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FEATURES Nose: rounded pin Tail: rounded quare. Deck: flat Bottom: Basically flat with deep concave/channel in the tail.  Rails: down with edge Rocker: flat with nose lift. Image right : Tail concave #1.

DECOR DECALS: Deck: Bing (late 1960's) Bottom: MARKINGS Deck: none Bottom: A U G A - a black pin line letters down the board. COLOUR Deck: .Red resin gel coat. Bottom: Red resin gel coat.

Tail concave #2.	Tail concave #3.

They then moved to Maui in the early 70's and tore the place apart on the Auga Board.
They were in a movie doing many, many 360's at Lahaina Harbor by Steve Bingham?!
Gerry Lopez was impressed with their Auga Board.
The board is 4'10" long, 22" wide, 18" nose (12" up), 21" tail, 4" maximum thickness, rocker- nose 3", tail 1/2", Concave tail 13"
long by 14" width by 1 1/2" depth, red- color in the resin, a black pin line on the entire bottom that says "Auga Board", Bing
Surfboards late 60's logo on top.
I showed the board to Bing Copland at his book signing in 2010 and he did not think there were any Auga boards with Bing logos that survived!
Please contact me with stories or other information, thanks.
Vince Ray, Los Angeles.

Tom Warren and Steve Barger  "The Auga Men"   Maui, early 1970's. Photograph: Steve Bingham.

Steve Barger,  "in and out ..."  Maui, early 1970's. (#1 of a sequence) Photograph: Steve Bingham

Steve Barger,  " ... and sideways."   Maui, early 1970's. (#2 of a sequence) Photograph: Steve Bingham

MANUFACTURER HISTORY See  Holmes : Bing Surfboards (2008).

The validity of slide slipping as a manourve was hotly debated and at the 1970 World Contest it appears that the the judges were not
 impressed.

 Shaun Tomson (then 14 years old) noted that at the 1970 World Contest, he and Western Australia's Ian Cairns:
                            "were riding side-slipper boards shaped by Ausie legend Midget Farrelly."
                                                                              -Tomson: Bustin' Down the Door (2008), page 18.

 Although Reno Abellira and Midget Farrelly rode Side Slipper designs, there are no contest photographs of them (or others) side slipping.
 The situation is similar in Paul Witzig's Sea of Joy, 1971.

 Due to the lack of suitable wave conditions, the required high skill level, the potential for confusion in crowed conditions and/or the rejection  by
 contest officials: side slipping receeded dramatically.

 While the Side Slipper appeared to be a minor deviation, it did have  major design influence...
 - down soft rails  became an industry standard.
 - encouraged research into fin boxes ( by 1972 the Bahne system became an industry standard).

The most successful (in sales, performance and safety) is Tom Morey's Booggie Board, 1971.

Pacific Vibration??05 / like woodstock on a wave / rare surf movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFG6XrTJhKw
20 s: Steve Barger or Tom Warren (goofyfoot) on a red finfless Bing Auga board, multiple 360s on left, at Trestles?
52 s: David Nuuhiwa, Twin fin Fish(es) ?, Huntington lefts?
2 m 02 s:  Corky Carroll, dark red Hobie Twin fin, lefts, kneel paddles.

Also

1971 Waves of Change
MacGillivray Freeman Films
Re-released in 1973 as Sunshine Sea
Credits for the later on DVD  include Steve Barger.

CONDITION: 7.5

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