Vintage FINN / OBRIEN Hyperlite Revert Twin 143cm Wakeboard USA Excellent!

Description

Vintage 1990's Hyperlite Revert 143cm cable wakeboard made in the USA in excellent condition! Flanks are perfect and will be removed for safe shipping. They reattach easily. Nice board! Free insured shipping to the lower 48.
It appears that wakeboarding began in San Diego in 1985, right after skiboarding (snowboarding) arrived on the scene. A man named Tony Finn, known inaccurately as the founder of wakeboarding according to most all accounts of the history of wakeboarding, designed a board that he named a Skurfer. This new board took qualities from both water skis and surfboards to create the first wakeboard. Finn marketed his own board and generated a lot of enthusiasm and awareness about the new product, but it really took off when he met Herb O’Brien.
O’Brien owned his own company (H.O. Sports) that focused solely on the manufacturing of water skis. In the late eighties, Finn’s new sport caught O’Brien’s eye and led O’Brien to develop a refined version of Finn’s wakeboard. He called this new wakeboard the “Hyperlite,” and it was designed to be of neutral buoyancy. It allowed for easier takeoff in deep waters, which made it simple for even the most novice wakeboarders to participate in the sport. As soon as it hit the market, interest in wakeboarding sky-rocketed.