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the catalogue #530

1952 George Downing's Finned Balsa 10ft

#530

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: George Downing
SHAPER: George Downing
DESIGN: Fibreglassed Balsawood with fin
DESIGNER: George Downing

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Balsa wood laminated blank with three redwood stringers, fibreglassed,
finbox, fitted timber and fibreglass fin.
DIMENSIONS

*Length:*	10	feet	0	inches
*Width:*	20 1/8	inches		*Wide Point :*	+ ve	inches
*Nose :*	14	inches		*Tail :*	11	inches
*Thickness :*	n/a	inches		*Pod :*	0	inches
*Nose/L :*		inches		*Tail/L:*
*Weight :*	40	pounds		*Volume :*		litres
*Other :*

FEATURES
Nose: roundpin
Tail: square pin
Deck: flat n/a
Bottom: convex n/a
Rails: rounded square n/a
Rocker: nose lift

Left :

FIN:
Finbox, see below.
Fitted timber and fibreglass fin.

DECOR
DECAL: none
MARKINGS: none
COLOUR : clear

IMAGE HISTORY

BOARD HISTORY

DESIGN HISTORY

George Downing, Walter Hoffman and Buzzy Trent. 1952.
Warshaw : Mavericks, page 26.


*Williams and Trent, Makaha Hut, 1952.* Warshaw : Mavericks, page 26.	*Hut interior with boards in rafters.* Kampion :Stoked , page 26.

Classic men, classic equipment :
John Kelly, Wally Froiseth, George Downing,
credited with reinventing the big wave surfboard in 1936.
Photograph : Gary Lynch
Surfer Magazine
Vol 30 No. 10 1989, page 106.

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