1989 Styro-Epoxy-Poly Longboard
In 1989, shortly after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, my Dad Peter St Pierre hotwired a big chunk of styrofoam into a surfboard blank and had Mike Slingerland shape it into this longboard. Gary Stuber glassed it with epoxy resin. My Dad rode it a few times and felt the board was too light, especially in offshore winds, so it was resanded and then glassed a second time with polyester resin. He added this groovy artwork, surfed it for the rest of the summer and then the board was retired to the garage where me and JM dug it out last weekend. My Dad somehow got all that crusty wax off the next day.
*note the Rip Curl Surfboards label as they were a big client for Moonlight Glassing in the 80’s.
moonkitty
March 9, 2009I can haz longboard?
Anonymous
March 9, 2009Did Pinliner really paint his feet and step on the deck? 🙂
Lorraine
March 9, 2009I think it needs the Turbo Tunnel fin!! 🙂
Anonymous
March 9, 2009Hey is that the newest hipster longboard pose in the third picture?
surfer57
March 10, 2009Diggin this board.
Anonymous
March 10, 2009Glide lil quasimoto glide!
Anonymous
March 10, 2009hey you got flowers in your greass! i got snow in mine with more coming down at the moment. at least it should be offshore in the morning!