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1515 Leonardo da Vinci : Hydrodynamics
Extracted from
1765 John Byron : Tuamotus and the Gilbert Islands
Extracts from Byron in Hawkesworth: Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, (1773), Volume 1?
1767 Wallis :Tahiti
Extracts from Wallis in Hawkesworth: Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, (1773), Volume 1?
1768 Louis Antoine de Bougainville : Surfriding in Tahiti.
The first (probable) European report of surf-riding.
See
Roussel, 2005.
1769 Joseph Banks : Surfriding in Tahiti.
One of the earliest European reports of surf-riding.
Originally recorded on 29th May 1769, published in 1773.
1769 Sydney Parkinson :Tahiti.
Extracts from Journal of a Voyage to South Seas, Stanfield Parkinson, London 1773.
1777   William Anderson : Canoe Surfriding in Tahiti.
Canoe surfriding recorded by from a surgeon on Cook's third Pacific voyage, 1776 to 1780.
1778 James Cook's Marineers : Hawai'i.
Accounts of surfboards from Cook's first visit to  Hawai'i in 1778.
1779  James King and Marineers : Hawai'i.
Accounts of surfboards and surf-riding from Cook's final visit to  Hawai'i in 1779.
1788 William Bligh : Surfriding in Tahiti
Extracted from
Bowker, R.M. and Bligh, Lt. William: Mutiny!! Aboard HM Armed Transport 'Bounty' in 1789
Bowker and Bertram Ltd. Old Bosham, Sussex, England 1978.
1788 James Morrison : Surfriding in Tahiti
Extracted from Journal on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, 1787-1792
Mitchell Library, Sydney.- A detailed account of surfriding in Tahiti.
1788  William Bradley : Eora (Aboriginal) Canoes at Spring Cove.
Extracted from The Ladies Kept Their Distance, in
Tim Flannery : The Birth of Sydney. Pages 54 to 55. 
1792 George Tobin : Surfriding in Tahiti
Extracted from Journal on HMS Providence, 1791-1793
State Library of New South Wales 2003 1792 
1800 James Wilson: Surfriding in Tahiti
Extracted from A Missionary voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798. 1799, in the Ship Duff ...
T. Chapman, 1799. (1813). Pages 72-73. .
1821 Hiram Bingham : Surfriding.
Extracted from A Residence Of Twenty-one Years In The Sandwich Islands, Or, The Civil, Religious, And Political History Of Those Islands.
Hezekiah Huntington, Hartford CT;1847  Chapter VI: 1821  Pages 136 and 137.
1824 Charles Stewart : Surf-riding at Lahaina, Maui.
Extracted from Journal of Residence in the Sandwich Islands, 1924 - 1925.
Fisher, Son and Jackson, London, 1829.  Pages 196 to 197.
1825 Lord Byron: Liliah and Floatboards.
Extracted from Voyage of the 'H.M.S. Blonde' to the Sandwich Islands in the Years 1825-26.
John Murray, Albemable Street, London.  1826. Pages 97, 137 and 138, 166, 206 to 209.
1828 Teuira Henry : Surfriding, Swimming and Diving in Tahiti.
Extracted from Ancient Tahiti, Bernice P. Bishop Mueseum, Honolulu, Hawaii, ,
Bulletin 48. Based on material collected by J. M. Orsmond.
1830 Rev.William Ellis : Surf-riding at Waimanu.
Extracted from Polynesian Researches
Fisher, Son and Jackson, London, 1831. Volume IV Pages 368 to 372.
1838 David Malo : Surfriding.
 Extracted from Hawaiian Antiquities
1843 James Jarves: Hawaiian History
Extracted from History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands
James Munroe and Company, 134 Washington-Street, Boston.1843.
1843 Sheldon Dibble: Hawaiian Water Sports
Extracted from History of the Sandwich Islands.
Press of the Mission  Seminary, Lahainaluna,1843.
1845 P.H. Gosse: The Ocean
Extracted from The Ocean
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London 1845.
1847 George Angas: New Zealand Canoes.
Extracted from Savage Life And Scenes In Australia And New Zealand.
Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1847.
1849 Herman Melville: Rare Sport at Ohonoo.
Extracted from Mardi and A Voyage Thither.
Richard Bentley, London, 1849. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1849.
