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the catalogue #325

1953 Paipo/Belly Board 2 ft 11"

#325

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Backyard
SHAPER:
DESIGN: Paipo/Belly Board - Twin fin
DESIGNER: Unknown

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Five ply. Paint. Varnished. Branded image and script..
DIMENSIONS

*Length:*	2	feet	11	inches
*Width:*	23 1/2	inches		*Wide Point, from nose :*	-ve 10	inches
*Nose :*	n/a	inches		*Tail:*'	n/a	inches
*Thickness:*	1/2	inches		*Pod:*	15	inches
*Weight/*		inches		*Volume:*		inches
*Nose/L:*	0	inches		*Tail/L:*		inches

FEATURES
Nose: semi pin/round
Tail: Concave
Deck: Flat.
Bottom: flat
Rails: rounded square
Rocker: miminal/nil nose lift

FINS:
Two, 3 3/4" x 9 3/4" base @ 2 1/2 inches
Long base keel fins
1/2 '' thick plywood timber
Probably mitred and glued.

DECOR
DECALS:
Deck:Three Adhesive stickers.
Skull and crossbones graphic with text, Speed King. Water soaked, Probably added during manufacture.
Black Foot grahic with text, Barefoot. Paper/vinyl, probably post production.
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck: nil
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: Red racing stripes, right hand side. Note parrallel to rails, not centre.
Bottom: clear/natural

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Dimensions and photographs Sydney Surf Auction, Harbord Diggers Club, Sydney, 29 October 2006.
Catalogue No. 225
" BELLYBOARD IN PLYWOOD c1950's 9/10
Crude tomstone shape twin keel fins, rope handles. IRB inscription with fun 'Kilroy' style artwork on deck."
Catalogue Notes by Mick Mock, PO Box 330 Manly NSW Australia 2095.
Thanks to Mick Mock.
COMMENTS:
REFERENCES
Other Boards
See Paipo # 113 ,
Surfworld Museum, Torquay Victoria. : Lamaroo # 26
See Paipo Catalogue
Books
Margan and Finney Photographs, pages 152 - 156
CONDITION: 9.5

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3204 Plywood belly board, Margan and Finney 1970 page 156

Plywood belly board, Margan and Finney Page 156 Leigh Tingle reports...
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.