This year will mark our 40th Annual Victoria Skimboards contest at Aliso Beach. The extra surface area allowed us to plane a lot further across the water, hit the waves earlier and with larger size, and tube riding the shorebreak became far more possible. We built the first foam cores skimboards on the market in 1980 and that, as they say, really changed the sport.įoam boards could be as much as 30% larger, without being too heavy. We use wood stringers at first but quickly abandoned them, as they were too ineffective at holding the foam in the correct curve for glassing. We were off! In 1980 we introduced the first foam core skimboards, much like standard surfboard construction. To make a long story short, we made a batch, marched down to Hobie Sports in Dana Point and sold them, and were told to expect a reorder soon. We were getting resin on the floors too often when a couple artists down the street offered us a small garage to work in for a very modest rent. That lasted until the neighbor began complaining about the smells but by then we were ready to move to our first shop in Laguna Canyon at 2935. It appears that styrene vapors can go thru wall. Please allow an order processing time of 5 to 10 business days before shipping. It was upstairs and within moments the guy from downstairs was upstairs and in our face about being asphyxiated by resin fumes. Victoria Skimboards Store Custom Ultra 409.00 505.00 Select options Custom Poly 525.00 780.00 Select options Custom Bigfoot 605.00 685.00 Select options Lead time: Manufacturing the perfect custom board for you takes time. We got the OK from our boss, Jay” Sparky” Longley, to work part time and right away went out and bought some plywood and fiber glassing materials and set to making boards in Pete’s N. My friend Peter Prietto got me a job working for Rainbow Sandals and I was working there when Pete and I began talking about maybe actually finally doing something with skimboards. Right away I learned to appreciate hard labor. Ha!īack to Laguna and some construction jobs, working for contractors, mostly digging and hauling materials up steep slopes for patios and remodels. They just didn’t think of Stanford students as being from the farm. I learned that Stanford was the worst school to come from if I wanted to get into Davis.
There were only 12 schools in the US and my odds, as in grades, were not good. During college, I was aiming for veterinary medicine until getting derailed shortly after graduation. We beach rats, or groms as they called us, talked about making boards all thru our teenage years. When we started Victoria Skimboards in 1976, we changed it to skimboarding, because we felt it was a more positive description. Shipping cost will be calculated in your cart.Our sport was called skidboarding when I was growing up.
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*Skimboards DO NOT qualify for free shipping. The strong birch core will take anything you throw at it, and the hand made art guarantees each board to be one of a kind.įinish: Hand painted art finish with gloss The ultimate board for learning the basics, the Woody will slide long distances along the shoreline while letting you bash small waves. Suitability for children Most children, of course, will prefer to go the sandy beach where they can scamper or skimboard. Hand built in the U.S.A for the past forty years, the woody has stood the test of time. Hand painted and made in the US of A! This is our most popular skimboard. Minimal rocker lets the Victoria Woody glide across flat sand, but you can ride waves too. A birch core wrapped in polyester resin makes for a durable, long-lasting board. The most classic skim around, not to mention versatile.
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