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So what on Earth is this thing? BIC Marine...

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Created by Ancientglen > 9 months ago, 26 Sep 2013
Ancientglen
36 posts
26 Sep 2013 8:32PM
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This is the 4th 'freebie' board, and probably the last, (well according to my wife anyway... )

It's 12'4" long, 25" wide and 7" thick where I can measure trough the centre fin box. It seems to be a plastic outer, but there's one small ding, and it looks like it might even be surfboard foam inside. The others I've got have all been windsurfers, but where does this monster fit into the gene pool?

Now this one might be big enough to SUP...

Cheers, Glen.

Mark _australia
WA, 22723 posts
26 Sep 2013 8:49PM
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Looks like a BiC
So it is 35000 biro's

decrepit
WA, 12351 posts
26 Sep 2013 8:50PM
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Looks a bit like a tyransea clubman, but it's a long time since I've seen one, so probably isn't

lotofwind
NSW, 6451 posts
26 Sep 2013 10:52PM
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Looks like a wing off an aeroplane built by the Wright brothers?????

greenleader
QLD, 5283 posts
26 Sep 2013 11:08PM
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bic 250, cheap blowmoulded (heavy) version of the original dufour wing that boinged through chop like a battery operated vibrator. most owners did their 7th, 11th and 16th vertebrae whilst loading board onto roof racks. now extensively used for seawall construction in dubai.
oh yeah mid eighties.

greenleader
QLD, 5283 posts
26 Sep 2013 11:17PM
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decrepit said..

Looks a bit like a tyransea clubman, but it's a long time since I've seen one, so probably isn't


tyronsea falcon/360 or windrush clubman decrep? memory fading...fadin...fadi...fad...fa...f...

deejay8204
QLD, 557 posts
27 Sep 2013 8:28AM
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greenleader said..

bic 250, cheap blowmoulded (heavy) version of the original dufour wing that boinged through chop like a battery operated vibrator.


yep a BIC 250, I have a mate who sails one.

Stuthepirate
SA, 3590 posts
27 Sep 2013 10:16AM
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Its definitely a Bic




They stopped making them after the Exxon Valdez accident.

jusavina
QLD, 1469 posts
27 Sep 2013 11:28AM
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Geez!

I learnt windsurfing on this board with a 4m as heavy at a current 12m and the boom you were attaching with a rope on the mast.

I remember how hard it was to jibe... and how hard I had to pull it on the beach

Indeed a Bic 250!

decrepit
WA, 12351 posts
27 Sep 2013 12:11PM
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greenleader said..

decrepit said..

Looks a bit like a tyransea clubman, but it's a long time since I've seen one, so probably isn't


tyronsea falcon/360 or windrush clubman decrep? memory fading...fadin...fadi...fad...fa...f...


And that's not the only thing!!!!
I think I was thinking of the windrush or was I?

sboardcrazy
NSW, 8069 posts
27 Sep 2013 2:59PM
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I didn't think it was dufour wing..I learnt on one of those and felt it looked nicer than that.. I remember wedging my front foot against the mast to prevent being catapulted when the wind hit 12kts

Cripes that's Fishing Point in the background.. Boy it looks a lot different these days! Not many houses back then..

Ancientglen
36 posts
27 Sep 2013 8:20PM
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Thanks for the information people!

Looks like its 'future' is on Ephraim Island on the Gold Coast, in my daughter and son in law's garage. The plan is to buy lifejackets for the grandkids, a couple of cheap paddles for anyone (like me) silly enough to throw a leg over it, and take the little ones for rides around the island.

Cheers, Glen.

paddymac
WA, 937 posts
27 Sep 2013 9:12PM
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decrepit said..
I think I was thinking of the windrush or was I?

That was my first thought too Decrepit, it's the sticker and the tail... vey similar

greenleader
QLD, 5283 posts
28 Sep 2013 12:28AM
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sboardcrazy said..

I didn't think it was dufour wing..I learnt on one of those and felt it looked nicer than that.. I remember wedging my front foot against the mast to prevent being catapulted when the wind hit 12kts

Cripes that's Fishing Point in the background.. Boy it looks a lot different these days! Not many houses back then..


