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manufacturers : gordon & smith surfboards

Southside company, started by Floyd Smith of Gordon and Smith Surfboards USA, circa 1965.
Maintained a high profile and a high quality stable of shapers until about 1983.

Gordon and Smith Surfboards
Caringbah NSW

1965 Floyd Smith The Stretch, Bobby Brown Model;

1970 - 1972 Wayne Williams
Contributed, with thanks, by Buffy Williams-Robinson, 12 January 2005.
See Wilderness Surfboards

1972 circa, Bob Hansen

1974 Robert Conneely, Peter Townend, Alan Blythe, Brad Mayes and Steve Griffiths. See below.

1976 Alan Blythe, Terry Bishop, Steve Griffiths and Peter Glasson;

1977 PT, Steve Griffiths, Jim Banks and Brad Mayes;
Moon Beam designs by Bob Liddle (decal below).

1979 Gary Hughes, Richard Herbert, Terry Bishop, Geoff Solness, John Webber, Greg Webber and John Waterworth;

1983
G&S Express Kneeboard
Paul Amstrong.

1997 made under liscence by Jackson Surfboards, Bob Brown Surfboards and others.

Gordon and Smith Surfboards(USA):
1967 Midget Farrelly V Bottom Model,
1969-70 Midget Farrelly Stringerless and W.C.D. (World Championship Model?)

Catalogue Entries

1965 Gordon and Smith, Noserider9 ft 7"

1966 Farrelly Stringerless Model for Gordon and Smith Surfboards, USA. 9ft 6''
Image contributed by Brandon McKenney, October 2005.

1967 Gordon & Smith Bobby Brown 9 ft 3''

1967 Gordon and Smith, Vee Bottom 7'7''

1967 G and S - USA, Midget Farrelly Vee Bottom 7ft 6''.

1973 Gordon and Smith, Square tail 6 ft 5" #53 not to scale

1976 Gordon and Smith, Peter Townend 7 ft

1978 Bronzed Aussies/Cheyne Horan, 5ft 10"

1981 Gordon and Smith, Lazor Zap 6 ft

Notes
1. 1967 G and S - USA, Midget Farrelly Vee Bottom 7ft 6''
Photograph from Paul Gross :Waves of Change : Surfboards of the Transition Era in Longboard Quaterly Aug/Dec 1994 page 68. Dimensions given as Length : 7 ft, Width : 23'', Nose : 18.5'' Tail : 17.5''. Analysis of the template to scale indicates the length must be incorrect.

2.1978 Bronzed Aussies/Cheyne Horan, 5ft 10"
Manufactured by Gordon and Smith Surfboards Captain Cook Drive Caringbah NSW

Advertisement 1974 : Shapers Stable

from Tracks magazine, No. 50 November 1974 page12.

Decals and Other

	*Gordon and Smith Surfboards* *Shaped by Bobby Brown*
*Custom Shaped by Bobby Brown* Detail	Photographs at Surf's Up At Gerringong Board Display, Auguist 2005. Thanks to Scott Andrews

Fully committed bottom turn,
Sandown Point circa 1967
Bobby Brown/Gordon and Smith Stringerless
Photograph : Jack Eden.