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johanna 1970
"And these
visions of Johanna, kept me up past the dawn." - Bob Dylan, 1968.
1969 White
Kite by Ted Spencer (Shane).6 ft x 19" with 8" diamondtail.50/50
rails at nose,soft in centre and hard at the tail.S deck.glueline stringer.
M.Shane Steadman/Terry Fitzgerald
? in Modern World,1971
1969 Speed Roundtail : 7 ft X 19" refinement
by Midget Farrelly. Foiled template hard rails in tail and glueline/stringer.
Impeccable finish.
M. Farrelly ads in
Surfing World
, Vol x #x and #x,1969
1969 North Coast Speed
:Bob McTavish/Garry Keyes/Chris Brock (Wilderness Surfboards) Sub 7 ft
X 19" Tracker refinement, stringers, tail patches.Greenough fin
M. Photographic essay in Surfing
World, Vol x #x
1969 Egg/Super
Stubby- by Nat Young (Keyo) and Wayne Lynch (John Arnold)
5 ft 8" -6 ft 6" double ender with soft rails and large fin, S deck, tailpatches
F. Sea of Joy
1969 Side Slipper
-DownRailer : developed by Midget Farrelly, featured soft down rails from
nose to tail, flat bottom,super kicked roundednose and finbox with small
fin. 7 ft 6" X 20 1/2"with a 4" pod.
F. Sea of Joy - hyper knicked
nose model ridden, but not using sideslipping technique, by Reno Abellira
at Johanna and Angourie.
F. Pacific Vibrations
- various riders use side slipping technique throughout the film, the most
outstanding being Merv Larsen, riding a finless surfski with seatbelt.
1969 Hull 6 ft x 20"
wide tailed single fin with faired chine rail panels from nose to mid point,
derived from Greenough’s Spoon design. Boards by Chris Brock/Garry Keyes
at Wilderness Surfboards, Ted Spencer at Shane Surfboards and Robert Coneely
at Hayden Surfboards.
1969 Slab
Kneeboard first design probably by Peter Crawford at Wallace Surfboards
as a high flotation alternative to Greenough’s Spoon. Named by Midget Farrelly.
Approximately 5 ft x 22" with Waveset finbox, this design has current application
and has had a full range of fin setups.
1970 Coolite
- a coarse bubble foam moulded juvinile/beginner board, usually ridden
prone, 4 ft 10" X 19"
Rob (Conneely)
on one of the few George Greenough shaped stand-up boards. Angourie, 1970.
Photograph by John
Witzig
Image and caption...
The Australian
Surfer's Journal, Volume 3 Number One , Summer 2000. Page 33.
First printed in
Tracks
magazine,circa 1971, reprinted in Nat-History,
page 107.
1970
Bob
McTavish : Streaks and Slugs
Surfer Tips
: Number Forty Five
Surfer Magazine
Volume 11 Number 2 May 1970, pages 27 and 29.
Surfing World Volume 15 Number 1 (circa 1970)
Terry Fitzgerald and Col Smith photographs
at Kirra riding very short Twin fins.
SURFER Magazine September 1970
Volume 11, Number 4:
After The World Contest:
We're Tops Now? by John Witzig
The Little Boards by Drew Kampion
After The World Contest by Nat
Young
Death of all "Contests" by Drew
Kampion
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REFERENCES FOR THIS SECTION
BOOKS
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
FILM
1985 A History of Australian
Surfing Nat Young.
MAGAZINES
1971 Modern World
July Shane Steadman/Terry Fiztgerald (possibly) : 'Surfboard
Design' pages 30 to 36.
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