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the catalogue #67

1969 Surf Design Tracker 7 ft

#67

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Surf Design Surfboards, Gold Coast Queensland
SHAPER: Dick Van Straleen
DESIGN: Tracker
DESIGNER: Dick Van Straleen/Bob McTavish

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank with triple (3) black Glue-line stringers, volan glassed with foil knee-patch. Safe-set fin box
DIMENSIONS

*Length :*	7	ft	0	inches
*Width :*	18 1/2	inches		*Wide Point :*	+ 6	inches
*Nose :*	13 1/2	inches		*Tail :*	10 1/2	inches
*Thickness :*	2 1/2	inches		*Pod :*	2	inches
*Nose Lift :*		inches		*Tail Lift :*		inches
*Weight :*		kilos		*Volume :*		litres
*Other, Flyer/s :*		inches

FEATURES:
Nose: rounded pin
Tail: chamfered square - see below
Deck: rolled
Bottom: deep round -lightround- deep vee
Rails: 50/50 tending down in the tail
Rocker:

FIN
8 1/2" x 7"base,
Molded deep base.
Leg rope hole.
Safe set fin box 10 1/2" - cracked
- see below.

DECOR
DECALS
Deck
Surf Design -Queensland text in black Shield logo - see left
Bottom
Surf Design - Queensland text in black
Australian Made - Queensland + Blue ribbon and map, on tail.
- see below
MARKINGS
Deck:
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: clear
Bottom:

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Purchased Gerroa Beach, February 1999.
Dirty, various dings - some repaired, deck delamination, fin held in by rusted screw and gluey substance.
Fin removed, cleaned, volan repairs and polish.
The cracked fin box exposes internal glassing, the box fitted subsequently.
The fin may have been reshaped from the original mold, note removal of rear base section, by the board or the fin manufacturer.
DESIGN HISTORY
The narrow width probably indicates it as one of the last of this design.
Although the template is strictly Hawaiian, probably for Burleigh Heads, the other features (bottom contour, chamfered pod and 50/50 rails) derive directly from the prior Vee bottom design,1967.
The three gluelines compliment the Gun template.
MANUFACTURER'S HISTORY
One of the first labels used by Dick van Straleen (the other being Spirit of the Sea Surfboards) after moving from Sydney in 1969.
COMMENTS
REFERENCES: See # 69 and # 86
CONDITION: 6, cracked fin box.

Cracked Safe-set fin box	Chamfered tail
Bottom decal	Bottom decal - tail