Maui Model By Greek 7'4 Consignment Collector Surfboard

7'4

The Maui Model By Greek 7'4 Consignment Collector Surfboard is in nice condition with a few pressure dings along the deck and a few pressure dings along the bottom. Nice glassing with a few scratches and stress fractures if you look close. Well blended professional ding repairs along the edges and deck of the board, which are all smooth. This board comes with a matching vintage longboard single fin and both screws. 

Condition: 9 Stars - ★★★★★★★★★

Consignment for Kellim Brown 1/29/25

Bob "the Greek" Bolen started surfing in 1958 and made his first surfboard in 1959 while still a student at Bolsa Grande High School in Garden Grove, California. At the time, shapers usually worked for a well-known shaper/mentor before opening their own shops--but not the Greek. Instead, he bought his first blank from Bill Holden and some stringer material from Chuck Foss, picked up his planer and started making foam dust. Bob learned to surf at Doheny and Huntington Beach, but loved surfing Dana Point in the early '60s--before the harbor was completed in 1968. "It could be howling onshore at Huntington but Dana Point would be clean and fun," Bolen said. "I surfed out there with Dick Dale a few times, and Mickey Munoz would come around and Peter Peterson was catching waves in his canoe. It was just a lot of fun. Damned yacht harbor..." The Greek started out making surfboards for himself and a few friends, but it was a local bicycle shop owner who gave him his first shot at building boards commercially. Witnessing the huge growth in surfing's popularity, he asked Bob to make boards to sell in his bike shop. Bob didn't have the money to fund the endeavor, so the shop owner paid for materials and Bob built boards in his father's garage. In 1960, Bob opened his own surf shop in Huntington Beach. Nicknamed "the Greek" by high school buddies because of his Greek ancestry, he decided to call his brand "Surfboards by the Greek." By his own admission, he figured names like "Surfboards by Bob" or "Surfboards by Bolen" weren't going to cut it. For the next twenty years, Bob was one of the top surfboard builders in the business and was known for his many popular model designations that included the Eliminator, Liquidator, Maui Model and Pickle. In 1964, he introduced what is considered to be the first East Coast signature model for team rider Bruce Clelland. Other members of the Greek's surf team included such well-known riders as Herbie Fletcher and Tiger Espere. -- lastwave