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the catalogue #150

1975 Belly Booger 3 ft 7''

#150

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Belly Booger Pty. Ltd.
SHAPER: Unknown/molded
DESIGN: Bellyboard
DESIGNER: Unknown

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Hollow Molded plastic
DIMENSIONS

*Length:*	3	foot	7	inches
*Width:*	19 3/4	inches		*Wide Point:*	+ 4	inches
*Nose :*	19	inches		*Tail:*	18	inches
*Thickness:*	2 1/4	inches		*Pod:*	9	inches
*Nose/L:*	2 1/2	inches		*Tail/L:*	x	inches
*Weight:*		kilograms		*Volume:*		litres
*Other:*

FEATURES
Nose: semi pin
Tail: chamfered rounded square
Deck: concave/spooned with molded leg rope hole.
Bottom: Rounded hull leading to flat with twin chinned rail channels.
Rails: rounded bevelled
Rocker: miminal nose lift

FINS: Twin molded rounded keel fins molded to board

DECOR
DECALS:
Deck:
'Belly Booger' Script and 'Reg. Design 74551' text molded at nose
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck:
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: Blue
Bottom: Blue

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Robert Bell collection, Photographs February 2001.
The board is in poor condition and the shell has badlly deformed. Thorough analysis of rail and bottom features is speculative, the fins now tip in due to bottom deformation.
DESIGN HISTORY
Plastic molded version of the juvenile paipo/bellyboard.
Re marketed as The Surferbooger, January 1976
- Ad TRACKS magazine January 1981 Number 124, Page 4
Dick Ash Designs, PO Box 124 Avalon 2107 Phone (02) 9180021
125 cm x 55 cm $99.00
Featured Roger Casey (K.C. Surfboards) riding stand-up.
COMMENTS
REFERENCES
Other Boards: See Paipo Catalogue for other craft.

CONDITION: 5.5

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