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Oannes Surfboards
??
1978
Oannes was the first known merman.
In Mesopotamian mythology he was an amphibious being who taught mankind wisdom.
He was purported to have the form of a fish but with the head of a man under his fish’s head and under his fish’s tail the feet of a man.

Oasis Surfboards
1977
?

Decal forwarded by Jannie, October 2014.

Ocean Surfboards
3 Bristol Road, Torquay
1973
?

1978

Decals courtesy of Snazzy:
1974 January, 2019 and 1978 May 2020.

1973

1976

1974

Ocean Beach Surfboards
Woy Woy, NSW
1974
Colin Waldo Ward

Colin Ward changed the name from Ocean Beach Surfboards to Rainbow Surfboards in the mid-1970s.
He later worked for McCoy Surfboards at Avoca and then at Nirvana Surfboards, glassing for both labels.
- entry thanks to Ozzie Surfer, Central Coast NSW Surf Museum and Historical Society, January 2020.

Ocean Blend Surfboards
?
1976

Ocean Born Surfboards
Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
1978
Neil Schultz

Some connection with Fluid Foils?

Ocean Boulevard Surfboards

Ocean Boulevard Surf Shop, Surfers Paradise, Queensland.
1978
Steve Goddard.

Ocean Delite Surfboards
PO Box 105, Nambucca Heads NSW
1976
Alan Smith
Decal images supplied by Joe, Nambucca Heads, June 2008.
In February 2022, Dave Day noted a mate's Ocean Delite flyer rounded-pin Thruster.
Shaped by Paul Joske (see Valla Surfboards) and glassed by Mark (Hunza) Haines in 1984 while Alan Smith was in Japan (Gary Mills Collection).

Also see Tangent Dreams Surfboards.

Oceanetics Surfboards
?
1990
Mick Wilson

Ocean Foil Surfboards
45 Watts Road, Hastings, Victoria 3915
Phone: (059) 791-531.
731 Nepean Highway, Rosebud, Victoria.
Phone: 87 1383
This entry updated thanks to Kurt Lane, April 2012.
1974
Keith Robinson
1976
Chris Cornell
In the late 1980s Keith Robinson relocated Ocean Foil Surfboards to Scotts Head, NSW, see below.

1976

1977

1984

Decals thanks to Snazzy, December 2019, 2020.

1974

1975

1976

Ocean Foil Surfboards
1074 Scotts Head Road, Scotts Head NSW.
Phone: (065) 69-8100
1988
Keith (Sir Reg) Robinson
In 2020, Dave Day (Nambucca District Historical Society President) forwarded a press cutting confirming that Ocean Foil Surfboards relocated from Victoria to the mid-NSW coast in the late 1980s; see Ocean Foil Surfboards above.

"Sir Reg" (Keith Robinson) - 30 Years manufacturing experience.
Surfer: Justin Walsh

Ocean Form Design Surfboards
Noosa Heads Qld
1977
Mark Pinnington, Kim Bailey and Greg Clough

Ocean Forms (Kneeboards)
Gold Coast, Australia.
1978
Don Cook

1983

1978

1984

Oceania Surfboards
Currumbin, Gold Coast,
Queensland.
1989

Decals courtesy of Snazzy, February 2019.

Oceanic Surfboards
?
1964?
Decal courtesy of snazzy, January 2017.

Ocean Image Surfboards
?
1989
?

Ocean Lane Surfboards
?
1975

Ocean Magic Surfboards
?
1976

Ocean Pacific Surfboards
? Australia
1979
Probably made under license from the USA.

Decal forwarded by Nambi8, April 2014.

Ocean Road Surfboards
Lorne Surf Shop
96 Mountjoy (?) Parade, Lorne, Victoria. 3232
Ph. 052 89 1673
1975
Wayne Lynch and #383
1976
Willy Muncey, Peter Asley and visiting Hawaiians.
Hawaiians include Denis Pang.
1979
Gavin

Decal image supplied, with thanks, by Macca, August 2011.

Decals thanks to Snazzy, December 2019.

Oceans Surfboards
1974
?
Mark Moore

Ocean Shapes Surfboards
1984
Newcastle
Dave Reeves
(ex Tradewinds Surfboards)

Oceanside Surfboards
?
circa 1970?

Ocean Spirit Surfboards
1974
??
Bob Minti

Ocean Surf Craft
1978
Maroochydore
???

Decal image supplied with thanks by Joe T., June 2012.

Ocean Tuned Surfboards
West Coast, Victoria.
circa 1978
"Hootz"

Decal image circa 1976, top, contributed with thanks by Snazzy, December 2010.

