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1969 Peter Drouyn 6 ft 3 '' Diamondtail

#218

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Possibly...
Hayden Surfboards, 164 Alexandra Parade, Alexandra Headland, Queensland, or
Gordon Woods Surfboards, 208 Harbord Road Brookvale NSW
SHAPER: Peter Drouyn
DESIGN: Diamond tail
DESIGNER: Peter Drouyn

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Stringerless foam blank, Volan glassed with 1 1/2 inch rail lap, Waveset fin box, spray markings.
DIMENSIONS

*Length:*	6	feet	3 1/2	inches	Ld : 6 ft	2 3/4''
*Width:*	20 1/2	inches		*Wide Point:*	+ 3	inches
*Nose :*	14 1/2	inches		*Tail:*	15	inches
*Thickness:*	3	inches		*Pod:*	9 1/2	inches
*Weight:*	light !	kilos		*Volume:*		litres
*Nose/L:*		inches		*Tail/L:*		inches
*Diamond Tail:*	1 1/2	inches

FEATURES
Nose: Rounded pin
Tail: Diamond.
Deck: Rolled
Bottom: Slighty rounded hull -light Vee around fin to tail.
Rails: 50/50 pinched - high at the nose and low at tail
Rocker: gentle with nose lift

FIN
Fin Box
12'' x 2 '' @ 7 1/2'' Waveset
Fin - broken
3 1/2'' x 8 '' base x ? '' span @ 10''
Molded plastc, Stainless steel bolts,

See images left and below.

DECOR
DECALS
Deck
Peter Drouyn
- black text , left of forward sweet spot.
Bottom
MARKINGS
Deck:
Bottom: DROUYN - multi-coloured spray paint on blank , large.
COLOUR
Deck: Clear with volan rail lap.
Bottom : Clear with volan rail lap.

Waveset fin box and fin base.

Sustitute fin to fit Waveset finbox.

9 1/2'' x 6'' base x 11 1/2'' span @ 10''

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Obtained from council cleanup, Ocean Avenue, Wonoona, NSW.
Purchased 20th December 2004.
Dimensions and photographs 22 December 2004
The deck has many fractures, dings, staining.and major delamination at the tail.
This is largely due to the extreme light weight glassing.
Also many crude repairs.
The bottom has several minor dings and a chips out of the nose and tail.
The fin is broken and the finbox has cracks.

MANUFACTURER HISTORY
See Hayden Surfboards and/or
Gordon Woods Surfboards
SHAPER HISTORY
See Peter Drouyn
COMMENTS
A radical design of the period (-note the light weight) from a noted surfer shaper.

REFERENCES
Books
Warshaw, Matt :The Encyclopedia of Surfing 2004
Pages 166 to 167.
Note - The entry excludes Peter Drouyn's win at Makaha in 1971, howerver it is listed in the entry for the Makaha International Surfing championships, page 358.
Film
1967 May The Hot Generation Paul Witzig.
1967 High on a Cool Wave, Bob Evans.
1970 Evolution Paul Witzig.
1973 Drouyn Bob Evans - note that all Bob Evans films, many others featuring Peter Drouyn are not available on video/DVD.
1974 On Any Morning David Sumpter
Magazines
1. Chris Brystom : Peter Drouyn : The Missing Link - Interview
Pacific Longboarder Magazine, Volume 1 Number 3 1997. Pages 26 to 39.
Image left, Uncredited, page 35
2. Tim Baker : Too Long In Exile... Peter Drouyn.
Deep Magazine, Issue 10, Autum 1997. Pages 14 to 21, and 67.

Peter Drouyn's 1970
Australian Titles and
World Contest`Board
Uncredited photogaph
PBL Magazine Vol 1 No3
Page 35

DESIGN HISTORY EDIT!!!
Following the failure of the wide-tailed Vee bottom experiment in Hawaii December1967 plan shapes became the focus of design
In early 1968 some designs merely added a pintail - the Pintail Vee bottom - see #107
This was quickly abandoned, and as the year progressed plan shapes literally reversed to a fully foiled gun derived template.
Wide points moved dramatically forward (up to +ve 12'') and tails narrowed, with three main variations.
Bottom features, particually Vee, were much less extreme but 50/50 rails were retained
Many boards were stringerless, but the newly introduced coloured resin glue-line stringer was also widely used.
Volan fibreglass was an industry standard and the boards usually have identifiable laminated rail overlaps, often with deck and/or fin patches.
Fins usually were large Greenough-influenced flex fins, with advanced placement towards the nose.
The first commercially available finboxes were introduced in 1968 - WAVESET (by Morey-Pope) and SAFESET (by Fins Unlimited) - from the USA.
These were fitted with a selection of molded plastic fins.
See Pintail #96 Roundtail #171 and Tracker #108
The three models were illustrated in Surfing World Volume 12 No. 1 1969...
CONDITION: 3

CORRESPONDENCE
A* wrote, 25 Sep 2004, and my reply January 2005...
Gudday Geoff.
I like your site and have looked at it more times than many...i am a big fan of Australian surfing history and live up near Byron.

- Thankyou.

I have been working on a story on Drouyn and... to be fair...how come his 1970 makaha win isnt on your site....or his 1970 Aust titles?? Or his second in the bells 4 times/? or second at the smirnoff?

- they will be at next upload, (March 2005?)
- can only find Bell's 2nd for 1971, 1974 and 1977.
- until I am satisfied that my work on the period 1900-1915 is complete, other areas with be dealt with as required.
References
Books
Warshaw, Matt :The Encyclopedia of Surfing 2004
Pages 166 to 167.
Note - The entry excludes Peter Drouyn's win at Makaha in 1971, howerver it is listed in the entry for the Makaha International Surfing Championships, page 358.
Magazines
1. Chris Brystom : Peter Drouyn : The Missing Link - Interview
Pacific Longboarder Magazine, Volume 1 Number 3 1997. Pages 26 to 39.
2. Tim Baker : Too Long In Exile... Peter Drouyn.
Deep Magazine, Issue 10, Autum 1997 Pages 14 to 21, and 67.
Film
1967 May The Hot Generation Paul Witzig.
1967 High on a Cool Wave, Bob Evans.
1970 Evolution Paul Witzig.
1973 Drouyn Bob Evans - note that all Bob Evans films, many others featuring Peter Drouyn are not available on video/DVD.

Just interested, cas doing the research...i mean drouyn isnt on surfline either....or surf info...its bizarre?? Did he shag lots of peoples sisters or something??

By focusing my work on surfboards, I have attempted to avoid the cult of personality.
If Drouyn has been underestimated by the media, he is certainly not the only one.
Some claims in PLB article noted above are contentious, others simply unverifiable.
Bob Evan's Drouyn, 1973, would hardly indicate a lack of media exposure.
re : other areas with be dealt with as required
I have recently accessed a Peter Drouyn surfboard, circa 1969.
Catalogue entry currently in preparation, some already uploaded.
#00000218
Any comments on this board are welcome.

Hope everything is going nice
A*

Thank you - Geoff
* Name withheld at writer's request.