Has anyone found that board that you just love,the one that does everything you ask of it!
I had a keeper a couple years back and traded it,big mistake!Well many boards later I have found a KEEPER
Sorry boys wrong forum 
Here's my keeper.. 
.. The original 14' Glide.
Even though the new one is better.. and faster.. The old one is a classic and I never want to sell it..
DJ
Why wrong forum?
I can think of at least half a dozen boards I wish I had kept over the years. First up was a seven foot Wayne Lynch single fin round pin, closely followed by a Pat Morgan keel fish. Then there was a magic bonzer with mammoth double barrell concave running right out through the tail by local shaper Dave Lucas and more recently, two days ago in fact, I spotted an old quad fish shaped by Ant Stephens that I sold off a couple of years ago when I got into stand up. Have still got a couple of keepers stashed in the rafters of the shed including my current short board which actually started life as a kneeboard. As far as SUP go's, I wish I had kept the Uberfish cos the whole family could paddle it and that made the missus happy.
Cheers
Sparx
it's probably not going to be the same with SUP as so many are mass-produced if you really want that board again you can just go get one, even on the second hand market. For me the 9'3 Naish was pretty good. But I think my current 8'8 LSD will be a keeper, can't see me ever getting rid of that one.
I just picked up a bruised and battered 10'6 NSP, I think that will be a keeper too as anyone can paddle it and with the marks already all over it it's a great family and friends board.
Yeh Sparx's it was meant to be posted in the LB forum but as sup is a few years old now I guess some of you will run with it.
Keep Ripping
My 6'2 Skye Bourton, my 6'2 Jason Hoko (RIP mate), my 6'5 Simon Anderson that he handshaped while I watched. All boards I shaped myself except for the 1st one that I sold to a mate. I have them all. Always will.
Boards I wish I kept. My 1st SUP a custom DMS 10' PU SUP I sold to my brother in law, I may still buy this back. My 6'0 Murray Bourton step deck fish, gave that to my brother in law also. My 6'2 Yorky, 6'3 Dahlberg. All customs. My Volane Classic Mal 9'5 Log, sold that one to pay for my brothers wedding in Bali.
Good boards are not that easy to find, keep them if you can.
never letting this one go 10 x 29 hand shaped by Blane. Bit heavy but works so well in solid waves
Like Sparx the keel twin fin fish by Pat Morgan/Strapper was a work of art, magnificent for Backhand Radical re-entrys (What people used to do before Airs!!). I should also extoll the virtues of my Wayne Lynch 7'1" Pintail (bought from Lorne Surf Shop) with a yellow and green arrows paint job, that board was magical. (Victorian's had a right of board owning passage.) I wish I was forty years younger!! I won't mention the Donny Allcroft (Ripcurl), Kym Thompson, (Klemm Bell), Terry Fitzgerald (Hot Buttered) and most importantly the Purple Wavetight!!! All boards are keepers, we are what's passed on.....
I can think of two boards I had around 1980 that I wish I'd kept. An MR he shaped and rode and glassed by Mick Adam and a 5'11" custom by Peter Mccabe (tradewinds)
My 12ft Starboard Big Easy that I have creased twice in the bigger stuff is definitely a keeper. Such a fun board to surf in any size.
My Mark Plater 5'10" thruster with black and grey paint job and 4 channels was simply awesome. SUP wise Im saying the board I have now (12'6 Fanatic and 9'5 Starboard WP).
). I should also extoll the virtues of my Wayne Lynch 7'1" Pintail (bought from Lorne Surf Shop) with a yellow and green arrows paint job, that board was magical. (Victorian's had a right of board owning passage.) I wish I was forty years younger!! I won't mention the Donny Allcroft (Ripcurl), Kym Thompson, (Klemm Bell), Terry Fitzgerald (Hot Buttered) and most importantly the Purple Wavetight!!! All boards are keepers, we are what's passed on.....
One last treasure from the shed.
Definite keeper!!
This is a Feral fish shaped by local guru Dave Lucas. Dave shaped every board I ever owned between nineteen eighty and ninety eight, absolute freakin genius but little known outside of this particular neck of the woods. Had this one shaped cos I was over the whole rockered out potato chip thing and the way those boards could make a session in average surf an absolute misery. Had been watching a lot of Andrew Kidmans Litmus and thought Deryk Hynd looked like he was having an absolute blast on those Skip Frye fishes. Just said to Dave, "go nuts, use your imagination" What is also interesting is that this board pre dates the whole quad fish, fishy revival by a considerable amount of time and is kind of a left field approach. The design on the bottom was a permanent fixture on every board Dave made for me, so if you see one around chances are it was mine once. It came off an album cover by a band called the British Beat that we were big into back in the day. Turns out this was the last board Dave would make after a life time of shaping thumped him in the health department.
To cut a long story short....Its a keeper.
In action
Cheers
Sparx
HOLY COW.....Batman!!!!
Three hundred bucks!!!! Theres gold in that thar shed.
Nah, still a keeper, too many memories.
Cheers
Sparx
The McT Fireball with flame spray in the middle is the board I was referring to in my earlier post,two years on I have the new keeper
