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1963 Balsa Malibu 9 ft 4 inch

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Wally Carle, 10 Angle Road Grays Point, NSW Phone: 524 2556
SHAPER: Wally Carle
DESIGN: (Sausage) Malibu
DESIGNER:
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Chambered balsa blanks with three 1" redwood stringers and 5 piece tailblock. Fibreglassed.

DIMENSIONS
-estimations based on # 23

*Length :*	9	ft	6	inches	*L2:*
*Width :*	21 1/2	inches		*Wide Point :*	+3	inches
*Nose :*	17	inches		*Tail :*	14 1/2	inches
*Thickness :*	3 1/2	inches		*Pod :*	4	inches
*Nose Lift :*		inches		*Tail Lift :*		inches
*Weight :*		kilos		*Volume :*		litres
*Other :*		inches

FEATURES
Nose: Round with tip
Tail: Square
Deck: Flat
Bottom: Flat
Rails: Round
Rocker: Slight, more in tail

FIN
8 1/4" x 10"(base)
redwood with 2 x 2 balsa strips and glass bead.

DECOR
DECALS
Deck: None - possibly had foil or vinyl stickers
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck: none
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: clear
Bottom:

NOTES
HISTORY
Purchased circa 1963, by John Sentence, Llangollian Avenue Enfield, Sydney.
Purchased by Frank and Betty Cater as Christmas present for Geoff Cater, 1965?
Board reshaped as 8 ft Pintail, 1968, a disaster that confirmed the chambered construction.

COMMENTS: A companion board to # 24.

REFERENCES:
CONDITION: 9

MANUFACTURER HISTORY

Wally Carle Surfboards
10 Angle Road Grays Point, NSW
Phone: 524 2556
1959
Wally Carle
Advertisement, right:
Wally Carle Surfboards
Surfabout Volume 1Number 1 August 1962 page 32.

This photograph of Wal Carle was printed below the advertisement on the same page:

Surfabout
August 1962 - Spring 1968.
Editor :Jack Eden
Image: Vol 1 #1 August 1962.

Cover : Wally Carle.
Photograph by Jack Eden.

Surfer identified by Julia Carle by a phone call, August 2010.
Many thanks to Julia.

The Southside/Cronulla version of Bob Evans' Surfing World
Vol1 #2 December 1962

Lynette Cater, Seven Mile Beach, circa 1966.
Photograph: Betty Cater,

Geoff Cater, Seven Mile Beach, circa 1966.
Photograph: David Cater

Left:
Diane Cater, Shoalhaven River, circa 1966.
Photograph: Betty Cater