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Oxbow World Longboard Tour ramps up for San Onofre
Oxbow WLT
ASP World Longboard Tour Event #2
San Onofre, San Diego California
4 - 9 November 2008
Final Leg of the Oxbow World Longboard Tour: San Onofre
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 14 October, 2008 : - - From November 5th to 9th this year, the only Oxbow World Longboard Tour event in America will take place in San Clemente, CA. This surfing competition will draw the world's 48 best longboarders to clash in the waves of San Onofre. San Onofre beach is a part of the history of California.
People started to surf the break "Old Man's" back in the 1920s. From the days of redwood boards right up to epoxy, “SanO” has always been THE Californian beach and has welcomed most all the prestigious surf legends, such as Duke Kahanamoku, Dale Velzy, "Da Bull" Greg Noll, and many more.
San Onofre State Beach Park, created by Presidential decree in 1971, has five and a half miles of coastline, and is among the top five most-visited state parks in California, with more than 2 million visitors a year. A beautiful place, a prestigious beach, a spiritual experience -- these are the reasons that drove the Oxbow brand to celebrate longboarding by crowning the 2008 World Longboarding Champion in San Onofre, California.
This week, we present you the competitors list qualified for the main event. The last 4 surfers will be qualified from the trials.
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The Mule
Save The Work For The Waves
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Surfboard Transport System
It's absolutely amazing the amount of women who've gotten into longboarding, and the style they bring to the sport is a pleaure to watch. Banz sent us over a great You Tube clip, definately worth checking out: Click here to check out some good surfing!!
From Joe Tabler's Surfblurb:
Aloha,
From Bill Simon, Cape May, NJ: I was hoping you could pass this along, I am in a position that forces me to sell off my collection to try to keep my home for my wife and I and our 7 children . I can be reached at surfersimo@aol.com or (609 705 5172) est.
His list follows below.... One of the stellar items: a Matt Kivlin board:
New Webcam up on the Web Site!!
That's right, we have a live streaming Cam up on the site, thanks to Luke over at the the Long Beach Surf Shop. No you don't have to pay $30.00 a month to look at it. Just a great example of a surf shop supporting surfers. When surf shops support us surfers, us surfers should support their shops!! The water is starting to cool down and the Long Beach Surf Shop is THE #1 SOURCE OF WETSUITS ON LONG ISLAND!!
Also, just in.....
New Firewires-Taj Models and Quadfish,also Flexfires, Alternators, Futuras, and Firewire Longboards
JUST ARRIVED! New Rusty Horny Toad EPS Quad fins---M10 EPS Tri's and Quads, great shapes, great price!!
Make sure you give the shop a call 516 431 5431, visit the website,
Or drop by the shop: 70 w Park Ave, Long Beach,NY
New boards and wetsuits arriving weekly!!
Bill Simon's boards for sale:
1920's 5' long by 16" wide and 3/4" thick with shaped bottom rail spruce Belly Board with original painted stripes and varnish made for the Chelsea Hotel in Atlantic City by visiting Hawaiians while employed at the Steel Pier doing High Diving Shows ( the High Diving Hawaiians) only one known to have survived and in very presentable condition $1500
1951 9'2" Matt Kivlin Scarfed nose Balsa bought used in Hawaii in the winter of 52 /53 and brought back to Cape May New Jersey in 1956. I purchased it from the original owner in 1999 and just this past August I spoke with Matt Kivlin and have email correspondence to back this up most likely made by Matt Kivlin after he veiwed pictures of it and descriptions of the construction. This was completely by surprise I had actually contacted him about a different board, never the less this is what he said and wrote me in an email and said
In 1951 when I was 22 I took some time off from school and went to Hawaii with about 30 or
more balsa blanks that I intended to build and sell. I set up shop at Waikiki and they sold quite well. The "Malibu board" was quite desirable. I built myself one that I gave to Rabbit Kekai when I went back to the mainland. Rabbit still talks about that board 57 years later. It is possible that your board is one of those that I built, but I have no way of verifying it. A board over 50 years old could have had a lot of repairs. The deck plan on your board is close to old photos of the time. Anyway, the vintage of your board is about the right time and place and probably was one of mine.
Best of luck.....................Matt
The last Matt Kivlin to sell was a Balsa that he made for the surfrider charity Auction several years ago and it sold for $45K and the only private sale I know of was 6 years ago and the board sold for $25k and was not in much better condition.
$18k
Finally a bit more on the Kivlin board's history:
This Board was bought used on the beach in waikiki in 1953 in front of fort derussey by a coastguards men who brought it back to cape may New Jersey when he was transferred in 1956 he said he was told it was a few years old at that point when he bought it in 1953 the board is 9' 2" long 3 1/2" thick and has a scarfed nose the rails are like an old plank up turned bottom like 90 / 10 but then transition into 50 / 50 alittle before the scarfing to the rest of the nose and it has a lot of rocker on the top and bottom
1956 9' 8" Velzy / Jacobs foam pintail it has a 1 1/2" balsa stringer and mahogany fin and original all blue pigment it has a hole drilled through the fin and the nose is open but a easy repair condition 7.5 $600
1961 12' Joe Quigg Tandem board full orange pigment possibly not original but definitely from the early 60's
has small logo near tail and two 1/4" stringers are visible under pigment and they start at tail about 8" apart and run toward nose to end up with 1" in between there are a few old small repaired dings and some minor chips but the foam looks like new underneath ,upon speaking to Joe Quigg he said he doesn't remember making more than a few out of foam and felt that the color had been added but that if taken off it would not hurt the value of this extremely rare piece. A restored 10'10 " quigg sold in 2005 for $5,600 and that was a complete re due of a paddle board solid condition 8 $4500
