Balsa Future Primitive 12 footer from the year 2000
Here's the second Power surfboards Future Primitive ever built, and the one I rode the most. It was built in the year 2000 in the old 'Radio 1XX Beach Bus'. . which was a wreck of a bus with corrugated iron walls parked where we lived on unused industrial land a few hundred metres from the beach at Omanu, Mount Maunganui. The old red bus was the Power Surfboard factory for a couple of years. .. we built the first Dragonboard in there too.Anyway the board is 12 feet long, two inches thick, and 23 wide, with lovely flex . . . it's hollow balsa wood with dynel cloth on the deck and rayon with metallic gold suns on the bottom. Graphite coated rails and fin. It was and is an incredibly capable board which could hang and surf with the shortboards on peaks which the mals couldn't handle, and which scattered the mals like leaves before the storm when the surf got big, ragged and weird.She's now in the Mount Surf Museum, for sale actually along with the Dragonboard, X-15, and a bunch of Miki Dora's booty.
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Balsa Future Primitive