"Crystal Voyager" A film by George Greenough | My favorite surf film of all time!
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- "Crystal Voyager" A film by George Greenough
This is just a 10-minute trailer. The full-length film is hard to find, but I love this video and want to share it.
This video is based around surfing in and around Santa Barbara in the 70's with George Greenough. George had a major influence on surfing progression. He was doing things no one else was doing then and pushing the limits of what people thought possible. This brilliant film has inspired me for years now. I hope it does the same for you.
The 3 people on that trip were George, Nat and Ritchie West (RIP). Ritchie is (was) my son's godfather. During their journey in the early 70's across the Pacific, as they sailed thru to Tahiti. I was living and surfing in Samoa (1200 miles west/SW of Tahiti) and had an AM radio show from midnight to 6am..I would play complete albums and dedicate the tracks to the Crystal Voyager knowing they would pick up the signal. When I finally built my house in Lennox, I would sit out front of King's fish and chip shop and talk story with George who confirmed that they had indeed listened to my show for many a night. Thanks for posting mate!
Thanks for sharing! Loved hearing this story. Because this film is so amazing I put together the full-length film for everyone to watch: th-cam.com/video/xy4sGF9v1yk/w-d-xo.html
@@haydengarfield_gidday from nsw
When i was a grom we went at saw Crystal Voyager in an old cinema called the Regal Theater in Perth WA.
This seems like a million years ago. There was something magical, bordering on mystical about the old celluloid film, in that cinema on the big screen we use to feel like we were out in those waves. It was these movies that inspired my surfing travels and adventure. This took me to Northern NSW where I met and became a friend of Richie West, (peace my barreling brother.)
He was so connected to source and had an uncanny wave understanding. To this day I still respect him as one of the greatest toobriders ever.
Thank you for bringing old memories to life and inspiring future ones.
@@SteveHarris-tk3tr Yes sir Ritchie was very special and certainly a master "toobrider".
George was a true visionary. His lines on the waves are so contemporary that it is insane
Agreed! Full length film is linked here: th-cam.com/video/xy4sGF9v1yk/w-d-xo.html I figured the full film should be watched by everyone. Its just to good
Born raised in SB with all the legends of the 70s. Living the dream.
George showed “The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun” at the YMCA in Stonestown in 1963 i think it was. I was a senior in high school. Might have been some weed, certainly lots of Red Mountain. By the end we were jumping up and down and screaming for more. No one had ever filmed the inside of the wave before. Since then George was always on thge edge of my life, sailing, and windsurfing. He was so far ahead of the whole thing, always. May he live forevr.
RAD! THAT WAS EPIC TO HEAR. Thank you for sharing! I put together the full film to be watched here: th-cam.com/video/xy4sGF9v1yk/w-d-xo.html to good not to share!
I LOVE IT!!! I followed Greenough in 1966 when I was 8 and learned to kneeboard and rode HARDCORE until I was 30 (then sorry, I started windsurfing and kiteboarding until I hit 66 years old, recently). I had Greenough's "Extra" page from Surfer Mag in a frame that hung on the wall of every office I ever had... It showed him making the Biplane. He said, "I am not an inventor, in the Veg-o-matic sense. If I can't find something I need, I find a way to make it." That has been my philosophy for my entire life.. Way to go, Hayden, great video post!!!
Ahh the 70's, thanks Hayden.
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Yeah I remember George Greenogh when at high school in the 70s bloody legend great surf innovator brings back memories with me badass 5 10 twin fin !!!
SBH? Carp?
Cosmic Children was my all time fav surf movie. Saw it when I was a grom. Had a board shaped like Nats board in this movie. Mine was 7’ 2” with offset tail and with a keel fin. My second fav board, had a 7’ 8” with a keel also but pintail. Those were amazing days back then, you could find uncrowded surf anywhere and sleep on some paradise remote beach down country, no one would bother you. Surfboards were evolving fast, first short boards, then Trifins, dove-tails and twinfins, then suddenly the thruster and it changed everything.