Chapter XC, pages 325 to 237 (?).
1850 Lt. Henry Wise: Surfriding at Lahaina
Extracted from Los Gringos: or An inside view of Mexico and California with wanderings in
Peru, Chile and Polynesia.
Baker & Scribner,1850, Chapter XLI, pages 352 to 354.
1851 Rev. Cheever : Surfriding at Lahaini.
Extracted from Life in the Sandwich Islands, or the Heart of the Pacific, as it was and as it is.
A.S. Barnes and Co., New York and H.W. Derby, Cincinnati. 1856. Pages 66 to 69. 
1852 Mrs E.M. Parker : Surfriding at Waikiki.
Extracted from The Sandwich Islands as they are, not as they should be.
Burgess, Gilbert & Still, San Francisco, 1852. Page 15. 
1854 Edward Perkins : Surfriding Lesson.
Extracted from Na Motu: Or, Reef-rovings in the South Seas.
Pudney & Russell, London, Garret and Co., New York, 1854.
1855 George Colvocoresses : Surfriding in Hawaii.
 Extracted from Four years in the government exploring expedition.
 J. M. Fairchild & Co., New York, 1855.
1859 Thomas Warren : Dust and Foam in Hawaii.
Extracted from Dust and foam; or, Three oceans and two continents.
C. Scribner, New York, 1859.
1864 Charles Stoddard : Surfriding in Maui.
Extracted from Summer Cruising in the South Seas.
Chatto and Windus, London. 1874. Pages 
1865 H. Willis Baxley : Wakiki and Hilo.
Extracted from What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian islands.
D. Appleton & Company, 1865.
1867 Charles Steedman: Native Swimming, Wave Mechanics and Surfboards
Extracted from Manual of Swimming:
Henry Tolman Dwight, Bourke Street, Melbourne. Lockwood and Co, London. 1867
Pages 44, 193, 194, 264 to 269.
1870 John Papa Il : Board, Canoe and Body Surfriding, Diving.
Extracted from Fragments of Hawaiian History
Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawaii. 968117.
Pages 6, 7-8, 20, 50-51, 55, 63, 64-66, 67, 69, 72, 82, 95,107,109, 110, 132 to 137, and157-158.
1871 Samuel Kamakua : Ruling Chiefs of Hawai.
Extracts from The Kamehameha Schools Press, Honolulu, 1961.
1873 Isabella L. Bird : Surfriding at Waikiki, Hilo and Kauai.
Extracted from Six Months in the Sandwich Isles
John Murray, London, 1875. Pages 14, 36-37, 69-70, 203, 281-282.
1873 Charles Nordhoff : Surfriding at Hilo.
Extracted from Northern California, Oregon and the Sandwich Islands
Harpers and Brothers, New York, 1874. Pages ?
1874 Charles de Varigny  : Jeux Havaiens (Hawaiians Playing).
Extracted from "Voyage Aux Iles Sandwich (Iles Havai)"
Le Tour du Monde Volume II, 1873, Pages 224, 237and 238.
1878 John Caton  : Surfriding at Hilo, 1878.
Extracted from Miscellanies  Houghton, Osgood & Co. Boston. 1880 Pages 242 to 244.
1880 Rev. John Wood  : Uncivilized Races, 1880.
Extracted from The Uncivilized Races of Men in all Countries of the World
G. Routledge and Sons, London. 1868-80 2 Vol.Pages 168 to169. 
1885 James Greenwood (quoting Rev. Ellis) : Surfriding on Huhaine, 1824/1885.
Extracted from The Wildman at Home: or, Pictures of Life in Savage Lands
Ward, Lock, and Co., Warwick House, Dorset Buildings, Salsbury Square, E.C. circa 1885. Page 110.
 One (1) illustration, page 96. Woodcut and design by Harden S. Melville. Engraved by Newsom Woods.
1888 Thomas W. Knox : Surfriding at Hilo, 1888.
Extracted from The Boy Travellers in Australasia, pages 31 - 33.
1896 Thrum* : Hawaiian Surfriding.
Extracted from Thrum, Thomas G (editor) : Thrum's Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1896.
Honolulu, 1986. pages 106 - 113.
1898 Lucien Young :The Real Hawaii, 1898.
Extracted from The Real Hawaii Doubleday & McClure Co., New York.1898 Pages. 85 - 86
circa 1890  Waverly Borough : Daylight Swimming Ban.
