surfboard racks

Devices used to fasten one or more surfboards to a vehicle, usually a car or truck, for transportation. When Hawaiian surfer and gold medal swimmer Duke Kahanamoku visited Australia in 1914, he used rope to tie his wooden board across the cab of a horse and buggy; the few dozen surfers in Hawaii and Southern California at that point were likely already using rope in similar fashion to lash boards to the roofs of their Model A Fords—although in the early decades of the 20th century, boards wer...