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the catalogue #56

1970 Farrelly Pintail 6 ft 3 1/2" # 1562

#56

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Farrelly Surfboards, 230 Harboard Road Brookvale Sydney
SHAPER: Unknown (possibly Warren Cornish ( - see below)
DESIGN: Pin tail
DESIGNER: Midget Farrelly

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank with 1/8 inch plywood stringer, clear volan laminate with 1/2 inch rail lap.
Foil deck to tail patch. Tail patch.Fin patch.
Post production legrope hole in deck (left hand side) and plug (right hand side)
DIMENSIONS

*Length :*	6	ft	6	inches	Ld: 6ft	5''
*Width :*	18 1/4	inches		*Wide Point :*	+ve 3	inches
*Nose :*	12	inches		*Tail :*	11 1/2	inches
*Thickness :*	3	inches		*Pod :*	0	inches
*Nose Lift :*		inches		*Tail Lift :*		inches
*Weight :*		kilos		*Volume :*		litres
*Other :*

FEATURES
Nose: Pin
Tail: diamond
Deck: S-deck, domed
Bottom: flat,
Rails: Down rail with hard edge, nose to tail
Rocker: Two phase - Marked nose lift to wide point, then flat to tail.

FIN
8 1/2 inch x 6 1/2 inch base x 9 1/2 span @ 5 1/2 inches.
Green laminate with fin patch
High aspect Greenough

DECOR
DECALS
Deck
Farrelly/address - black script at sweet spot.
With stamped serial number, 1562.
See right
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck:
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: Clear
Bottom:

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Photographs January 2005.
DESIGN HISTORY
At a cost of $125.00, it was a premium product trading on Midget Farrelly's designs and an immaculate finish that set the benchmark for the rest of the industry.
REFERENCES
Other Farrelly Boards
#46 1969 Farrelly, Square tail 6 ft 4"
#214 1969 Farrelly, Diamond tail 6 ft 4"
#54 1971 Farrelly Pop-out 5ft 5"
#34 1972 Midget Farrelly, Coolite 4 ft 10" Rubber fin
Magazine:.
CONDITION: 5,

Image right,
Midget Farrelly
circa 1969
Photograph from
Farrelly Surfboards Advertisement
Palm Beach PO NSW 2108
Phone 919-5169
Surfing World Magazine
Vol 12 No. 1 1969 Page ?

Note similarities in template to #56.

Board # 5 : Farrelly Rounded pintail, 7 ft 6'' Clear deck, Violet bottom, 28 November 1969 Receipt No. 22.
Narrow base fin fibreglassed into fin box - note minimal rovings.
Photograph Betty Cater, Summer 1970

# 45 Farrelly script '69