Waverly Shire By-Laws, circa 1890, with hand written annotations, includes By-law 25 that
prohibits bathing between 8 am and 6 pm in Bondi Bay, Nelson Bay and Little Nelson Bay.
Reproduced in Maxwell,  page 16
1891 Henry Adams : Demise of Hawaiian and Tahitian Surfriding.
Extracted from Letters of Henry Adams, Volume 1.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1930.
1909 Rev. Fox : Oceanic Comparatives.
Extracted from Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961.
Volume 42, Art. I, 1909.
1910 "Snowy" Baker : Surf Bathing.
Extracted from General Physical Culture.
Melbourne. G.Robertson & Co., 1910. Pages 54 to 61.
1912 Gordon Inglis: The Joys of the Surf  and Life Saving Clubs.
Extracts from ...
Gordon Inglis : Sport & Pastimes in Australia
Methuen and Co Ltd., 36 Essex Street W.C. London 1912
pages 248 - 252.
1914  Duke Paoa Kahanamoku's Australian Visit : December 1914.
Newspaper extracts from Friday 9th December 1914  - 23rd December 1914.
1914 Duke Kahanamoku : First Demonstration at Freshwater 24th December 1914.
Newspaper extracts from  24th December 1914  - 25th December 1914.
1915 Duke Kahanamoku in Australia : January 1915.
Newspaper extracts from January 1915.
1915 Duke Kahanamoku in Australia : February 1915.
Newspaper extracts from  February 1915.
1917 Charmian London: Surfriding at Waikiki 1907-1917.
Extracts from Our Hawaii
The Macmillan Company, New York and others. 1917.
1917 -1918 The Surf.
Extracts from the first magazine focusing primarily on surfing.
1919 E.M. Newman: Surfriding at Waikiki.
Extracts from The Mentor: Hawaii Volume 5 Number 14 Serial No. 138, 1 September 1917, pages 1 and 5.
1921 S. Percy Smith: Surfriding in New Zealand.
Extracted from The Journal of Polynesian Society Volume XXX Number 1. No. 117, March 1921.
1924 The Hawaiian Islands.
Photograph extracts fom :National Geograghic Magazine February 1924 Volume XLV Number Two.
1929 Dudley Hellmrich: Origin of the Crawl.
Extracted from Dudley Hellmrich: How To Swim. Caxton Printing Works, Sydney, 1929, pages 11 to 15.
1929 Owen E. Griffiths: How to Shoot A Breaker.
Extracted from Dudley Hellmrich: How To Swim. Caxton Printing Works, Sydney, 1929, pages 230 and 231.
1933 Paul W. Gartner : Hawaiian Water Sled (Tom Blake Hollow Board)
Plans and images from
Hawaiian Water Sled is Easy to Build
Modern Mechanix: How to Build It (Annual) 1933. Pages 84, 85 and 86.
1934 Solid wood Bellyboard.
Plans  from ...
Uncredited : Making Money at the Beach
Popular Mechanics Magazine
July 1934 Vol 62 No. 1  page 115 
1935 Redwood - Balsa Laminate Surfboard 11 ft.
Plans  from ...
Hi Sibley : Better Ways to Build Surfboards
Popular ScienceMagazine
August 1935 Vol 127 No,2  page 56
1935. Redwood - Pine Chambered Surfboard 10 ft.
Plans  from ...
Hi Sibley : Better Ways to Build Surfboards
Popular Science Magazine
August 1935 Vol 127 No,2  page 57
1935 Redwood - Pine Mitred and Laminated Prone board 5 ft 7 inches.
Plans ...
from : Hi Sibley : Better Ways to Build Surfboards
in Popular ScienceMagazine
August 1935 Vol 127 No,2 page 57
1935 Redwood or Pine Juvenile Board 46 inches.
Plans  from ..
Hi Sibley : Better Ways to Build Surfboards
Popular ScienceMagazine
August 1935 Vol 127 No,2  page 91
1937 Tom Blake Hollow Paddle Board.  ('Australian Racing 16', 'Cigar Box', 'Kook Box' 'Toothpick')
Plans  from ...
