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| MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Unknown (USA?) SHAPER: Unknown DESIGN: Paipo/Belly Board - Twin fin DESIGNER: Unknown |
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| SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION balsa blocks with redwood stringers laminated to form blank. Fibreglassed. Timber hand grip. DIMENSIONS
Nose: round Tail: Square Deck: Vee shaped hand grip near nose Bottom: Rails: flat Rocker: miminal nose lift |
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| FIN/S: Two Dee/Rounded keel, Glassed timber, 3 1/2" x 8" base | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DECOR
DECALS: Deck: Bottom: red 1961 Surfcraft registration sticker, # 1472 - (Waverly?) in front of fins MARKINGS Deck: Bottom: COLOUR Deck: clear Bottom: clear with red 1961 Surfcraft registration sticker, # 1472 - Waverly? |
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| NOTES
HISTORY Exhibited : Surf! Enviroment Politics and Life 1960 - 1985. Laperouse Museum, The Cable Station, Botany Bay National Park, Sydney. 12 December 1997 - 13 June 1998. Curator : Stephen Thompson/NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Exhibition Credit : "Kneeboard, c.1956 USA Fibre glass on balsa wood". Photograph by Bob Gumley. COMMENTS: Unlikely a 'Kneeboard' - note thickness and hand grip. REFERNCES Other Boards Plywood Paipo #204 Surfworld Museum, Torquay Victoria. : Lamaroo # 26 Also see Paipo Catalogue Books Margan and Finney photographs pages 152 - 156 CONDITION: 9.5  |
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Plywood belly board with hand grip, Margan and Finney 1970 Page 156 The photo at bottom of page of a bellyboard rider is me. Taken at Haliewa Oahu January 1964 using an existing balsa fibreglass bellyboard made by Scott Dillon, Noel Ward and Gordon Woods in February 1958. It is now 43 years old and still going strong. If I remember correctly the photograph was from the Surfabout magazine. A replica of the board has just been finsihed by my son Sam for a school Tutorial Task. Many thanks, Leigh. |
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