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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

"An advertisement for the Ferris Factory in Caringbah, Sydney announced that one could ‘look like a rider’ in Ferris Bermuda Shorts; ‘feel like a rider’ in a Ferris Rubber Suit and ‘be a rider’ on a new 1962 Ferris Surfboard: Balsa or Poly."

- Paul Scott: Australian Surfing Magazines: The First Wave (1961-1962)
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Force 9 Surfboards circa 1978 Taren Point Road Carringbah. Wayne Roach. Robert Linddell.  Brian McKay 1984 Gary Green Model, shaped by Wayne Roach. Decal images contributed by Dave Jones, January 2010.

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 -

Free Flight Surfboards Ballina NSW circa 1974 Decal top, contributed by Tony, Hawkesnest, NSW, December 2008. 1978  Phil Myers, Col Smith (Newcastle) Channel Design. See #64.

Free Fluid Surfboards 1973 Caloundra, Queensland Reid Brothers: Stephen Reid 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.

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."
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John Haymes reported (edited) in March 2011, with thanks:
"My name is John not David.
Freeform Surfboards began in 1970 and lasted for 2 years when I decided to return to Avalon and the back yard.
It started out as a partnership with Rodney "Gopher" Sumpter and myself.
A year later Rod returned to Cornwall, England where he still resides today.
After returning to Avalon the business thrived on a local market.
However I did get quite a lot of orders from Sydney's Western Suburbs, in particular Pymble and an agent who was a boarder at Knox Grammar.
For every 10 boards he sold he got a new board - I owed him 3 boards at one stage.
Timmy Rogers (later to start Swift Sticks) came to work with me for a couple of years, one of my sponsored surfers was the late Kim "Fly" Bradley.
A few years later I got a real job for a while, the call of the surfboard got to me and I decided to start again under the name of Toy Gun Surfboards.
This time I had a new partner Paul Holmes (editor of Tracks and Surfer magazines and biographer for Dale "Hawk" Velzy).
Paul and I continued for a few more years, then Greg Clough came to shape with me.
I remember Greg turning up early one morning to shape and also tell me he was about to embark in his own business.
I asked him what he was going to call it, the reply 'Aloha Surfboards'.
I wished him luck and advised him that I did not think the name would work.
God, I got that wrong."

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 31 Lefroy Street 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." Decal image contributed by Rob Bourke, September 2010, with thanks.

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.

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