And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tom Blake carved a strake in the bottom. Kind of a short semi-keel. From that evolved the fin. The hot curl was others copying Blake's narrowing of the tail. The paipo was for commoners - the everyman board. The olo was for lesser nobility.
Skip Frye was instrumental. He took a template like the Velzy but shortened it quite a bit. George Greenough really kicked the short board era into high gear.
My brother had a board just like the Greg 'The Bull' Noll shown here. Same color too. Weighed about fifty lbs, what a beast. But rock solid.
After 55 years now I'm back to the longboard.
ReplyDeleteMy family live in Hawaii in the last 50's. I went surfing only a few times. I guess that we used a "Pig."
ReplyDeleteTom Blake carved a strake in the bottom. Kind of a short semi-keel. From that evolved the fin. The hot curl was others copying Blake's narrowing of the tail.
ReplyDeleteThe paipo was for commoners - the everyman board. The olo was for lesser nobility.
Skip Frye was instrumental. He took a template like the Velzy but shortened it quite a bit.
George Greenough really kicked the short board era into high gear.
My brother had a board just like the Greg 'The Bull' Noll shown here. Same color too. Weighed about fifty lbs, what a beast. But rock solid.