Decal image circa 1978, below, supplied by Neville Josephs, May 2009.

Octopuss Surfboards
?
1978
Decal forwarded by JoJo, September 2014.

Odin Surfboards
Ballina NSW
1970
Manager: Rick Purnell
Shaper: Peter Dutton (Queensland)
Glasser: Barry Pussell was from (Maroubra)

Details forwarded by Brian Cronshaw, December 2017, who recalled:
From memory Peter was the driving force behind the Odin name and graphics.

Odyssey Surfboards
Cnr. Loftus and Newcastle Streets, West Perth WA
1973
Nev Hyman;
1977
Phil Usher

Bruce Smith

Off The Wall Surfboards
Sydney ?
1978
Greg Webb

Offshore Surfboards
Phillip Island, Victoria.
1977
Paul King and Stewart Maxwell
Richard Evans

Phillip Island decal forwarded by Nambi8, April 2014.
Phillip Island-Wonthaggi and Stewart Maxwell decals courtesy of Snazzy, January 2019.

Ogg Surfboards
1975
???

Oke Surfboards
1968
223 Station Street, Edithvale, Melbourne, Victoria..
Proprietor : Alan Oke
1973
Alan Oke passed away, company taken over by brothers Neil and Bruce.
1974
R Evans.
1976
Neil Oke and Peter Laing
circa 1985
Mordialloc, Victoria.
1986
Noted: Oke kneeboard with Islantis decal
1999
Peter White

Murray Walding emailed, December 2005...
Oke Surfboards.
Operated by Alan Oke in Edithvale in suburban Melbourne from 1968 until his death in 1973 when the operation was taken over by his brothers Neil and Bruce (I went to school with Alan).
Relocated in the eighties to Mordialloc.
The above entry has been adjusted, thanks to Murray.

Noted: 5ft 6" stringer-less super-stubby #209, with Waveset-Safeset finbox, 1969-1970.

Okinui Club Surfboards
circa 1957
Queensland
Roger "The Duck" Keiran
Glasser: Dick Laycock
Noted board: Roger Keiran Malibu, circa 1960.
9ft 3'' x 21 1/2'' x 3'' with wedge finbox and hand painted 'Okinui Club' and 'KEIRAN' (the 'N' has ben removed) decor.

Wood fin 11'' x 4 1/4'' base x 8'' span
(height actually 13'' but allowance for fin box insertion).
See Fin Catalogue
Fin box, fibreglass 7'' x 2 1/2'' and 1 1/2'' deep.
Note that the fin base and finbox lengths are not consistent and the fin maybe a replacement.

Images courtesy of Mick Mock, Sydney Surf Auction 2010, Catalogue #103.

Bob McTavish: Pods for Primates Part 1,Tracks February 1972:
"Roger 'Duck' Keiran in Queensland had the first shaping machine, milling out balsa shapes.
And spray gun glosses.
Duck had many good ideas.
Removal fins even.
Small fins.
His timing was wrong that's all.
Ducky's glasser Dick Laycock came to McDonagh's when Ducky's 'Okinui Club' factory folded in
Queensland, and the foam era began."

Old???d Surfboards
19756
Queensland?
John Barnes

Decal image courtesy of TomTom2, April 2014.

Oliver Surfboards
1975
Queensland?

O'Neil Surfboards
1972
Australia?
Possibly made by John Arnold Surfboards, SA

Orqua Surfboards
Torquay
(orqua - Torquay without T and Y)
1976
Freddie Mac

W6'6"

Decal thanks to Snazzy, December 2019.

Osprey Surfboards
Marrawah, Tasmania.
1979
Kipp Nunn
Notes on a 1980s Osprey Kneeboard by Kipp Nunn, Marrawah, thanks to Dale, Scamander Beach Surf Shop June 2021:
Kipp Nunn started surfing in Ihe North West as a boy.
Later, his family moved to NSW and Victoria - but he came across to Tasmania for a holiday and never went back.
From the late 1970s to the early 1980s he set up a surfboard business in Marrawah in an old dairy shed in Old Comeback Street, and made about 100 boards.
The Osprey logo shows an Osprey over Marrawah beach with Mount Cameron in the background.

Osprey Surfboards
?
1983
Decal forwarded by Nambi8, April 2014.
1984
R. Homan

Outer Island Surfboards 1975 PO Box 710 Coffs Harbour Mitchell Rae Glen Richie Hand-drawn decal, left circa 1975, contributed by Georgie S., November 2012. 2005 V2 Flex	# 129
2009