#1

The classic round skimboard. Made possible by the invention of plywood for WWI. Donated by Alan Seymour, acquired at a garage sale in Salt Lake City. Widely used during the 50's and 60's on flat beaches.

#2

The Watty Woofer skidboard. Made by Scott Westgaard in high school. Early example of the oblong shape, characteristic of Victoria Beach. Parallel rails makes turning and carving possible. The new age of skimboarding begins here. Circa 1971

#3

Paipo board. This was the basic style for a bodyguard for body surfing, also worked as a skidboard. Skidboards of this era were called Cadillac's. Rounded noses and wide square tails were the norm.

#4

Called the Rain Maker, this board and was created by Tex in his dorm room while attending Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon. The board received its name (Rain Maker) from the Victoria Beach locals as they witnessed the amount of water produced by smacking into the waves.

#5

Jay Williams' Skidboard. His father was a contractor with a well stocked shop. Deep swallow, flex tail was a huge innovation, making a very fast board. "Louie" was the best skimboarder of the time and could pull triple flips. Circa 1972

#6

One of the first Victoria Beach Custom "Skidboards." Peter Prietto and Tex Haines changed the name from skidboards to skimboards around this time as "skid" seemed to have to much of a negative connotation. Logo by Fred Weller, this "skidboard" did not have any rocker which was a characteristic of many boards of the time. If you were lucky, your board was glassed in a garage on Alexander Road above Victoria Beach and received a slight bit of rocker.

#7

Mark Jamgochian Angel Tit model. Mr. Style, Dr, J. The Armenian master of innovative maneuvers. Many stories of the Victoria tribe are woven in to this tapestry. "Free up, eat fruit, you can be anything this time around." Circa 1979

#8

Tim Fisken Fly Model. Torque, Frank N. Stein, alia Fly, the frontside turn master and worshipper of the carve. This board reflects a highly refined sense of proportions. Tim Fisken wrote many fictional stories for Skimboard Magazine. Built around 1979

#9

Introduction of the Victoira Speeder. A wood board with fiberglass top and bottom, the Speeder was the standard in wood boards throughout most of the 1980's with this particular one being made around 1981. Victoira Skimboards were glossed by hand until the late 80's when "vacuum" technology came in to play.

#10

#11

Jason Holloway's all in one board. This early creation featured a wood bottom, foam top, wingers, channels with recessed fin, and a flip nose. A phenomenal combination of innovations. Circa 1980

#12

Tay Haines' foam core board. This board had a 1 inch balsa wood stringer down the middle of it. Shortly after, the use of stringers was abandoned due to the difficulty of glassing a board that had a rigid mid section with softer edges. 1980

#13

Chris Henderson's first board. Shaped by Tex Haines and glassed by Jeff Smith. As the story goes, Chris attempted to shape the board and it turned out Chris could skim better then he could shape. Tex stepped in to save the project but had to "shave" the board down before passing it o Jeff for glass. 1981

#14

The 4'11" SST Model is produced. This penetrator of a board was designed to test the limits of the "pointy nose" theory (a longer, pointier nose will give you less drag when riding on the wave and possibly increase your speed). Maximum distance was the objective. There are small channels under the winglets which were great for going straight but bad for tight turns.

#15

Chris Henderson's skimboard for the Action Now Magazine articles and TV series as well as the first Victoria skimboarding video put together by Steve Jones. It is incredible that he could turn a board this heavy.

#16

Ivan Ashauer inspired double trident design. Made 7-28-88 Wide and thin for distance, hand glassed rocker coaxed into it by hanging weights around the rails the as fiberglass cured.

#17

Cardboard? Yes it is. We were experimenting with everything in the 80's, so why not? Yes, it is heavy, and soft and extremely vulnerable to water, but fun!

#18

Buoyant theory with thicker core, sand surfer style, channel bottom with wings. Made for Larry Baylies. Hand Glassed in 1984 before vacuum bagging.

#19

Tex's Kanji script Banzai Model. A cotton fabric print was substituted for a layer of fiberglass and actually seemed to be even stronger than the fiberglass layout. After the board reached its "retirement" a Japanese skimboarder informed Victoria Skimboards that the writing was upside down and backwards.

#20

A fantastic example of the hand glassed foam core boards of the 1980's which would soon become a dying art in the skimboarding industry. The art on the board was done by Jack Meyer and fell into the art archetype of the 80's. 1986

#21

Zebra Model ridden by Tex around 1987. Shortly after this, Victoria begun building skimboards using vacuum pressure and table with built in rocker.

#22

Brad Dickey's 1988 contest tour board. This board saw contests in Santa Cruz, Malibu, and Laguna Beach as well as the East Coast Championships in Dewey Beach, Delaware.

#23

The Sand Surfer Model, the second one ever made. It was initially invented for team ride Matt Crowl (1985-1990) and the foam blank was shaped by Matt. Art by Mike Kuzy.

#24

Sept 1993. Epoxy, vacuum bagged, foot wells in rear, glassed by Craig Oakland, shaped by Tex for Brad Dickey.