Late last night I was casing the internets as usual, fulfilling my daily surfboard lust fetish. Admittedly, I voraciously consume surfboard sites visually. I am obsessed with different kinds of surfboards. I research surfboard shapes and shapers. It’s not healthy. Marcia just shakes her head. Two weeks ago it was Alaias, last week it was Liddles and logs. This week it’s Skip Frye fishes and eagles.
I got the sly idea to create a google alert that notifies me every time a ’skip frye’ surfboard comes up for sale on ebay or craiglist. fat chance. and I found another site that had what looked like a ton of Skip Frye boards for sale, but were all sold out.
Then the question popped into my mind: how does one go about ordering a new Skip Frye custom shaped surfboard. I put the question (half rhetorically) out on twitter and Jim Moriarty answered me back: You don’t (he doesn’t take orders). I figured I knew this, somehow, instinctually.
Please file this under: “unrequited love”.
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Your only chance to order one is via Yuichi at Waves Forever http://www.wavesforever.com/
Here ya go man, an epic one for sale on the Surfer mag classifieds:
http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1621825&an=0&page=0#Post1621825
by the way, it’s really hard to leave comments on this blog.
This is the only spot I’ve ever seen Skip’s boards for sale:
Swaylocks market:
http://www.swaylocks.com/surfshop/Detailed/4688.html
http://www.swaylocks.com/cgi/surfshop/search.cgi?d=1&query=frye&bool=and&substring=0&mh=25
Start your drooling again.
How serious are you? I have a 10′3 eagle shaped for me in 1998 triple stringer red rails and red cloth inlay half way up the deck. Some repairs mosty minor and all well done. I can send pics if you want but it wont be cheap.