plans
and specifications :terry fitzgerald skitail, 1976
T.F.'S
INSIDE SUNSET FANGER 1, 1976.
T.F.'S INSIDE SUNSET FANGER 1 Terry Fitzgerald returned to Australia
briefly to spend Christmas with his wife and kids, also to develop his
most recent innovation in surfboard design. In collaboration with Rodney Ball,a
surfer/designer from Manly, Fitz designed a smaller version before he went
to Hawaii to compete in the Smirnoff and the Pipeline Masters. The board works well. Says Terry "Instead of drawing an
arc along tile bottom when you turn it just slides, then catches and takes
off straight up the face, wooooo!!! This is my gun for inside Sunset".
TRACKS Magazine, January 1976 Number 64 Page 33.
Photograph by Frank Pithers.
NOTES 1. The brief article is devoid
of any technical information, similar to Nat
Young Backhand, 1976 2. The design is most commonly
known as a Ski Tail, and had some application by kneeboard designers.
3. Note legrope plug for a Sunset
board, circa 1976.
4. Colour example below, second
board from the left.
5. The text was set in a graphic
of the tail template - see below.
6. For Rod ball Ski tail, see #227.
