cos he's the only one really to have surfed it and has it trashed... recession probably sort it all out.. still tho, thinkin of buyin a fish... seriously.. i need help

yup i got that too. get a new board sort of every 6 months to a year. sometimes used sometimes a new one from kitey.

thats kitesurfers a feind i tell ya! he made me exaclly the board i wanted,so i thought that was that,turns out i now have a hankering for something for the bigger stuff.................

gixer wrote:thats kitesurfers a feind i tell ya! he made me exaclly the board i wanted,so i thought that was that,turns out i now have a hankering for something for the bigger stuff.................

same for me just not got the cash yet ks has us all hooked

So where ya say you get the idea from?

LOL......a little birdy

I keep a couple of boards for friends to use. I pass information on to them as they progress. And i do not charge them rent for using the board Therein lies the difference between phil's plan and mine.