New Harbour Model - coming this Spring...

Harbour is making a few new models...the Super Revolver is coming to the Beach House this spring.

Super Revolver template

Super Revolver NEW!  We have taken the Spherical Revolver to another level with this shape. A two plus one set-up with more rocker, tunnels next to the fins, slight mid board concave, and a bit wider there too. Truly a stunning difference, this board is really alive!



Sketch lam...on the new models



Bing and Jacobs Surfboards at Sacred Craft 2011

Sacred Craft 2011 is going on as we speak...Bing and Jacobs Surfboard shaper Matt Calvani is there doing what he does best...shaping.  Here's a super cool mentor/apprentice photo of Matt shaping a Bing Pipeliner with Bing Copeland looking on.

Mal-Mar Surfboards...a little bit of Island Beach, NJ history.

I  came across a forum posting looking for information about a 1960s surfboard, for sale in New Jersey...the label was "Mal-Mar Surfboards".  I remember talking with "Balsa" Bill Yerkes a few years back about locally made surfboards from the 1960s...this one rang a bell.  I remember him telling me that "Mal Mar" meant "bad ocean" or "sea sickness"...not so cool on a surfboard.   I contacted him and here's what he had to say...

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Hi Eric,
It was Johnny Mara and Joe Malozzi. They summered in Lavallette. Johnny had been a lifeguard. Don't
know about Joe.  They started out with homemade boards and were weekend surfers. They surfed with Charlie Keller, Jimmy Crecca, Jack Homer, Richie Baron, the Mrozak brothers (Archie and Bobby), and a couple of other brothers who's name I forgot.

They were all out the first day I paddled out in Lavallette on my homeade board in 1962. Actually I had surfed on a neighbor's 8' Aquaplane in the late fifties but it was hard to stand on. Flat with no fin. I had come back from California in 1961 and we built a board that winter.

In 1964 or '65 Johnny and Joe started making boards under the Mal Mar label in North Jersey somewhere. Probably in their garage or basement. They didn't make many. A friend of mine had one. And Bobby Ekstrom won the Atlantic States in Seaside the first year (1964?) on one of their first homemade no label models. I had almost bought the board but bought a custom Keller instead.
I remember they had one that said "Playboy" on it. Don't know if it said Mal Mar too. Their first
boards didn't have a label. That's true of most of the homemade's from that era.

Last time I saw them was at Charlie Keller's funeral. 1996

Bill
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Bill is a very integral part of our local surfing history...and a really nice guy as well.  Through the 1960s, from Point Pleasant to Seaside Park...Balsa Bill has some serious knowledge!  You can check out his 60s surf film, "The Summer of '67" at the shop.

Yesterday, the board we're talking about came into the Beach House.  A real nice guy from Long Island (Xavier) came in and had just picked it up...small world.  I took the shots below and wanted to share the story.

Xavier with his new stick...

Real nice condition Tyler 305 that came into the shop...

This weekend, a 9'6" Tyler 305 made it's way into the shop...For Sale.  It's in real nice condition and waiting to find a good home...need more details, call the shop 732-714-8566.

Deck shot...


 

Bottom shot...

fin.

From Tyler's site:
The 305 Model is the new millennium Zeke, designed by Tyler and his father. It has a slight concave and flatter nose to enhance noseriding and slight tail rocker to improve turns.

9’2″ to 10’0″
Nose 19 1/4″, Tail 16″
Width 23 1/2″ Thickness: 3 1/8″
Soft 50/50 rails and slight nose concave
Stringer 5/16″ Bass single
6x10oz Volan Deck, 10oz Bottom

laminate.

Old School Swap Meet - Sunday April 10th...be there.

