Vintage Hawaiian Islands surf auction posts record sales
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Vintage Hawaiian Isles surf auction posts record sales
Advertiser Staff
The 4th biennial Quiksilveredition Hawaiian Islands Vintage Surf
Auction posted $650,000 in sales - a record - on Saturday at the
Blaisdell.
A portion of the sales will be donated to the Outrigger Duke
Kahanamoku Foundation Scholarship Fund.
The previous auction, held in 2005, brought in more than $300,000.
Vintage surfboards, both made of foam and wood, were the top
performers, exceeded pre-auction estimates.
The 11-foot Buzzy Trent model "Surfboards Hawaii" elephant gun shaped
by Dick Brewer went for $33,000 - more than double its pre-auction
estimate of $15,000.
"With only three of these boards known to be in existence, this was
the equivalent of a car collector coming across a special edition
handmade Ferrari," said event producer Randy Rarick, in a news
release.
An original, 5-foot redwood "Alaia" board from 1985 sold for $27,000.
In all, the six wooden boards in the auction fetched in excess of
$100,000.
"While many of the foam boards were collectible because of their
notable shapers and riders, the wooden boards are highly desirable
purely because of their historic significance," Rarick said. "They are
true artifacts."
Attending the auction were four-time world champion Mark Richards,
Pipeline Masters champions Gerry Lopez and Rory Russell, and Terry
"The Sultan of Speed" Fitzgerald of Australia.
Hundreds of people turned out for Friday's "Antique Road Show"-style
appraisal.
One major find was a Pat Curren balsa surfboard from the late 1950s,
brought in by retired Hawaiian Airlines pilot Mel Souza, who flew the
airlines' last DC3. The surfboard sold for $7,500 in Saturday's
auction.
Rarick said it's too early to know if he'll be prepared to host
another auction in two year's time, but promised he will never say
"never."
To view all final results from the auction, visit
www.hawaiiansurfauction.com.
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Neal Miyake
> http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Jul/25/br/br2758136409...
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> Vintage Hawaiian Isles surf auction posts record sales...
Went to the show on Saturday. Talked story at length with
cinematographer Dick Hoole. Met Da Bull. Asked Randy about whether the
rumor was true. Maybe the big sales may have changed his mind. Will
post some pics later, including some good paipo/belly/kneeboard pics
for Rod.
neo
John
'the Genius' Philip's shaping room a few months ago and almost talked
myself out of a marriage (I covet his wood work and he had several of
the wooden boards available from the movie).
John (in Cardiff by the Sea)
Tony Malasadas
> rumor was true.
>
Which "rumor"? You mean the one about Rarick's dishonest
practice of listing boards as "pristine", when they're actually
restored/disguised?
Not a rumor. It's fact.
--x--
Tony
rodndtube
Muchas gracias, neo.