ok I'll stick me neck out
.........prolly around $100 that's if it's got a near new fin

Put some legs on it and make it into a coffee table, you will not sell it

Hey pete,
if your interested ask around down in Manly for a guy called Mick Mock. He is the guy that organises the big surf auctions etc. Usually one or so a year at Mona Vale pub.
I reckon if you ask in most of the surf shops in Manly you should be able to find him. I'm sure he could give you a decent idea of what its worth especially being a MP.
Hope this helps

I reckon it sounds pretty cool. I'd say it's easy worth over a grand. Everyone should read that MP book....

verge bring out or dead

gees i got a mint condition MD and a maddog in my shed, both are glass with custom fluro paint. they look great hanging on my wall.... even got Pryde fluro straps on one of them.. any takers

I have spoken with both bob and geoff down there a few times over the years and have always found them to be really helpful.Thanks for your suggestion haggar i will have a chat with them.

Have to agree with ben severne,read the mp story .... its a cracker !

seems seabreeze forumites themselves have set the price for this board
looks like paying high prices for rare sailboards now can be attributed to these two threads.

seems a new guy? comes in asking prices ...of coarse there's all the usual its only worth a coffee table..but someone starts suggesting there could be worth in the collecting side and bango its put up for collector surfboard prices...

unfortunately collecting is no longer for the genuine collector...in this era collecting is for the 50 something who couldnt have their GTHO or their Monaro or Their Michael Peterson in the past when they were struggling family men...but now they are rich capitalist swine with more money than they know what to do with they can just use that excess money they have from their extremely sucessful advertising/coporate law/swanky business and plunge it into toys that can grace their driveways or in this case hang next to their autographed footy jersy from the last Sydney all boys representitive australian footy club run by some amazing cinema star.of coarse it will never see water again but perhaps a red wine may sit on its deck next to the little squares of fancy cheese.

Collectors were once the type to be buried alive by a pile of their own collection or newspapers [how do i know i was one of them now struggling to kick the habit] ...not the nuovo rich who would be buried with their money....and are we actually seeing with this auction the start of the end for normal windsurfers owning interesting relics..
will this put us into the cringable halls of the surfboard collector..generally a person who has never been on a surfboard or says its past my prime to surf anymore but i used to when i was a lad before i started my "Business of dreams" that allows me to pay good money for surfboards so that true collectors can no longer afford them.

is this the way it will be or am i really only talking "tongue in cheek" here because I havent been posting for a long time...mind you i have a couple of fibreglass sailboards that any of the nuovo rich reading might like to hang next to their autographed bradman ball protector or their pretentious limited print of some bathurst GTHO signed by the chief pit mechanic with an oily screwdriver which had just adjusted the carby that won bathurst..

Yes i am talking tongue in cheek but with venom for I am a recovering collector very happy to allow any of my collection to grace the nuovo riches boardroom ...for a price...so if you want a goggomobil to put that Michael Peterson on top off give me a call...seriously.

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