It's that time of year again...actually we're running things a month or so earlier than usual.  It's been a long, cold winter and it's time for surfboards and a good time!  Pat and I started this tradition 5 years ago and it picks up steam each year...we'll get 100 plus boards out if front, around the side and in back of the shop.  We attract people from Cape May to Brooklyn and as far as Virginia Beach and Boston...it's a really cool event that I look forward to every Spring and Fall.  The focus is on "Vintage" riders from the 60s, 70s and 80s...lately we've extended things to include modern day longboards, alternative and solution boards as well.  We'll get some classic skateboards and some surfing memorabilia from time to time.  It attracts all types from  collectors, surfers, long-time members of the surfing community and people that just love the surf culture.  We'll have some food and drink...Harry usually brings the coffee and we roll out the BBQ later in the day.

It's different than other "Board Swaps" because we just supply the place and the atmosphere for the event to happen.  We don't take any money or force you to take store credit for what you've sold.  It's another event that we, at the Beach House put together to continue to build a Surfing Community in our neck of the woods...that's what it's all about; surf culture.

Neck deep in repairs...lots of boards coming in for fixing.

My indoor surfboard repair facility has been upgraded...full on fluorescent lights installed through the whole space as well as electrical outlets all over!  No more running extension cords and blowing fuses...Herman is the man!

With the economy being what it is, board repairs are coming out of the woodwork.  Everything from tiny rail dings to full on restorations.  I've seen more boards in the past 2 months than I had most of last year...I love the work but can't wait to get caught up.  Even better...I can't wait to get outside, much better for the lungs.  If you've got boards that need to be repaired, bring em in...here's a quick glimpse at my new room.  Enjoy your day!

my tools...and a Campbell Brother's Bonzer

Duke Kahanamoku...interviewed by Bruce Brown.

I came across this short interview of Duke by Bruce Brown...classic.  Both of these guys have effected surfing in ways that can never be measured.  Duke for his Aloha and his surfing skills and Bruce Brown for the Endless Summer.

6 month old Harbour Revolver...came in this weekend - for sale

A real nice, like new condition Harbour Revolver came into the shop this weekend.  Ridden only a handfull of times...7'4" single fin.  Light grey resin tint top & bottom - $550  ***SOLD***


HP1 fin.



deck shot...

rocker shot.

bottom shot.

A classic Greg Noll that found it's way into the shop -For Sale.

This 9'9" Classic Greg Noll found it's way into the shop a little while ago.  Vintage early to mid 1960’s Greg Noll stock pig shape in real nice condition. Glassed on single fin with Greg Noll lam and trademark chopstick inside the fin...a bit hard to see, but they are there!  Red resin panels top & bottom, 3/4 inch redwood stringer with layered wood tailblock...deck and bottom are in real nice condition and all original.   "Greg Noll" in lam is faded out, but still there.  Cool piece for hangin or riding...$750   SOLD


chopstick & lam in fin...hard to see but still there.



lam

another deck shot



deck



collage...

Fin...top view

tailblock & stringer

My 1st Surfboard

My 1st board was a mid 70's - 6' Michaels Fremont single fin...double ender. My Dad bought it for $50 from a buddy in 1979...it hangs on the ceiling of my shop. Learned to surf that summer at Nauset Beach in Orleans, Cape Cod...down on the south end past the guards. My pops took myself and a buddy to Jasper's Surf Shop and we rented wetsuits for the 59 degree water...no leashes, didn't know what one was. After swiming a whole lot in the cold(er) water, we went back to Jaspers and he drilled a hole in the fin and put on a leash and we rented a couple of wetsuits. That was the coolest summer...one I will always remember.

3 or 4 years ago I had it in the window at the shop for display...got an early morning message from a guy claiming he shaped the board. Met up with him later and found out it was Mickey Fremont...now a lawyer in Encinitas, CA. He was in the area for a wedding and was trying to track down some of his old boards.  He grew up in NYC and he and a buddy shaped boards on the 3rd floor of his buddy's parents department store.  He hung in the shop that morning and shared stories of shaping boards in the 70s and growing up in NYC.  Turns out mine was glassed at the famed Channin Glass Factory in Encinitas...he could tell by the pinlines  He wanted to buy the board, but I wouldn't let it go...Mickey appreciated that someone wanted it as much as he did.  Meeting Mickey was way cool...a real nice guy and a piece of surf history.