Sandpiper and Bon-Aire SOLD
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Sandpiper and Bon-Aire SOLD
Here's a package deal on a vintage Bon-Aire and a Sandpiper 32 inch skimboard/bellyboard. The Bon-Aire comes with original cardboard packaging, but DOES NOT HAVE A FIN. Deck labels, edges, and handles are in good shape. Notice on the Sandpiper it still has the reamains of a sticker on the bottom, so it wasn't ridden too hard. The Bon-Aire is a little lumpy from being jumped on.
Update: nobody seems interested in these. Maybe I'll list them on Ebay, or sell them in a shop.
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Re: Sandpiper and Bon-Aire Package Deal
Just a question -- was the Sandpiper built by the same company and precede the Bon-Aire?
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Re: Sandpiper and Bon-Aire Package Deal
If it wasn't the same company, then it was soneone that got the old molds and machines from Bon-Aire. I always thought of the Sandpiper as a reproduction from the eighties, but I never found any official History. I once got an email from a guy that said he was a team rider for Sandpiper in the eighties...more of a demonstration team than a competition team.
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Re: Sandpiper and Bon-Aire Package Deal
Now listed on Ebay. Short auction, 4 days left, and a $98.00 starting bid.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221934220542?ss ... 1555.l2649
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221934220542?ss ... 1555.l2649
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Re: Sandpiper and Bon-Aire Package Deal
Ebay auction ended without bidders, and the boards were relisted.
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Re: Sandpiper and Bon-Aire Package Deal
To the best of my knowledge at this time the first advertisement and announcement in a USA surfing magazine for the Skimboard by Bon-Aire (also called Bonaire), was in the July 1964 issue of Petersen's Surfing Magazine (vol. 1, no. 5). The Bonaire appeared in three locations:
I have seen references to the Sandpiper during my surfing magazine research, but could find a reference in the database which is not exhaustive.
- p. 9, in a Jack's Surfboard Shop advertisement (address: Dept. A, 102 N. Main St., Huntington Beach, CA and c/o Samuel Larner, Dept. B), along with Islander Surfboards and Custom Boards by Jack's;
- p. 41, in a Bon-Aire Skim and Belly Board advertisement (address: Dept. A, 102 N. Main St., Huntington Beach, CA, and and c/o Samuel Larner and Assoc.); and,
- p. 50, in the "What's New" section, The Bon Aire Company, located at 102 Main Street, Huntington Beach, CA. Appearing next to it was the Belly Board by Mouse, also distributed by Samuel Larner, 102 Main Street, Huntington Beach, CA.
- On p. 5, of the same issue, is an advertisement for Bellyboard by Mouse, same Larner and Assoc. and address, but Dept. SM-7.
- No mention of an optional skeg in these adverts. All adverts were black and white, mostly half page adverts
I have seen references to the Sandpiper during my surfing magazine research, but could find a reference in the database which is not exhaustive.
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Re: Sandpiper and Bon-Aire Package Deal
Rod,
That middle photo in the ad of course isn't a Bon-aire being surfed. It is John Waidelich riding his paipo-nui at Sunset (I think).
That middle photo in the ad of course isn't a Bon-aire being surfed. It is John Waidelich riding his paipo-nui at Sunset (I think).
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Re: Sandpiper and Bon-Aire Package Deal
In the grand scheme of advertising, ha ha, no, that is not a Bon-Aire being surfed. One would expect that Don James was paid for using his photo is a series of adverts?bgreen wrote:Rod,
That middle photo in the ad of course isn't a Bon-aire being surfed. It is John Waidelich riding his paipo-nui at Sunset (I think).
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