Thanks for posting , this came out just a couple of years after I started surfing, and was shown only briefly in theaters, if I remember correctly. Severson's Pacific Vibrations came out about the same time, and was another epic surf film that cannot be shown today due to legal issues with the soundtrack. I still have the poster, a Rick Griffin masterpiece. Greenough was a legendary shaping guru, and true waterman of the time. A huge influence on the sport, I continued to ride my Paipo board off and on for many years when the waves were less than ideal, and grew up surfing with several kneeboarders, which are almost extinct as a species now.
Thanks for sharing! So rad to hear! If you have more stories and film recommendations, I'd love to hear them: I've linked the full film here: th-cam.com/video/xy4sGF9v1yk/w-d-xo.html
Gotta love the inclusion of Pink Floyd's "Echoes" here. Back when the travel world of surfing was done with maps and books and the adventure was real.
Yes agreed. So good! I put together the full length film if you are interested in watching: th-cam.com/video/xy4sGF9v1yk/w-d-xo.html Cheers!
Awesome memories from an awesome time.
Was out in the lineup one day, (1976,77?) and George was there. We traded boards for a few waves. Nice guy
Reminds me of my youth seeing George’s name. I’ll always remember him as a real “waterman”. The first knee boards I built were inspired by him, last I heard he lived in Queensland, Australia, on the ocean in the middle of a national park, George got there first.
Absolute legend. I wish I got to see him in action. I put together the full-length film here: th-cam.com/video/xy4sGF9v1yk/w-d-xo.html
Surfing was so much better back then. It was more spiritual to many of us. Today's crowds have made horrible
@Bebtelovimab yup still nuts at Rincon
The windsurfing equipment that George made for himself was crazy. The man is full on legend.
Hard for the grommets to grasp just how amazing the footage in this movie really is. Everyone and anyone can get tube footage these days.
Ahhh,, Kneeboarding that’s way back I was 18 in 1974 there was only one kid in our whole beach town that knee boarded that’s Long Beach, N.Y.
The best of times, I did two winters at The North Shore, and multiple trips to Puerto Rico,,
I was riding a 6’2 Doug Haut Rocket Fish with glassed in balsa fin’s very shallow fins so loose and fast, and for bigger waves a Ben Aipa 6’6 swallow tail Stinger single fin,,
I ordered the Stinger after Surfing with Larry Bertlman in the water at Rocky Point watching him surf his stinger was Godly display of High Voltage Ripping
There wasn’t one Stinger anywhere to be seen in my town, none on the rack at any shop, I had to custom order it,,
Of course I brought the idea/design back from that North Shore Winter.
Just like Larry I rode the fin all the way forward and sanded the base down so it had the side to side wiggle room,
Of course never rode it like Larry but I held my own,,
I’m pretty sure Ben Aipa was shaping his boards back then.
And those were the days my friends, we thought they’d never end,!!
Now it’s 50 years later
Mahalo Aloha
I still have a George Greenough flex fin sitting around here somewhere..I bought it more than 50 years ago and used it for many a year.
still being made by my friend in Goleta
Freakin George! Had the pleasure of surfing and talking to him a few times. Said he liked the set-up of my boat...
George is awesome, his spoons are all time.
George recently sold one of these knee boards for circa $10,000. He then gave the money to his local surf lifesaving club near Angiurie. I drove from Tynemiuth to Leeds to see a crystal Voyager at a cinema there. 3 hours each way but well worth the trip.
Ah so THATS what it's called.
I remember this film as it was the 1st time id heard Echoes by Floyd.
there is some underwater footage inside the waves where it starts playing if my adled memory serves
great post -
Thanks!
I love the tails hanging out from the wetsuit jacket. Yeah it was a great time to be surfing
Preleash days!
I love the back light in the waves.
Excellent, thanks for posting this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@haydengarfield_ NWFL, mid 70s, attending the showing of Free Ride, Destin, FL. When the footage of George riding a raft was playing, people really didn't grasp what he was portraying. One of the most excellent Waterman of that era in our area, told them, don't knock it, till you've tried it.
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Nat Young at 75 now can't pop up quickly enough. Now has a mat provided by George....
Jim Theroux and Mimi were there summer '78.
somehow all the comments got deleted :(
Whatever happened to knee boards ?
62yrs old,just surfed 10days straight here in NZ, we are not finished.lol.
Did George ever ride standing up?
im not sure. that's a great question.
CavernZ
Interesting movie though a shame Nat Young was in it cause he's a real piece of excrement.