Tom Blake : Riding the Breakers on this Hollow Hawaiian Surfboard
Popular Mechanics Magazine
July 1937 Volume 68 Number 1 pages 114 - 115
Reprinted in : How to Build Your Own Canoe, Kayak or Surfboard,  Number 30
Poplular Mechanics Press, 200 E. Ontario Street Chicago 11 Illinois.
Copyright 1940, Second printing 1946.
1938. Solid wood Alaia.   ('Church Window', 'Gothic')
Plans  from ...
The Surf Life Saving Association of Australia : The Australian Surf Life Saving Handbook
Tenth Edition (Revised 1938)
JNO, Evans and Son Printing Coy., 486-488 Kent Street Sydney, New South Wales 1938.
Illustration Page 182.
1947 Ralph R. Wright: The Competitive Swimming of Hawaii up to 1916.
Extracts from Masters of Arts Thesis, University of Hawaii, November 1947.
1953 Styrofoam Surfboard.
Plans  from ...
Bill Reid : Fun on a Plastic Surfboard
in Popular Mechanics Magazine July 1953 Volume 100 Number 1  page 159 .
1953 Solarbo Balsa Boards. - English solid wood prone boards
Advertisment from ...
Funnell, Ronald S : The Art of Surf-Riding on the Cornish Coast,
A. Wheaton and Co. Ltd 1953 page 30
1954 Fibreglassed  Balsawood Surfboard.
.Plans  from ...
Edna Wood/Matt Kivlin : Surfboards
in Mechanix Illustrated Magazine
September  Volume 50 Number 9   pages 173 - 173 
1956 The International Surf Carnivals, Australia.
Extracts from the Sydney Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, The Sun and The Age.
1958 Arthur Lowe: Surfing Pioneer
Extracts from
Lowe, A. M..: Surfing, Surf-Shooting and Surf-Lifesaving Pioneering
Printed and published at 36 Augusta Road, Manly, 1958.
1959 Fibreglassed Malibu.  ('Pig')
Plans  from ...
Edmundson, Joseph :The Hand Book Of Swimming And Water Sports
Arthur Baker Limited 20 New Bond Street London W1 1965. Figure 53, Page 169 
1959 Surf Test  : Locally Designed Board the Best !
by Ross Renwick
Australian OUTDOORS, November 1959.
Pages 30- 31 and 74-75.
1960 Duke Kahanamoku's Visit to Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club, 1915.
Uncredited : Famous Visit to Cronulla, circa 1960
Copied from a framed article and photograph displayed at Cronulla Surf Design Surf Shop, Cronulla NSW. 
1962 Deewhy Surfboard & Surfski history.
Extract from ...
Thomas, E.J.: The Drowning Don't Die
- Fifty Years of Vigilance and Service by the Deewhy Surf Life-Saving Club 1912-1962
Published by the DeewhySurf Life Saving Club. Printed by the Manly Daily Pty Ltd. pages 29 -31
1963 The Victorian Surfer Volume 1 Number 3.
Extracts .
1964 Phil Edwards : Contests - What is Good?
Surfer Magazine, February - March 1964 pages 30 to 31
1964 Greg McDonagh : "How Surboards are Made", 1964.
Ten steps by Brooknale manufacturer, Greg McDonagh,  with illustrative photographs.
From...  Pollard  Chapter Seven, pages 55 to 60
1965 Phil Edwards' Hobie Noserider.
Plans from ...
Edwards, Phil with Ottum, Bob : You Should Have Been Here An Hour Ago
 Harper and Rowe 49 East  33rd Street New York, NY 10016. 1967.
Chapter 11 : The Great Nose-Rider Caper
1967 Bob McTavish : Bob McTavish is in this wave. He probably had a plan to get out of it.
Bob McTavish's Malibu Repertoire circa 1966...
Surfing World Magazine January 1967 pages ?
1967  Bob McTavish : The Wild and Wonderful Days of Noosa , Part Two : National.
Surfing World Magazine March 1967 pages 18 to 25
1967  Bob McTavish : Bob McTavish on a bit of what's going on.
Surfing World Magazine August - September 1967 pages 33 to 37
1967 Bob McTavish : "WRITING in the sun is a cinch..."
SURF INTERNATIONAL Magazine
Vol. 1. No. 1  October - November 1967  Page 9.
High performance - Surfing as Art - Man made reefs.
