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Safari Surfboards
Mermaid beach
Gold Coast
Qld
1963
Laurie Hohensee
Decal image contibuted by Mark Workum,
October 2005. |
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Safari Surfboards
Castalloy Plastics Pty. Ltd.
Adelaide, South Australia
1963 |
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Safari Surfboards
Durban, South Africa
1977
Decal image contibuted by Mark Wallace,
June 2009. |
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Sam Egan
Surfboards
Newcastle NSW:
1963
93 Fredrick Street Merewether
1977
Sam Egan and Alan Mitchell ;
1979
Ken McDonald, Col Smith (N) and Sam Egan
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Saltwater Surfboards
?:
1975
Geoff Wakefield ?
Image emailed by Steve, June 2008. |
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Sea Darts
Surfboards
Curl Curl NSW
1979
Nick Daly;
1981
and Tony McDonald ;
Sea Jewel Surfboards
Kempsey NSW
1977
Peter Cornish
Sea Mist Surfboards
Launceston Tas
1977
Darryl Richardson
1979
Peter Nitschke
Sea
Level Surfboards
1980
Brighton, Victoria.
Rod Stock and Stephen Taranato
The owner, Rod Stock, was a civil
engineer and thus a bit of a technocrat. He did a great deal of experimental/development
work with surfboard shapes. From the very early 70's to the present. Example
,he used to have a CAD CAM fin foiling machine in the mid 80's. We
spent a lot of time maintaining the rage against the "thruster". Twin fins,
wide based (keel) fin twinnies, four fins, twin fins with stabiliser fin,
single fins etc., various channel bottoms - Stephen Taranato
Sea Rider Surfboards
1977
Byron Bay
John Blanch
Decal image contributed by Joe Smith,
March 2009. |
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Sea Scape Surfboards
Location?
1983,
Designed and handcrafted by Phil Roxburgh.
Image contributed
by Jim Swinton, July 2006.
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Serious
Fun Surfboards
Coffs Harbor, NSW.
circa 1984
Ronnie Goddard
See Summer Cloud Surfboards
Shady Hollow Surfboards
Late 1970s
???
Shady Mountain
Surfboards
Cresent Head NSW
1977
John Lewis and Alan Blyth,
Shanti Surfboards
1972-3
Retailed from Shanti surfshop, 89
Pittwater Rd Manly.
Tim Duff, the owner, wanted to make
boards.
The one's he shaped (or glassed)
were shockers so he enlisted Bill Cillia
- who was shaping at Keyo
at around the same time.
Contributed by Rob Tebble, July 2005.
Shaping
Co. (Surfboards)
1980
Greg Webb
Shark Surfboards
South Australia
Brendan Rose, Mornington Peninsula,
Victoria reports February 2004...
pop-out
, originating from Sth. Aussie , bearing the name "Shark Surfboards" .
Also 9"6 , "D" fin.
Futher information requested.
Shark Island
Designs Surfboards
Cronulla
1978
Geoff Solness
Contributed by Rob Treage, July 2009. |
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Shaun Tomson Surfboards
Manly NSW:
1977
Darryl Holmes
Blue decal image provided by P. Chance,
August 2008. |
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Shear
Water Surfboards
1975
Victoria ???
J. Gair
Sheeley Surfboards
1980
Newcastle
Skipp Surfboards
24 Flinders Street Wollongong NSW
Phone 228
1963?
John Skipp;
1975
and Paul Nichol, Phil Byrne, Dave Byrne,
Terry Richardson, Terry Cooper and Chris Horne ;
1977
Kevin Parkinson, Paul Nicol and Richard
Palmer
1979
and Terry Richardson ;
1980
Ed Sinnott
Frank Latta
Skipp decal, right, courtesy
of Dave Hughes, May 2009. |
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Skipper Surfboards
Adelaide?
circa 1960 Plywood timber surf and paddleboards.
Example noted: 7ft 6'' pintail, square
rails, D fin.
Skipper decal, right, courtesy
of Dave Hughes, May 2009. |
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Sky Surfboards
Byron Bay NSW
1973
Michael Cundith
Decal image circa 1974 (top) contributed
by Peter, June 2008.
1977
Michael Cundith and Chris Brock ,
1978
and Bob McTavish
1979
and Greg Melhuish, Rodney Dahlberg, Rob
French and Gary Timperley ;
Bruno Buzzolan
1982
Neil Cormac |
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Slash
Stix Surfboards
?
