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Junior Surfers, Manly 1958.
Centre/Jacket : Sugar Ray Robinson. Right/Checked Shirt : Midget Farrelly
Early printing : Surfboard Designs in Modern World magazine
July 1971 pages 30 - 37. Editor: Dick Levine
Reprinted in Nat History, 1983, page 89. Photograph : Snowy McAlister

1958 First balsa shipment late 1957. Malibus 9’6 ” - 10’      Pigs plus 8ft               Guns  plus11 ft 6”  balsa/fibreglass based on US designs with glass & wood fins.First all glass fins  ANMM # 00009214 and # 00006710 Surfworld # 39 Jackson/Scott Dillon/ 1958 Bodyboard timber and fibreglass adaptation of paipo with more flotation. Miminal scoop, often twin fin. D: 4 ft 6” x 22”  In Victoria these boards were sometimes called a  Lamaroo.  Surfworld  #26 and #42 Image Right : Surfboard template roadside signage : Surf Board Rally  Long Reef Winter 1958 Cropped from original photograph by Snowy McAlister Reprinted in Nat History, 1983, page 89.

Image Right : Robert Conneely and his first board built by Gordon Woods, Bondi, 1958. Conneely Archive  Reprinted in Jimmy O'Keefe : A Life in the Sun... The Robert Conneely Story The Australian Surfer's Journal,  Volume 3 Number One , Summer 2000. Pages 28. 1956-7-8? Duke Kahanamoku Another visit to Australia, documented in a newsreel item 'Duke Kahanamoku : the man Who Gave Us the Surfboard', (Cinesound Review 1410, 1958). 1959  Greg McDonagh, Scott Dillon  experiment with coolite foam & epoxy resins Bob McTavish Pods for Primates Part 1 Tracks1972. 1959 Crane Industries (Plumbing supply company):, molded epoxy shell joined by black seam tape .9ft6” with moulded fin box -no fin. white deck-green hull, pointed nose  round tail 1959 Roger Keiran  first shaping machine (balsa),spray gloss & fin boxes Bob McTavish Pods for Primates Part 1 Tracks1972.

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Malibus and Pigs, Bondi 1958.
Source : Unknown, probably newspaper cutting.
Second left : Possibly Bluey Mayes.

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1961 Harris, Reg. S.The History of Manly Life Saving Club 1911-1961
Published by Manly Life Saving Club, NSW Printed by Publicity Press Ltd.

1966 Finney, Ben and Houston, James D. : Surfing – A History of the Ancient Hawaiian Sport
Pomegranate Books P.O. Box 6099 Rohnert Park, CA 94927  Reprint 1996

1968 Kahanamoku, Duke With Brennan, Joe:  Duke Kahanamoku’s World of Surfing
Angus and Robertson Publishers Sydney , Australia 1972 2nd Edition  A&R Paperbacks, Sydney , Australia

1970 Margan, Frank and Finney, Ben R. :  A Pictorial History of Surfing
Paul Hamlyn Pty Ltd, 176 South Creek Road, Dee Why West, NSW 2099.

1964 Pollard, Jack (ed.):  The Australian Surfrider
K.G.Murray Publishing Co.P/L,142 Clarence Street , Sydney Australia

1972 The Best of Tracks   (Vol. I) Editors : Falzon, Albert; Stewart, John; Grissim, John. :
Tracks Publishing Co Pty Ltd. P.O. Box 178 Avalon, NSW.
'Bob McTavish’s Personal History of Surfboard Design – Pods for Primates Parts 1' (pages 120 – 122).

1992 Stell, Marion K. :  Pam Burridge
Collins Angus & Robertson Publishers (Australia) Pty. Limited
A division of Harper Collins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Limited
25 Ryde Road, Pymble NSW 2073, Australia

1997 Warshaw, Matt : Surfriders – In Search of the Perfect Wave
Tehabi Books, Inc. Collins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022

1978 Warwick, Wayne A Guide to Surfriding in New Zealand Second Edition
Viking Sevenseas Ltd Wellington, New Zealand

1979 Young, Nat ; Photographs by McCausland, Bill: Nat Young’s Book of Surfing
A.H. & A.W. Reed Pty. Ltd. 53 Myroora Rd, Terry Hills, Sydney.

1983 Young, Nat with McGregor, Craig : The History 0f Surfing
Palm Beach Press,40 Palm Beach Road, Palm Beach NSW 2108

1972  Surfing World. Volume 16 #4.  Bob Evans : 'remember the time when...' pages  30 to 35.

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