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the catalogue #84

1978 Bronzed Aussies/Cheyne Horan, 5ft 10"

# 84

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Gordon and Smith Surfboards Captain Cook Drive Caringbah NSW
SHAPER: Terry Bishop
DESIGN: Cheyne Horan Design Double Flyer roundtail
DESIGNER: Cheyne Horan/Geoff McCoy

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Fibreglassed foam blank, 1/4" redwood stringer, spray, 9 1/2" fin box, r/h plug

DIMENSIONS

*Length :*	6	ft	1 1/2	inches	*L2:*
*Width :*	19 3/8	inches		*Wide Point :*	+ve1	inches
*Nose :*	13 1/4	inches		*Tail :*	14	inches
*Thickness :*	2 7/8	inches		*Pod :*		inches
*Nose Lift :*		inches		*Tail Lift :*		inches
*Weight :*		kilos		*Volume :*		litres
*Flyers :*	6	inches	@ 11 1/2	inches

FEATURES
Nose: pin
Tail: double flyer round
Deck: flat
Bottom: light vee,flat, slight Vee
Rails: soft down rail
Rocker:

FIN 9 1/2'' fin box/ no fin.

DECOR
DECAL/S
Deck
1. Cheyne Horan Design - text in black Circle/star at nose.
2. Bronzed Aussies - Largescript and Australian flag/Wave logo at sweet spot.
3.Terry Bishop - black script at tail
Bottom
1. Cheyne Horan Design - text in black Circle/star at nose.
2. Bronzed Aussies - Largescript and Australian flag/Wave logo at sweet spot.
MARKINGS
Deck: 9777 pencil on stringer, rear from centre.
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: clear with spray dark pink nose split wing panels and black pinlines
Bottom: clear with spray light blue nose split wing panels and black pinlines

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Purchased 8 December 1999 LineUp Surf Shop 128 The Stand, Dee Why, Sydney NSW.
No fin.
Severe cracking to bottom.
Tail repaired with Q-cells.
One of several boards shaped by Terry Bishop at Gordon and Smith Surfboards for Cheyne Horan as a member of the Bronzed Aussies.
Breaking a longstanding relationship with McCoy Surfboards, Cheyne Horan would return there within a year.
REFERENCES
Previous Owner: Brett Curtis, Harbord NSW
Books
Cassidy : Greats of Australian Surf pages 32 -36.
Magazines
Advertisement
Bronze Aussies in Tracks magazine July 1978 - designs by Ian Cairns, Peter Townend and Cheyne Horan
Article
Drew Kampion : Profile : Cheyne Horan in Surfing magazine Vol 17 # 7 March 1981 pages 56 - 65.
CONDITION: 4.

Photograph right : Flame,
edited from photograph reprinted in
Surfing magazine
Vol 20 # 3 March 1984 page 122

Cheyne Horan,
Photograph by Jeff Hornbaker
Surfer magazineVol 29 No 9
September 1988
Credited as 1979 ?

Cheyne Horan,
Photograph : Uncredited
Surfing magazine Vol 15 No 7 page 8.
September 1979

Cheyne Horan, Off the Wall, circa 1978
Photograph by Peter Crawford
Surfer magazineVol 20 No 4, April 1979

Record sleeve:
Surfin' Reggae, circa 1978.
Photograph by Peter Crawford