1982
John Scollay
Sol
Surfboards
33 Tamar Street,
Ballina
1974
Solar
Power Surfboards
Botany NSW ?
circa 1980
Shaper: Mick Wilson
Something Incredible
Surfboards
20 Woodfield Boulevade
Carringbah
Phone : 525-3737
circa 1968.
Darrell Eastlake and John Rhodes.
Photograph : Sydney Surf Auction,
Mona Vale Hotel, Sydney, 30 October
2005.
Catalogue No. 89A.
Thanks to Mick Mock |
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South Coast Surfboards
Sandon Point Wollongong NSW
1972
Kevin Parkinson, Terry Richardson
1974
Theo Hoppel
1978.
Patrick (Owner)
Terry Cooper and Dan Osbourne |
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Southern
Comfort Surfboards
Taren Point NSW
1974
Bob Liddell
1977Bill York and Denny Childs
Darren Pracy
Southernman Surfboards
Ulladulla, NSW ?
circa 1975
Image courtesy of Darren Pratt, 2008. |
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Southern
Surf Surfboards
Port Elliot SA
1979
Wayne Dale
South Side Surf Shop
Graham King Surfboards
1964 |
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Spiral Ride
Surfboards
Pambula, NSW
1982
Michael Peterson
Tommy Peterson
Image contributed by George, May 2009. |
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Spiritfilled
Surfboards
South Australia
1976
Greg Frost
Spirit of the Sea (Surfboards)
Qld
Peter, ebay notes September 2008:
Spirit of the Sea was started by Ken
Gudenswager from Adlers and up until about 72 had Dick Van Straalen, Rick
Neilson, Keith Paull and Peter Townend shaping, after that no one is to
sure who was shaping there.
1970
Dick van Straalen
Photograph : Sydney Surf Auction,
Mona Vale Hotel, Sydney, 30 October
2005
Catalogue No. 105.
Thanks to Mick Mock
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Image courrtesy of Frank Cannon,
May 2008.
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Spot Surfboards
Warrilla NSW
1977
Brian Coombes
Image: Sydney Surf Auction, Harbord Digger's Club, 19th October 2008.
Catalogue #
Images courtesy of Mick Mock, many thanks. |
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Springer Surfboards
63 Ocean Road, Anglesea, Victoria.
(052) 632261
circa 1977
Springer decal image forwarded by Brian,
September 2008. |
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Strapper
Surfboards
132 Geelong Road, Torquay, Victoria.
Phone 052 612312
1978
Michael DiStassio
Stuart
Maxwell Surfboards
Cape Woolami Vic
1979
Stuart Maxwell
Summer Breeze Surfboards
?
1979 ?
Richard Evans
Decal image forwarded by Brian, September
2008. |
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Summercloud
Surfboards
Coffs Harbor NSW
1973
Ronnie Goddard (Goofy Foot)
1974
and Billy Tolhurst
Decal image right :
Summercloud Surfboards, Coffs Harbour,
circa 1975.
Image contributed by Simon Chipper, Phillip
Island
April 2006. |
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Details from pesonal interview, Scott
Dillon's Legends Surf Museum, Coffs Harbor, June 29th 2005.
Began surfing at Maroubra, NSW under
instruction from elder brother.
Aquatic influence fom sailing father.
First board 1960, custom made balsa
board from Southside backyarder - covered with orange pigment.
First foam board from Broovale 1962.
Green tint volan, 3/4 rewood stringer,
D fin, "block decal".
Manufacturer unknown.
Under tutelage of Maroubra's Wayne
Burton, Ronnie is 'sponsored' by Barry Bennett
Surfboards and in the mid-sixties becomes the Southside agent.
The commissions are invariably used
to purchase new boards.
In 1969 he travelled to Victoria and
intently examined the 1970 World contest.
He noted the dedicated professionalism
of the winner, Rolf Aurness, and the high quality of surfing by Midget
Farrelly.
Although Farrelly and Reno Abellira
from Hawaii were riding Side-Slipper
designs, they did not employ side- slipping techniques.
These were not recognised as valid
manourves by the judges.
Despite failing to progress to the
finals, the surfing of Wayne Lynch was
outstanding (as demonstrated in
Paul Witzig's Sea of Joy and Rodney Sumpter's Freeform),
In Victoria, forced by limited finances,
he shaped and glassed his first board.
A single fin, 5 ft 11'' x 17'' with
slight belly concave and flat in the tail.
The board featured a Gun template,
reflecting some influence from the visiting US/Hawaiian surfers.
The blank was acquired cheaply by stripping
and re-shaping an osbsolete Malibu board - a common method of the period.
