Fig. 3.2 – 3.3 ALOHA thruster, 1982. This board appears in a TV spot and print advertisement for the famous Canarian milk brand MILLAC. This shows how surfing gets popular and how the industry begins to use the image of surfing to sell their products.
CONFITAL BAY, 1979. Model of what is considered the first surf brand in the Canary Islands, a unique and historic brand created in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria by an excellent kneeboarder (surfing on a board on your knees and with fins to get into
ALOHA surfboards, early 1980s. Created by the first Spanish surfing champion, Raúl Dourdil, who before his arrival in the Canary Islands began to shape surfboards in a more professional, ALOHA became one of the first surfboard brands in the archipelago.