RARE APPEARANCE BY BING COPELAND!

Bing Copeland, founder of Bing
Surfboards, will be making a rare personal appearance in San Diego
County at the California Surf Museum, 223 North Coast Highway in
Oceanside, on Sunday, November 23rd, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. He will be
signing copies of "Bing Surfboards – fifty years of craftsmanship and
innovation" along with author Paul Holmes — just in time for holiday
gift shopping. Come by for refreshments and some good stories!



"I'm really excited about this book," says Bing. "Paul Holmes and
everyone who helped produce it have done a wonderful job and I'm
stoked. I'm sure everyone who reads it will be stoked too!" It tells
the story of Bing Copeland, the business he built, the colorful cast
of craftsmen he employed and the visionary surfboards they made and
continue to make to this day.



Bing Surfboards is one of the longest-running and most progressive
labels in the surfing world and its boards are still exclusively
handcrafted in California. Bing played a major role in making surfing
and the surfboard industry what they are today. At 13, he started
helping out at pioneer surfboard maker Dale Velzy's workshop in
Manhattan Beach. During the mid-1950s he surfed the big waves of
Oahu's North Shore and Makaha in Hawaii. In 1958 he sailed across the
Pacific and introduced modern surfboards to New Zealand. By 1959, back
in Southern California, he began making surfboards commercially.



Published in June 2008, here's just some of what you'll find in "Bing
Surfboards – fifty years of craftsmanship and innovation" by Paul
Holmes, former editor of Surfer magazine and author of "Dale Velzy is
Hawk," published in 2006:



·         192-pages, high-quality, full-color, coffee-table format
(9½" x 12¼") hardcover book featuring 300-plus historic and
contemporary photographs including some 50 action surf shots of Bing
Copeland and his illustrious contingent of team riders through the
years taken by some of surfing's all time great photographers.



·         The amazing life story of Bing Copeland and his company, and
a complete review of all Bing Surfboards models and their contribution
to surfboard design evolution. From early '60s custom classics with
inlaid curved stringers and parquetry skegs, to the mid-decade design
progressions of the Noseriders, Lightweights, Pipeliners and Pintail
Lightweights and on to the transition era of the Lotus, Karmas and
Foils, all the way into the age of multi-finned shortboards with its
twin-fins and cutting-edge, tri-fin Bonzer, the Bing Surfboards story
shows how the evolution of contemporary surfboard design took place.



·         Reprints of all Bing Surfboards advertising in surf
magazines—a classic blast from the past.



·         The story of the involvement of key team riders and shapers
including Donald Takayama, David Nuuhiwa, Dick Brewer, Jock
Sutherland, Dru Harrison, Steve Schlickenmeyer, Keith Paull, Rolf
Aurness, Mike Eaton, Claude Codgen, the Campbell brothers, Peter
Townend and many, many more.



·         Workers' tales from the factory floor—some funny, some
serious and some just plain crazy!



·         Photos and detail shots of more than 60 classic Bing boards
along with serial numbers, dimensions and significant elements of
their design and/or construction, and the Bing Surfboards fin timeline
showing the development of fin design—fascinating information for
collectors, surf history fans and anyone passionate about surfboards.


·         Brochures, price lists, original letters and other documents
from the Bing Surfboards archive, plus logo lam art from every Bing
Surfboards model ever made.

This limited first edition imprint is available for $60.

For information, call
(760) 721-6876, or visit www.surfmuseum.org. Open daily, 10:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m.