("Backyard
Butchery").
On returning to Maroubra in late 1970,
Ronnie began manufacturing a small number of boards for friends and locals.
Simply signed ''Goddard'' (ink on rice
paper decals) the materials were purchased in kit form.
The supply company, in Day Lane, Kensington,
also offered suitable shaping and glassing bays.
A brief visit to Victoria, circa 1971,
included glassing for Randall Surfboards, Aspindale, Melbourne.
In 1972, he moved to Coffs Harbor and
worked for Cooper Surfboards.
Although his individual approach to
design remained, the skill and experience in surfboard construction of
Bob Cooper was a distinct influence.
In 1973, Ronnie Goddard started Summercloud
Surfboards at Coffs Harbor NSW.
A South-side goofy-foot, the name refers
to one of the South Coast's premier left-hand breaks - Summer Cloud
Bay, Wreck Bay, (Australian) Pipeline, Black Rock.
Early designs were mostly multi-flyer
single fins.
In 1974 while surfing at Raglan, New
Zealand, Ronnie Goddard was first exposed to the use of leg ropes.
After destroying two of his boards
on Raglan's rocks, he attached a nylon cord and dog collar to a hole in
his one surviving board.
From 1974, in cojunction with Billy
Tolhurst and influenced by Reno Abellira's early Fish designs, Ronnie began
experimenting with twin fins.
Local interest was negligible in these
designs until the contest success and media recognition of Mark
Richards' Twin fin, circa 1978.
Summercloud Surfboards,
Coffs Harbour, circa 1977.
Image contributed with thanks
by Jim Swinton.
January 2006.
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Summercloud Surfboards,
Coffs Harbour, circa 1977.
Image contributed with thanks
by George Smith.
January 2008.
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Ronnie Goddard and Quiver,
Summercloud Surfboards,
Coffs Harbor, 1977.
Photograph : Bob Cooper
Surfing World Magazine
October 1977
Volume 25 Number 6, page 63.
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Following the close of
Summercloud (1982?), Ronnie worked for a short period at Bill Cilla's Nivarna
Surfboards, Kincumber NSW, before starting Serious Fun Surfboards
in
1984 at Coffs Harbor.
In 1990, Ronnie established Goddard
Surfboards.
Jim Swinton contributed the decal image
(above) in January 2006 and attached the following (edited) note ...
Geoff, as requested the Summercloud
logo.
I spoke to Ron Goddard, who was an
original member of the MSA (Maroubra Surfers Association) in the 1960's,
about the Summercloud brand and he mentioned that he along with Billy Tolhurst
were shaping them.
He also said that they didn't put their
names on the blank as I was looking to see who shaped this one of mine.
He said that Billy mostly had concaves
in his (boards) and as mine did not, he most probably shaped it.
Hope that helps,love your site. Regards
Jim Swinton.
Summer
Session Surfboards
1976
Central coast, NSW.
Sundance Surfboards
circa 1970 to 1976
Central Coast, NSW?
A spoon deck kneeboard noted by Len Gunther,
May 2007.
Decal image contributed by Len, right. |
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Sun Dancer Surfboards
1982
Wayne Hutch
Sunova Surfboards,
Mandurah WA.
1995
Owner/Shaper Bert Berger.
Balsa covered foam boards, (Mals and shortboards).
The balsa laminate is vacuumed onto a
shaped polysterene blank and set with epoxy resin
Reported, with thanks, Brook and Fenella
December 2003.
Sunrise Surfboards
1978
Top of Taps Surfshop,
O'Halloran Hill and Victor Harbour, South
Australia.
Phone: 29-5995
Decal image contributed
by Peter Moon, Adelaide, August 2008. |
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Sunshine
Surfboards
Queensland ?
1978
Robert Pridmore
Mark Pridmore emailed
the following (edited) comment in February, 2008:
"My father ,
Robert Pridmore worked for Cowley surfboards in the early 70's in Redcliffe
and also for labels Sunshine (which I believe was his own label ) and also
had something to do with Candleworks."
Surf Co.,
The Burleigh Heads Qld
1979
Dick van Straalen and Richard Harvey
Surf Design
Qld
1969
Dick van Straalen |
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Surfboards
Hawaii
Byron Bay NSW:
Warren Cornish
Surfline Surfboards
Surfers Paradise
1976
Peter Drouyn, Gary Joske
Sweet Country Corn
circa 1975
Crescent Head NSW?
Posibly an offshoot of Shane Surfboards?
Decal image contributed by Peter Chance, August 2008. |
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Swift
Stick Surfboards
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