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Collectors all aboard for surf safety
December 17, 2006 Edition 1
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Nathalie Rosa Bucher
Surf boards decorated by some of South Africa's most famous artists fetched R83 500 when they were sold on auction in Cape Town on Friday night.
Among those who decorated the 70s-style retro boards made by legendary surfboard shaper Spider Murphy, are Konradski, Varenka Paschke, Brett Murray, Cameron Platter, Richard Scott, Julia Rose Clarke and Angela Macpherson.
 A total of 13 boards were offered for auction, but only nine were sold on the night. The artists used a variety of mediums to decorate the boards, including oil, spray paint, ball point pen, humour and naughtiness and even a men's suit "reinvented" by Angela Macpherson.
All the proceeds of the auction, part of the annual Wavescapes Surf Film Festival, will be donated to the National Sea Rescue Institute's Cape Town Shark Spotters programme. The programme utilises previously unemployed men operating from mountainside vantage points above popular beaches as an early-warning shark-spotting system.
Festival organiser Steve Pike said that many of the successful bidders were not surfers, but had bought the boards for their artistic value.
"These boards are either to be hung or surfed," added Mark Sampson, who assisted Pike with the auction.
Peter Bircham's "Pipedream", which featured on the poster that advertised the surf art exhibition was auctioned off for R10 000, while Konradski's "Duiwel barrel" fetched R11 500. And artist Brett Murray's "On Safari" was bought for R11 000 by Murray collectors.
One of the more unusual boards was Richard Scott's "Three Things I Love" (the surfboard itself; a painting of a drop dead gorgeous surfer's girlfriend striking a sexy pose and a model of an old Volksie bus, mounted onto the deck.
"I always really loved this car and this is for a good cause," said Martin Ryman who bought it.
Derek Luber, who bought "The Illustrated History of Surfing" by Richard Hart, said he was planning to hang the board in his new offices, and Glen Thompson successfully bid for "Black Mamba" by ND Mazin, the same artist he purchased a board from last year
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