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1973 Mystic Expression  Keel fin  7 ft 
#222
MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Mystic Expessions Surfboards
SHAPER: Unknown
DESIGN:  Keel fin pintail
DESIGNER: Pat Morgan, as ridden by Nat young and Wayne Lynch, circa 1972.
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank,  stringer?,  two colour pigment Volan laminate.
DIMENSIONS
Length :
 7
 ft   inches L2: 6ft 11.5''
Width :
 16 .75
 inches
Wide Point :
 +ve 8 
 inches
Nose :
 10
 inches
Tail :
 7
 inches
Thickness :
 3
 inches
Pod :
 0
 inches
Nose Lift :
 4 .5
 inches
Tail Lift :
 2
 inches
Weight :
   kilos
Volume :
   litres
Other :
   inches

 
FEATURES
Nose: round, very thin
Tail:  rounded diamond
Deck:   S deck,  flat section from sweet spot to tail with chine above the rail line.
Bottom:
Rails:
Rocker:

Rocker Profile : All inches
Lb:
 84
Ld: 
 83 1/2
Lf:
 83





Nose Lift:  4 1/2
N1:
 2 3/4
N2:
 1 1/2
N3:
 1
N4:
 3/8 N5:
Tail Lift: 2
T1:
 1 1/2
T2:
 1
T3:
 1/2
T4:
 1/4 T5:

FIN
Keel fin
opaque laminated,
 5'' x 15 1/2'' base. @ 1 1/2''
Thin light foil.
DECOR
DECALS
Deck: None
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck: Mystic Expression Surfboards - pencil along stringer at wide point.
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: Orange pigment laminate with purple rail lap. White pin-lines
Bottom: Purple pigment laminate with winged white pin-lines
NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Added to the surfresearch.com.au collection, April 2006.
The previous owner, Jason Davies of Cooran, Queensland reported ...
The board was found in the backyard of a client I had at Coolum Beach,
and was obtained by me about 7 years ago.
I have never used it, and always thought it would look great on a wall.
It doesn't appear to have ever been waxed and I can't say if it has ever been used.
COMMENTS
Given the narrow width, the board is possibly the result of Backyard Butchery - a larger  board stripped of it's fibreglass, reshaped and re-glassed.
This was a common practise in this period.
Alternatively, it could have been made in the mid-late 1970s as a Skurfer, designed to the ridden while towed by a speed-boat.
A precursor of the modern wake-board, these were first popularised in New Zealand, as shown in Breakway, December 1975.


 REFERENCES:
Alby Falzon: Crystal Voyager (1973).
A portrait of  George Greenough as surfer, fisherman, sailor, designer and builder.
Apart from a crowded Rincon sequence, the only surfers are George Greenough (mat and spoons, red and black) , Nat Young (8 ft Pat Morgan Surfboards Keel, green) and Ritchie West ( 6 ft egg, clear).
Locations: Northern Califorinia and Channel Islands.
Final sequence was Greenough’s Echoes.
Poster image.
CONDITION: 6


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