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1975      Belly Bogger         3 ft 7'' #150


MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Belly Bogger Pty. Ltd.
SHAPER:  Unknown- moulded 
DESIGN: Belly-board
DESIGNER: Dick Ash
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
 Hollow Moulded plastic
DIMENSIONS

Length:
3 foot
7
inches

Width:
19 .75
inches
Wide Point: 
+ 4
inches
Nose : 
19 inches
Tail: 
18
inches
Thickness: 
2 .25
inches
Pod: 
9
inches
Nose/L:
2 .5
inches
Tail/L:
x
inches
Weight:

kilograms
Volume:

litres
Other:






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

FINS:
Twin moulded rounded keel fins moulded to board

DECOR
DECALS:
Deck:
Belly Bogger script and Reg. Design 74551 text  moulded 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 moulded version of the juvenile paipo/bellyboard. 
Re marketed as The Surferbogger, 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
Adam Williams: Belly Bogger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpQESASrfmw

Other Boards: See Paipo Catalogue for other prone craft. 

CONDITION: 5.5

















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