surfresearch.com.au  the catalogue #103

FEATURES Nose: round  Tail:  round  Deck:   rolled  Bottom:  flat?  Rails: 50/50 tending down in the tail  Rocker:

DECOR DECALS Deck: Large ' Wayne Lynch Involvment/J.A. Surfboards' red/yellow at front sweet spot, above.  Decal image right, courtesy of http://www.surfcrazy.com/stanleys/html/logos.html Bottom: MARKINGS Deck: Wayne Lynch   7' 9"   1007 - pencil on blank.  Bottom: COLOUR Deck: clear  Bottom:

DESIGN HISTORY:
John Arnold Surfboards
John Arnold Surfboards started in South Australia in the late 1950s and, principally through licensing O’Neill Wetsuits (USA), was a major company in the 1960s surf industry.
An advertisment for John Arnold Surfboards, late 1969 lists the shapers as Wayne Lynch, Wayne Dale and Sig Kwiatkowski.
I assume Dale and Kwiatkowski were responsible for the production boards.
An J.A. advertisment late 1970 notes the 'designers' as Wayne Lynch and Wayne Dale and they are available in "All states of Australia -  East and West coast USA - England - France".
Export models were often fitted with fin boxes to faciliate freighting, first with Waveset (one USA circa 1969 example noted, August 2008) and later Simplex fins and boxes.
A Klemm-Bell Sufboards, Torquay, advertisment for mid-late 1971 offers "Wayne Lynch Hand Shapes and
Designs".
Presumably by now the contact with John Arnold Surfboards had ceased.

Wayne Lynch
Said to have single handedly revolutionised backhand surfing, Wayne Lynch won the European Title in 1968, the Australian Junior Men’s Title 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970, and the Bells Beach Junior Title 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969.
After an outstanding competitive record as a junior, began shaping circa 1967, see below.
He starred in Paul Witzig’s films Evolution 1968 (Wayne Lynch rides at least seven different boards in this film, shot in about12 months; illustrating the rapid design changes in this period) and Sea of Joy 1971.

COMMENTS
An excellent example of this design in near original condition (except for the leg rope plug, still waxed) by one of Australia’s most famous surfers.
Note that "Invovlment" is spelt  incorrectly on the decal and in advertising copy, it should be Involvement.
The template image is not square due to obsuring objects on display.
Template image is poor and there is no image of the markings.

REFERENCES Other John Arnold Surfboards #225 1970 Wayne Lynch Involvment 6ft 4'' Books  Carter: Surf Beaches (1968), Cover photograph of Wayne Lynch and Keith Paull (going right). Paull was the 1968 Australian champion, Lynch the Junior champion. Young: Nat’s Nat (1998) page 177, and following. Walding: Surf-o-rama (2008) pages 42 to 45. Magazines Advertisement: Surf International magazine 1969 Vol 2 #6. Film : Evolution 1968 Paul Witzig Sea of Joy 1971. Paul Witzig On Any Morning  1974  David Sumpter,  Fall Line 1979  Nat Young,  CONDITION: 9, shame about the plug.

Scanned photograph is a rare early shot of Wayne Lynch, circa 1965 Probably Barrie Sutherland from Pollard, Jack (ed.) :Ampol’s Sporting Records,  page 607. Needs to be bigger.-ed.

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