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Bare Nature Mini Mal Thruster 6 ft 10" Wayne Riordan |
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MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER:
Bare Nature Surfboards, 15 Browning Street, Byron Bay
NSW
SHAPER:
Wayne Riordan
DESIGN:
Mini Mal Thruster
DESIGNER: Wayne
Riordan |
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION:
Foam blank, 1/8'' wood stringer, spray colours, fin box, r/h plug
DIMENSIONS
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Length:
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6
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ft |
10
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inches |
L/d : 6ft 9
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inches |
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Width:
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21 1/2
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inches |
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Wide Point:
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+ve 1
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inches |
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Nose :
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16
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inches |
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Tail:
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15 1/2
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inches |
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Thickness:
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2 1/2
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inches |
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Pod:
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5
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inches |
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Nose Lift:
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inches |
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Tail Lift:
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inches |
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Weight
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kilos |
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Volume:
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litres |
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Channels:
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24
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inches |
@ |
16 inches from tail
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FEATURES
Nose:
narrow round
Tail:
rounded square
Deck:
smooth
roll
Bottom:
Flat with four channels forward of fin
Rails:
Soft down, hard in tail.
Rocker:
Smooth |
FINS
5'' x 4'' x 6 1/2''
span @ 12''
Thruster side fins
- black laminated fibreglass
Centre finbox 6''
@ 2 1/2''
Fitted with black
laminated fibreglass fin
5'' x 4'' x 6 1/2''
span
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DECOR
DECALS
Deck
1. Bare Nature.
Red and White script
in small diamond, along stringer on nose.
2.
Bare Nature.
Red and White script
in diamond, large at wide point. Image below.
3. Wayne Riordan
Surfboards.
Blue script and
graphic on tail. Image left.
Bottom
1.Bare
Nature.
Red and White script
in large diamond, along stringer on nose.
2.Broken Head
graphic.
Black at wide point.
Image bottom.
3. Bare Nature
and address. |
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Black and white
script centred at channels. Image above left.
MARKINGS
Deck: 6'
10'' x 21 1/4''
. Pencil along stringer near the tail.
Bottom: WR
'86.
Pencil along stringer between fins.
COLOUR
Deck:
Clear with sprayed pink rail lap and sprayed dark red pinlines. Note not
around tail.
Bottom:
pink
spray paint.
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NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
1. Stock Board.
Purchased 18 May??? 1986.
Bare Nature Surfboards,15
Browning Street, Byron Bay
NSW.
Trade-in john McInnes'
Huzza-Wuzza
Surfboards Mini Mal by Richard Herbert ?
2..
MANUFACTURER
HISTORY
1968 Byron Bay ?
Possibly started circa 1968 by Bob McTavish - Garry Keys - Chris Brock
in Byron Bay NSW
Image right : Bare Nature Stringerless Tracker (?) approximately
+ 8 ft with round label and Theresa McTavish, 1968.
Similar models surfed by Keys and Brock in George Greenough 's
Innermost Limits of Pure Fun, 1970. Part 1.
Photograph : George Greenough
Moving Forward : A Greenough Scrapbook 1960 - 1970
Australian Surfer's
Journal, Vol 2 Number 2, Autumn 1999, page 102.
Apparently short lived as all were involved with Wilderness Surfboards,
Byron Bay by 1969.
The brand next noticed circa 1975 using new decal designs
- an enhanced BARE NATURE text
- a black on clear graphic of Broken Head.
- two-tone text in a horizontal diamond (image below, left)
1979 - 15 Browning Street, Byron Bay. Phone : (068) 85
6720.
Shaper :Nigel Perrow.
Glasser : Mark Plegghorn. |
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"Pintail and roundtail wingers. Single fins only."
Tracks magazine, December 1979, page 44.
1986 - 15 Browning Street, Byron Bay
Shapers : Nigel Perrow. (?) and Wayne Riordan
Circa 1990
Moved to Western Australia.
DESIGN HISTORY
COMMENTS
REFERENCES:
Magazine
CONDITION: 7 |
 
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