Sell to Us · Dana Point
Sell vintage in Dana Point, where Killer Dana still echoes.
Free visit · cash offers · no obligation
Before the harbor, there was Killer Dana: one of the great waves of old California, surfed by the pioneers and erased by the breakwater in 1966. The town has been quietly mourning and celebrating it ever since, and the boards, photographs, and stories from those years are the most sought-after material in town.
Dana Point households hold more than surf history: the Lantern District streets carry mid-century homes with original contents, and the harbor decades filled dens with nautical brass, charts, and the gear of sailing families. We are fifteen minutes away and buy across all of it.
What Dana Point keeps
Pre-harbor surf pieces
Boards, photographs, and ephemera from the Killer Dana years and the Hobie generation.
Hobie history
Boards, skateboards, catalogs, and shop material from the brand born one town over.
Nautical and maritime
Brass instruments, charts, ship models, and the gear of fifty sailing seasons.
Lantern District households
Mid-century contents from the Street of the Golden Lantern grid and the bluffs.
Estates
Complete households from Capistrano Beach to Monarch Beach, one visit, one offer.
The Hobie connection runs deep
Hobie Alter started shaping in Laguna and built the empire from Dana Point’s doorstep, and half the garages in town seem to hold a piece of that story: balsa and foam boards, early skateboards, catalogs, team jackets. This material has a passionate collector base, and provenance multiplies value: a board with a receipt, a photo, or a family story attached is worth real money. We document those stories as part of the purchase.
How We Work
We evaluate everything in front of you, explain what we’re seeing, and pay cash before we leave. No consignment, no waiting on a sale.
How it works
Call or text photos.
A real conversation about what you have, no pressure to sell.
We come to you.
We look at everything, at your pace. We know what we're seeing.
Cash offer, same visit.
A fair price on the spot, or a full estate sale run for you.
Common questions
How do I know if an old board is a Hobie that matters?
Logos, stringer details, and construction date a board, and shop records fill gaps. Bring us to it before any restoration: original condition, even rough, beats a fresh glass job.
Do you buy boat gear and nautical antiques?
The vintage end, yes: brass, instruments, ship models, flags, and pre-fiberglass era gear. Modern marine equipment is not our lane, and we will say so honestly.
Can you do a quick walkthrough before a remodel?
Yes, and please call before the dumpster arrives. Pre-remodel walkthroughs are short, free, and have saved remarkable things in this town more than once.
We have boxes of old surf photographs and slides from before the breakwater. Does anyone want those?
Very much so. The boards, photographs, and stories from those years are the most sought-after material in town, and images with a recognizable break, a dated slide mount, or a name written on the back are the ones that carry history. Keep the negatives with the prints, do not trim or crop anything, and do not write on the image side. Pencil notes on a separate sheet are welcome and we will record them with the purchase.
The den is full of ship’s brass, a sextant, and old instruments. Should we polish them before you come?
Please do not. Quality instruments left the maker under a thin protective lacquer, and polish strips it, then the compound settles into the engraving and dulls the maker’s name and serial number, which is where the value gets read. An even brown tone and a little verdigris are normal on anything that lived near the harbor. Keep the fitted case, the keys, any certificate, and spare eyepieces with the instrument, because an instrument in its own case is worth considerably more than the instrument alone.
There is a heavy old board in the rafters with yellowed resin and a soft spot. Is it worth moving carefully, or is it firewood?
Move it carefully. Yellowing is age and it is expected, and a dinged or delaminated board is still collectible, while a board that has been sanded, re-glassed, or repainted has usually lost the logo, the stringer detail, and the shaper’s pencil marks that identify it. Carry it flat with two people and never by the nose or the fin, since old balsa and foam fail at the stress points first. Keep it out of direct sun until we look, because heat is what turns a soft spot into a real one.
One call. We’ll take it
from there.
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