Marc Newson’s nickel-plated board
The original surfboards were a Hawaiian invention made from local wood. Not only were these boards over 15 feet long, but they were quite heavy as well. Nowadays, surfboards are usually made from polyurethane foam covered in a few layers of fiberglass cloth and then coated with polyester resin.
The world’s most expensive surfboard is a little different.
Created by Australian designed Marc Newson, the most expensive surfboard is one of ten such boards created as pieces of art. That doesn’t mean that they’re just there to look pretty, though. The 5 foot boards were plated in nickel and polished to a mirror finish to reduce drag. Newson originally sold them for $100,000 apiece.
One of these boards was used by championship surfer Garrett McNamara. Unfortunately, McNamara wiped out, lost the board and discovered it the next day in the hands of someone 15 miles down the beach. That board is now on display at the Gagosian Gallery in New York.
Dick brewer’s “Surfboards Hawaiian”
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Newson designed them with the help of Dick Brewer, a legend in the field who has previous experience in designing a most expensive surfboard. One of his “Surfboards Hawaii” elephant gun boards, created in the 60s, was sold for $30,000 at auction in 2007. Only two others are known to exist.
While there are nine other of Newson’s nickel-plated surfboards, one sold at a Sotheby’s auction in NYC still commanded a far greater price than anyone expected when it was sold for a record-breaking $220,000. Now that’s an expensive way to hang ten!
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That makes Power Surfboards from olosurfer not the most expensive at US$20,000 for a 12’9″ Empress wood tunnel finned modern olo board, and US $40,000 for a 19 foot ‘Sun Board’ Empress wood olo. Every super yacht should have a quiver of these superb wooden surfboards
HELLO BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN!
I am not surfing on that THING??????
Elephant boards…………wow.
Well at leat it’s a board that you can surf.
Roy’s boards are just banana shape doors.
It’ like comparing a ferrari to a mini morris