1967- 8 Bob McTavish : "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND CHILDREN OF THE SUN.."
SURF INTERNATIONAL Magazine
Vol. 1. No. 2  December1967  - January 1968  Page 9.
Ground breaking analysis of surfing performance that rejects the accepted approach (Detailed in Bob McTavish is in this wave. He probably had a plan to get out of it. See above): and  establishes the dictum "BREAK OUT FROM THE STRAIGHT LINE.".. In design this is achieved by: "Elimination of two feet of board." 
1968 Bob McTavish : "A plastic drinking straw...."
SURF INTERNATIONAL Magazine
Vol. 1. No. 3  February - March 1968  Page 11.
Bob McTavish's account of the Honolua Bay sessions, featured in Paul Witig's Hot Generation and Eric Blum's The Fantastic Plastic Machine.
1968 Micki Dora : Authorative Small Wave Selctions.
This commentary by Micki Dora is edited from an article
Authorative Big and Small Wave Selctions
published in Surfing Magazine, early 1968, Pages 19 to 25.
The images are from alternative sources.
1970 Bob McTavish : Alexandra Headlands in '53.
SURF INTERNATIONAL Magazine
Vol. 2. No. 6  January 1970?  Pages 40 to 43.
Bob McTavish's recollections of the early days in Noosa region, with a forward  jump to surfing the Barrier Reef.
1970 Bob McTavish : Streaks and Slugs.
Surfer Tips : Number Forty Five
Surfer Magazine Volume 11 Number 2 May 1970, pages 27 and 29.
1970-1971
Design Issue : Surfing World  Magazine Volume 14 Number 4, circa August 1970?
This issue has a number of design specific articles on surfboard design and/or manufacturing.
In order of merit
Bob Cooper : Magic.
Subjectivity of surfboard design, with particular reference to Phil Edwards' 'Baby'
Surfing World  Magazine Volume 14 Number 4, circa August 1970 ???. Pages 14 to 17.

Kevin Platt : Basics of Form and Design Part 2.
Surfing World Magazine  Volume 14 Number 4. Pages 76-77.Circa 1970.

Steve Core : Surfboards Today.
An informative article focusing on current surfboard construction techniques with some comparison with
previous methods.
Surfing World Magazine  Volume 14 Number 4 Pages 69 - 70

Peter Drouyn : Drouyn (on design).
An article of dubious accuracy and an unclear focus.
Surfing World Magazine  Volume 14 Number 4. Pages 8, 11 and 12.

1971 Surfboard Design.
Uncredited
Modern World Magazine, July 1971, pages 30 - 36.
1972 Bob McTavish : Pods for Primates - a personal history of surfboard design Part 1.
Tracks Magazine March 1973
Reprinted circa 1973 in The Best of Tracks 
1972 Bob McTavish : Pods for Primates   - a personal history of surfboard design Part 2.
TracksMagazine  April? 1973
Reprinted circa 1973 in The Best of Tracks
1972 Bob Evans : Remember the time when?
Retrospective covering the period from the introduction of the malibu board 1956 to 1966
Surfing WorldMagazine Volume 16 Number 4, circa June 1972. Pages 30 to 35
1972 Bobby Mills : The Good Old Days.
Retrospective covering the period from the introduction of the malibu board 1956 to 1966
Surfing World Magazine Volume 16 Number 4, circa June 1972. Pages 36 and  78
Second part of the above article
1972 Snow McAlister : Sprint Walker, Solid Wood Boards and Victorian Surfing.
Tracks Magazine circa 1972
Reprinted circa 1973 in The Best of Tracks, page 191
1973 Duncan and Malcom Cambell's Bonzer.
Plans  from ...
Jim Neece : The Bonzer
Surfer Magazine Vol  14 # 3 September 1973 page 64 
1974 Stinger by Ben Apia.
Plans  from ...
Rick Neilson : Ben Apia's Tiny Bubbles,
Tracks Magazine November 1974 # 50, page 45. 
1976 TF.'s INSIDE SUNSET FANGER 1.
Ski Tail Design byTerry Fitzgerald - Rodney Ball.
TRACKS Magazine, January 1976  Number 64 Page 33.
1976 Nat's Backhand Board.
Nat's squaretail, as seen 'riding those lefts at the beginning of "Morning of the Earth"'
TRACKS Magazine, January 1976  Number 64 Page 33.
