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OG-AZN · Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: Location: Norcal

bgreen's recent posts got me thinking about this: Anyone remember the "El Paipo" bodyboard that was sold around the late 70's - early 80's? Shaped kinda like the fiberglass boards, but made of bodyboard foam w/ built in handle & super tall "reverse" rails. There may have been ads in the surf mags for this board. I remember a friend from "small kid days" who had one. I also remember the board didn't work well prone but we had more luck on it kneeriding and even standing up. Did any of those boards or its advertising material survive?

bgreen · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Qld. Oz

Og-Azn,
Do a search for "Newport & El Paipo for sale + epoxy surfboardz". Birdie was trying to sell one in July. There was an el-paipo ad posted on the site - I think it was one of the paipo trail ads. can't recall who posted it.

The riding of paipo at the Wedge is a story that would be worth hearing.

Bob

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OG-AZN · Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: Location: Norcal

Thanks, but that wasn't what I was looking for. The board in question was a short lived competitor of the Boogie Board - made of the same materials. I assume it was made by the same co. that made the fiberglass "el paipos", like the ones posted for sale.

Uncle Grumpy · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: Location: San Clemente

This the one?

OG-AZN · Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: Location: Norcal

Not that one either, although the outline of the dished part of the board in the ad looks like the old soft board. The deck & bottom of the soft board were both flat too. I think the board I'm looking for also had a stringer, which was probably one of the first examples of this on a bodyboard.

Nels · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:55 pm Post subject:

I remember the ads for those boards. I believe they came at the very end of El Paipo, after the ad Uncle Grumpy posted. A guy named Bud Hulst was the one behind El Paipo if I recall...and maybe on Swaylock's years ago somebody wrote that a guy with that name ran some surf camp on Todos Santos island back years ago.

The ad - I recall only one clearly- probably ran in one of the small surf magazines, maybe U.S. Surf (out of Florida) or the California based "third" mag...Breakout? I think the ad rates were too high in Er and Ing. Possibly an early bodyboarding mag might have had one. I probably have one stashed in a storage box somewhere but God only knows where and how long it would take to find.

ted · Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: Location: Hawaii, Big Island

Hmm. I think I had one of these boards. The deck and bottom were blue bodyboard material; The board was about 3 inches thick with hard reverse rails all around, twin yellow skegs secured by metal screws through the deck, and a plastic encased rope handle across the nose.

Man, could that thing pearl! 60 to zero and flying out the front before you knew what happened. I eventually recut the nose to make "up" rails for the first foot or so.

OG-AZN · Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: Location: Norcal

That's the board alright. I remember my friends and I thinking that the board looked so cool compared to the Boogies of the time - must be the best right? We were all pretty disappointed when we rode it though. Still, it's an interesting piece of paipo - bodyboard cross over history.

ted · Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: Location: Hawaii, Big Island

Very cool looking, but nearly useless. I would have thrown it out sooner if it hadn't represented cold hard cash. I did give it to some poor kid who didn't know any better.

georgep · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts:

"Rails shaped to carve magic in every wave. A bonded-in fiberglass stringer for power..."

I think that's the beginning of the description that came with that board. I got one over 20 years ago. All my friends had boogie boards, I was the only one with this odd-looking thing, but spent many happy hours with it nonetheless.