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the catalogue #103

1969 Wayne Lynch Double Ender 7 ft 9"

#103

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: John Arnold Surfboards, 142 Gawler Place Adelaide South Australia
SHAPER: Wayne Lynch (?)
DESIGN: Double Ender ' Wayne Lynch Involvment'
DESIGNER: Wayne Lynch

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank with red Glue-line stringer, volan glassed with oval knee-patch.
Post production legrope plug r/h added in 1987.
DIMENSIONS

*Length:*	7	feet	9	inches
*Width:*	23 ¼	inches		*Wide Point:*	n/a	inches
*Nose :*		inches		*Tail :*		inches
*Thickness:*	2 ¾" (est.)	inches		*Pod:*	0	inches
*Nose/L:*		inches		*Tail/L:*		inches
*Weight:*		kilo		*Volume:*		litres
*Other*

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

FIN/S: 10" (est.) GreenoughStage III, orange laminated.

DECOR
DECALS
Deck: Large ' Wayne Lynch Involvment/J.A. Surfboards' red/yellow at front sweet spot
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck: Wayne Lynch 7' 9" 1007 - pencil on blank.
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: clear
Bottom:

Decal image courtesy of http://www.surfcrazy.com/stanleys/html/logos.html

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY:
Catalogue #00004450 Puchased/donated 17/11/1988.
Australian National Maritime Museum 2 Murray Street Darling Harbor, Sydney NSW 2001, Australia
See Notes on ANMM.
Exhibited : Surf ! Enviroment Politics and Life 1960 - 1985.
La Perouse Museum, The Cable Station, Botany Bay National Park, Sydney.
12 December 1997 - 13 June 1998.
Curator : Stephen Thompson/NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Photographs by Bob Gumley.
Dimensions, with difficulty by Geoff Cater - with no tape measure, I measured in multiples of a available notebook, and later re-calulated these figures into feet and inches.
This method was unsuitable to calculate any but the basic length and width.

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 Sid 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". These overseas boards must have
been made under liscence.
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 - 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(1968)Cover photograph with Keith Paull (going right).
Paull was the 1968 Australian champion, Wayne Lynch the Junior champion.
Nat’s Nat (1998) page 177, and following.
Magazine Ad : 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.

Early Wayne Lynch shaped board, circa 1967.
Possibly the first.
Jimi Hendrix influenced art work by Simon Buttershaw.
7 ft x 23 inches @ 12 inches
Nose 17 inches. Tail 17 3/4 inches
Features : Full Vee bottom, deepest at tail. Chamfered diamond tail.
Note : Small square tail is obsured by grass.
Fin appears to be in a box (unusual for the period), or reset, or non-original.
Image cropped and digitally manipulated from
Australian Long Boarding Number 19 January/February 200? page 59
Photograph by Bob Smith

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.