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Faith Surfboards
circa 1971 - 1973
Coolangatta, Queensland.
Gordon Merchant
Under liscence from Faith Surfboards, South Africa.

Farrelly Surfboards
circa1965
Palm Beach Sydney
1969 March/April?
Surfing World Vol 11 No 4 Page 38
Ad : Palm Beach Post Office NSW 2108 - Pintail, also Tracker models.
circa1969
Harbord Road Brookvale Sydney
Warren Cornish
1972
Mona Vale, Sydney
1977
West Street Brookvale Sydney

Flinders Surf Co. (Surfboards)
Flinders IslandVic.
1977 John Wilson

Fluid Foils
Jim Pollard's Design label for Shane Surfboards, circa 1978 Brookvale?

Force 9 Surfboards
circa 1978
Taren Point Road Carringbah.
Robert Linddell

Frank Adler
Qld

Fred Pyke Surfboards (see Pyke Surfboards)
1961
Reynard Street Coburg (Backyard)
First board : Bulldog Board
circa 1963
Custom Built Surfboards 578 Sydney Road Brunswick 386571
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Free Flight Surfboards
Ballina NSW
circa 1974

Decal top, contributed by Tony, Hawkesnest, NSW, December 2008.

1978
Phil Myers, Col Smith (Newcastle) Channel Design.

Free Fluid Surfboards
1973
By Reid Brothers, Queensland
Ron Howard.

Image right contributed with thanks by Eric Bayliss, September 2007.

Free Spirit Surfboards
1977
?
Image contributed with thanks by Sam Shepherd, September 2008.

Freeform Surfboards
circa 1973
Rob Saunders reports December 2003, with thanks,...
Freeform surfboards – Made by David Haymes (at least I think his first name was David) at Avalon in the early seventies. His business did not last and I bought his decals and other board manufacturing equipment.
See Reef Surfboards

Free Glide Surfboards
Tuggerah, Central Coast, NSW.
1979
John Harris
Peter Lawrence

Image right contributed with thanks by Eric Bayliss, July 2008.

Fresh Juice Surfboards
circa 1972
North Hobart, Tasmania
Sandy Shaw contributed, May 2006...
Fresh Juice Surfboards ... I am a 52 year old surfing around Swansea, Tasmania for the last 30 years.
I bought a 7’2” diamond tail 'narra gutted' (?) board from the the manufacturer at North Hobart in 1972, which I later used on a trip around Australia. Decal was an orange slice.

Friar Tuck Surf Designs
Kneeboards/Surfboards
Brookvale NSW
1977
John Ware and Nick Daly
1979
Peter and John Ware and Craig McDonald ;
1982
David Parkes, Dale Ponsford

Image above: Friar Tuck "The Original 4 Fin"
Decal Image Left : Sydney Surf Auction,
Mona Vale Hotel, Sydney, 30 October 2005
Catalogue No. 4
Thanks to Mick Mock.

Fudge Surfboards
?
1967

Image contributed by Eric Bayliss, September 2008.