I just picked up a 1970's Robert Strickland single fin board. It is in pretty good shape, I am just trying to find out a little more about the board. I am in Jacksonville. I can post pictures if anyone is familiar with Strickland boards. 

you own a piece of gold from a prospecting LEGEND! u send me [pix kid, ill tell ya a story! he and his son were some of my oldest and best friends, and a think of them daily, and, i know the deal with your stik!

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do you have an email address i can send them to? I tried to upload them but I can not on 2nd light. 

Bob shaped all of my boards through high school and a year or two after that when I surfed for MTB.  He was such a cool guy and was a solid shaper...He became a friend to me although I didn't keep in touch the last several years of his life.  Anything that he shaped is worth holding onto.

I still ride my RS noserider on perfect small days.  Bob shaped it for me 15 years ago and I'm still blown away at how well it rides.  I wish he was around for this latest board revival.  It's funny how folks are shaping all different types of "retro" boards now.  Bob never quit shaping fishes, bonzers, and single fin eggs.  Anyway, since you are in Jacksonville you may have a Winnie Strickland surfboard.  If the board has a vertical "STRICKLAND" logo in orange block letters that's Winnie.  Still a very well shaped board.  If it's a Bob Strickland it's probaly a MTB or possibly a Catri (a RS Catri would be unreal cool, but probaly unmarked).  The MTB era Bob boards have pencil RS intials along the stringer on the bottom third of the deck.  Bob had kind of draftmen's style lettering. 

Edited: 07/12/2012 at 07:37 PM by AndyH

Hang on to that one.

would you mind posting the pics? I would love to see the board.

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10 years later, I still think of him every day. Never motivated by money or deadlines. Great man, top notch shaper / designer. The loss is huge.

Edited: 01/20/2013 at 07:19 PM by steveholloway

What he said.

I'm glad you brought this post up again Steve.  You glassed my first custom Robert Strickland.  This is Andy Hughes BTW.  I hope he posts some PICS so we can check it out.  

Hi, Andy!

Howzit?

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Doing well.  Wish I was surfing instead of working.

Well now,an honest to god real 13th St. local! Hey there Andy, how the hell are you? Bob was certainly one of a kind,I fondly remember having numurous drunken discusisons with him over board design at his "Bar and Grill" Surf Shop (The real hardcorest shop ever to exsist in Cocoa Beach,not withstanding your dads and Newts joint Guitar/Art venture at the other end of town!). Jimmy just got back from visiting Newt,if you dont already know,his lates visit is posted on Seans site. (PS Hey there Bob!)  ---- And to the general public reading this,I have personal witnessed Mr. Hughes ridding his Strickland Noserider MORE then once and rest assurred he KNOWS how to ride it properly!     Tommy

WOW.  This is a funny post and still no photos from the guy that started it.  I love Jim's Newt stories.  I would love to go and see Newt, but hard to leave the family for a trip out west.  Bob's "shop" was classic.  Many fond and odd memories from those days.  I might post a story someday.  Too many in my head at the moment to pick one.  Do you remember Bob's "flying door" board? 

 Wow! ,Yourself !,That was a fast reply,considering when I first saw it and posted a message,I did not even see that the last responce to that thread (ie yours) was over two months ago !Bobs "Shop" will never be duplicateted,where else could you see Mr Strickland mowing some foam,from the comfort of your bar stool ,no less  .....And Mr Codgens or Mr O Hare might make a ocasional guest apperance at any point in time................

First Bob, then Logan. Those were 2 sad days. RIP.

my first board was an RS, a 6'1" neon yellow thruster with glassed in fins. found her broken in half in a trash can. my dad and i glassed it back together, although i think he got some help from matt kechele.

she still sits in my garage, in rough but totally rideable and watertight state, though probably in need of some sun cure. i ignored it for ages but i recently took it out a few times. really fun, fast and responsive ride to it. funny how things come full circle.

pretty sure it says "for paul" on the stringer if any of you guys are the one who broke it and left me a nice donation!

Bumping this to go along with the other post.

Edited: 03/21/2013 at 11:50 AM by AndyH

I met Bob in 1969/70. He grew up about 4 block from my house in Lakeland, Florida. My friend bought one of the first or the first board Bob ever shaped. It was purple and heavy. I have a photo of my friend surfing that board the next weekend. I got into surfing at that young age because my father did work at the cape, bought me a Doug Haut board and would bring me with him to work and drop me off on the beach to surf all day until he was done. I was 13 years old. Bob shaped several boards for me. FIsh, fun shapes and a 7'8" pintail winger I took to Mexico in 1976. He shaped some unreal single fin boards and twin fins those days. He made the glassed in fins for those boards. He also would make skateboard decks. Hank Warner stayed with Bob for a while in Lakeland and worked with Bob on shaping boards. I have a board that he shaped for me in 1976 when I came back from Mexico that was influenced by Hank. All the others are gone, but this one I still have. I will take a photo and post it later. I have so many stories, but not as many as his close friend who grew up with him and still surfs who now lives in Orlando. Bob was one of the kindest men I ever met and always had time for young surfers. I typed all this really fast... at work, but just felt I needed to say something. Every time I have to go to Lakeland and see my Mom I find myself driving by that old warehouse where he used to shape boards... damn good memories. Because of him I still surf today at 56.

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9'6" Donald Takayama In The Pink
9'10" Yater HP
8'6" Firewire Crossfire
7'4" Mike Hynson Hydro Chief
6'6" Robert Strickland (1976)
6'6" Jim Phillips (1975)