1976 TinklerTail.
TinklerTail Advertisment
Surfer Magazine Vol 17 # 2 June/July 1976 page 142
1976 Bob McTavish : Classic (Shortboard) Design.
Bob McTavish on current design features, circa  1976.
Backdoor   No. 12  December 1976, page 40.
1977 Bob McTavish : 'Bout a Spoonful.
Bob McTavish's eight easy steps to (Greenough) Spoon building.
Surfing World Magazine  Volume 24 Number 4 January-February ?  1977,  pages   64 - 65.
1977 John Ware : Fluted Diamond Tail Kneeboard.
Surfing World  magazine Vol 25 # 3 July 1977 pages ?
1977 Bob McTavish : It's much more fun than it looks...and it looks like fun.
Bob McTavish on reprising the longboard/Malibu design for the late 1970's...
Surfer Magazine Vol 18 # 4 November 1977 pages 102 - 103.
1978 Bob McTavish : Ace in the Hole - The Asymmetric Story.
Bob McTavish  ..
Seanotes Magazine August/September 1978  pages 38  - 39.
1978 Mark Richards : Get the Real Thing - A Personal Twin Fin Design History.
Surfer Volume 19 Number 4, November 1978. Page 65.
1979 Charles Uptin : Surfboards, Surf Skis and the Port Macquarie SLSC.
 extracts from 50 Years of Surf Life-Saving in Port Macquarie 1928/29 - 1978/79
 Port Macquarie Printers Pty. Ltd., 65 Clarence Street, Port Macquarie, 1979.
1980 Bob Cooper : Colour.
A brief history, design options and comments on the psychological impact of surfboard decor.
Surfing World Magazine Volume 29 Number 2, circa March 1980?. Pages 28 to 49.
1980 Bob McTavish : A Decade of Design.
Tracks Magazine January 1980 
1981 Nick Carroll : Three Fins ? ? Simon Says ... Thrussttt !
Tracks Magazine, February 1981  Number 125  Page 7.
1981 Dougal Walker :The Tri-Fin - Did God Mean It To Be?
The rapid application of Simon Anderson's Thruster design by other top riders and shapers.
Tracks Magazine May 1981, Number 128,  Page 16.
1981 Terry Fiztgerald : Drifta III.
Tracks Magazine May 1981, Number 128,  Page 17.
1981 Simon Anderson Reflects on a Decade of Shaping Surfboards (Interview).
Simon Anderson's shaping history from Shane Surfboards to Foils, Twins ('71 and '76), Nose Nose and Thruster designs.
Surfing World Magazine Volume 30 Number 1, circa May 1981. Pages 16 to 31.
1981 Peter Townend : Two, Two, Two Boards in One  (Bi-fin).
SURFING Magazine, June 1981  Volume 17 Number 6  Page 27.
1989 Nick Carroll : Australian Shapers : A Family Tree.
Adapted from ...
Surfing MagazineVol 25 No. 2 February 1989, page 106.
Note that the original article stated that the diagram was incomplete.
1989 George Obelian : Give It  the Axe- Early Development of the Modern Gun
Ancients - Hot Curls - Simmons - Dowing., from...
Surfer Magazine Vol 30 No. 10  1989, page 104 - 105
1989 Dick Brewer : Lust in the Dust - An Era of Big-Wave Equipment Evolution
Dick Brewer's big wave design history...
Surfer Magazine Vol 30 No. 10  1989, page 105.
2001 Pauline Curby : The Myth of William Gocher
Extract from ... Seven Miles from Sydney - A History of Manly
Manly Council, 1 Belgrave Street, Manly, NSW 2095.
Printed by Headland Press, Brookvale, Sydney.
2005 Debora Smith (Science Editor) : Earth's first beachcombers ended up in Australia.
Sydney Morning Herald : Weekend Edition, May 14-15 2005
News : Page 13.
Reporting research developments published in Science, 13 May 2005.
2005  Judy Adamson  : The FCS - H2 Surfboard fin
Sydney Morning Herald : , August 6-7, 2005.
SPECTRUM : Page 33.
Design : Moments away from inspiration
Reporting on three Australian Design Developments
-The Dophin torch -  The pedestrian button - The surfboard fin.
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