"at last" a sexy bikini photo of sue! woo hoo! in wettie boots too!

sboardcrazy
NSW, 8069 posts
28 Sep 2013 12:40PM
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If only I realised how good I looked back in those days.. I'd kill to have a body like that now..

neilpete
WA, 184 posts
28 Sep 2013 9:32PM
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Do not get fooled greenleader.
This might be a painting....

sboardcrazy
NSW, 8069 posts
29 Sep 2013 8:43AM
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neilpete said..

Do not get fooled greenleader.
This might be a painting....


If it was a painting I'd look a lot better than that! Much cheaper than plastic surgery..

gavnwend
WA, 1367 posts
1 Oct 2013 8:52PM
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Probably a little fanger back in those days but really its looks like my mothers ironing board from the 80s !

WINDSURFnSNOW
NSW, 1612 posts
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2 Oct 2013 8:06PM
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Good memories for me there. The BIC 250 was the board I learnt on. Got along nicely in the light stuff.

stehsegler
WA, 3477 posts
2 Oct 2013 6:37PM
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yup... my first board too. Belonged to my uncle before but he build himself a catamaran instead. ah, those were the days. When 20 knts was considered a storm and harnesses where made of seat belts.

pierrec45
NSW, 2005 posts
3 Oct 2013 11:47AM
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Bic & Dufour were two different things, til they merged (1980?). I think the two quite different products went on for a couple of years.

Dufour was a flatish hard plastic board, round-hollow at the back with sharp edges.


Bic models were the large full plastic-ish thing you brought out in this thread.

If I recall - me was young - both had nearly untieable booms, and certainly worse even than the Windsurfer.

Both was a bit of a fugly...

JayBee
NSW, 714 posts
3 Oct 2013 12:33PM
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pierrec45 said..
Bic & Dufour were two different things, til they merged (1980?). I think the two quite different products went on for a couple of years.
Dufour was a flatish hard plastic board, round-hollow at the back with sharp edges. Bic models were the large full plastic-ish thing you brought out in this thread. If I recall - me was young - both had nearly untieable booms, and certainly worse even than the Windsurfer. Both was a bit of a fugly...



Quite right Pierre. Bic had a "Bic Swing" too which was the Dufour Wing, but if I remember correctly, it didnt have the same edging at the seam (which I thought was usually red - I havent seen a blue one like this pic), and the centreboard "almost" retracted.
The 250 was the bread and butter of windsurfing schools everywhere because it was practially indestructible. A few years later Bic released their range of music boards - Bebop, Electric Rock, Jazz, Allegro, Hard Rock, Calypso etc. Bamba (Course racing board) was a few years later again.

They were the good old days.

fjdoug
ACT, 548 posts
3 Oct 2013 5:08PM
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- both had nearly untieable booms, and certainly worse even than the Windsurfer.


yep, rather than tie-on they had a plastic toggle which made rigging easy but the boom would swing freely from shoulder to waist.

fjdoug
ACT, 548 posts
3 Oct 2013 5:13PM
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[b] (which I thought was usually red - I havent seen a blue one like this pic)


i think the black ones pre-date the red ones.

micksmith
VIC, 1696 posts
3 Oct 2013 7:19PM
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JayBee said..
pierrec45 said..

Bic & Dufour were two different things, til they merged (1980?). I think the two quite different products went on for a couple of years.

Dufour was a flatish hard plastic board, round-hollow at the back with sharp edges. Bic models were the large full plastic-ish thing you brought out in this thread. If I recall - me was young - both had nearly untieable booms, and certainly worse even than the Windsurfer. Both was a bit of a fugly...


Quite right Pierre. Bic had a "Bic Swing" too which was the Dufour Wing, but if I remember correctly, it didnt have the same edging at the seam (which I thought was usually red - I havent seen a blue one like this pic), and the centreboard "almost" retracted.

The 250 was the bread and butter of windsurfing schools everywhere because it was practially indestructible. A few years later Bic released their range of music boards - Bebop, Electric Rock, Jazz, Allegro, Hard Rock, Calypso etc. Bamba (Course racing board) was a few years later again.

They were the good old days.


Don't forget the Astro and prior to that the 750 Ken Winner special, what a flyer



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