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offset
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Olo
pre 1900 solid native wood Hawaiian traditional longboard 12-18 ft, used exclusively by royalty, probably used in large swells.

Okinuee
generally the name of the hollow timber boards made by Gordon Woods, Bill Wallace and Barry Bennett and others in 1956-1958 in an attempt to reproduce the balsa and fibreglass boards brought to Australia by the visiting American / Hawaiian teams.
Sometimes refers to said balsa boards.
onion fracture
circular cracks in the fibreglass, usually on the rear deck, probably from the rider’s heels.
onion repair
method of repairing deep dings by laminating increasingly larger fibreglass patches into the hole, often resulting in a circular pattern after sanding.
outline/template/plane shape
see template.
outside rail
the edge of a board furthest away from the wave face, compare inside rail.

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