Someone found this Bob White under the Old Lifeguard station in Virginia Beach. As you can see by the original picture it was trashed. Thirteen inches of the nose was missing. Huge chunks were missing out of the sides and the glass was basically peeled all the way down top and bottom like a banana. When the kid brought it to us we told him it was a total loss and it was. It would have cost way too much to restore the thing to even be able to use it. The kid asked us to throw it away for him in our dumpster and I did just that but then started to think that someday we might get another Bob White that we can trade parts and maybe get a little use out of the relic. So up in the attic it went. About five years later I pulled it out thinking I should throw it away but the guys at the shop wanted the challenge so a few hundred man hours later she turned into a board anyone would be proud to own.
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2 Comments
Trash to treasure. Sometimes it is worth hanging
onto something that should have been thrown out long ago.
It brings warm fuzzy feelings to my soul to see an old Bob White Surfboard in rehab and preservation. I remember Bob White’s innovations from the late 60s and his wild and crazy ways. The current descendant of Bob White Surfboards (it is a big box not-so-alternative surfboard company) pales in comparison.