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Moonlight had a customer in the 1980’s who ordered a rad 7’6″ egg under the Rip Curl label. He surfed it to death and recently showed up and ordered a copy.
The original Rip Curl logos are long gone but some old school Moonlight logos were located in an old dusty folder.

This is the nice thing about the same crew of guys working at the same factory since 1979, you can get get new/old stuff.

Shape then and now: Mike Slingerland

Airbrushing then and now: Peter St Pierre

Glassing then and now: Gary Stuber

Sanding then and now: Kenny Mann

Polish gloss then and now: Mark Donnellon.

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By Surfy SurfyNovember 2, 20119 Comments

80's airbrush egg slingerland

80’s Moonlight Shros

This cool 1980's Shros found it's way into our booth today. Stoked!

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By Surfy SurfyOctober 9, 20110 Comments

80's sacred craft Shros

Another 80’s Moon Frye

Our neighbor Jay has this cool Skip Frye made at Moonlight Glassing back in the 1980’s. It’s still a rider 20 years later.

By Surfy SurfyJune 1, 2011March 26, 20212 Comments

80's Moon Frog skip frye tri-fin

1980’s Sunset Tri Fin

This one came into the shop via the underground surfy network of surf bros with rad old boards in their garages.
What: Sunset Surfboards tri-fin.
Who: Shaper and founder of Sunset, Ed Wright.
When: Early 1980’s.
Where: Made at Moonlight Glassing, which originally existed inside Sunset Surfboards on the coast highway in Encinitas, before moving out to the industrial park in San Marcos in 1979.

Stray Observations:
*An interesting blend of logos from the classic 70’s Sunset to Ed’s very 80s shaper logo, to the super classic TRI FIN logo (to clarify the confusion of early 80’s multi-fin madness).
*The red, white and blue wishbone hotcoat color work is 1970’s influenced.
*The glass-on side fins are cool. The center box is a Freestyle box which is common on these early 80s boards. The mini-boomerang fin was actually popular for a short time back then.
*Duct tape seems to have fallen out of favor as a go-to ding repair solution in the last decade or so.
*This board was well used which is a good sign that the owner loved it. It has some major dings but all are repairable.
*It’s light!
*There are design elements in this board which are enjoying a resurgence lately. 1980s shortboards were pretty darn good mushbusters.

*This board was made 30 years ago by the same crew that makes all the new boards featured on Surfy Surfy.

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By Surfy SurfyJanuary 13, 2011September 23, 20203 Comments

80's Ed Wright Sunset Surfboards tri-fin

Helmet, stickers, traction, Bonzer

13 year old Taj Burrow geared out on a Campbell Brothers Bonzer shaped by Australian Mick Manolas. Photo via Cabinessence via Swell Net

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By Surfy SurfyNovember 16, 20102 Comments

80's bonzer press

Skip Frye Moon Egg

This is a 6’10” 1980s Skip Frye that I bought from a local guy this summer. It was fairly beat up so I gave it to ding repair dude, Jimmy Robertson to restore. Jimmy sanded the board, filled the dents and dings and re-glossed the bottom. It came out tight!
I rode it this morning, waves were high-tidy with wind on it, but fun enough. It’s really unique riding Skip’s rails. They hook up and trim high. They are not forgiving though and don’t allow for errors. This board is super fast and connected sections all the way to the beach.
This is an interesting board because as a tri-fin you can square off the bottom and head for the lip, but what to do when you get there? I actually did end up going almost vertical on one wave, you have to coast and slide back down. It does a nice craving roundhouse cutback if you use the swing weight properly.
But these boards aren’t for lippers goshdarnit, they are about speed, trim and flow.
6’10” x 21 1/2″ wide x 3″ thick.

I think I might have handsanded this board for Kenny back in the 80s when I first started working at Moonlight. Marko the glosser would always reject my handsands and make me red-do the foil on the fins before he would gloss them. I think I made about a $1 hour the first summer I worked at the factory.

J.P.

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By Surfy SurfyNovember 11, 2010March 26, 20215 Comments

80's egg Moon Frog skip frye