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Bob McTavishPlastic Machine, Kevin Platt Model Advertisement, right:  Keyo Surfboards  19 Sydenham Road, Brookvale, Phone: 93 1699 Surf International, Volume 1 Number 1, December 1967, page 4.

Morey - Pope  Surfboards (USA)1968
San Juan  Surfboards, Byron Bay 1968
Bare NatureSurfboards, Byron Bay 1968

Dale Surfboards, 73 Winbourne Road Brookvale 934965  1968.   Advertisement: Dale Surfboards, McTavish's Forms, circa 1968. Surf International Volume 1 Number 10 page 36. October 1968 ?

Bennett Surfboards, Brookvale  1970 -1973
Julian Rocks Surfboards, Byron Bay  1973?
Bluebird  Surfboards, Byron Bay 1973
Sky  Surfboards, Byron Bay  1974 - 1984
Classic Surfboards by McTavish, around 1977
Pro Circuit Boards 1990 :molded epoxy boards.
McTavish  Surfboards, Byron Bay 1999
Other
Illegal immigrant Hawaii 1962,
Conversion to Jehovah Witnesses 1973?

	1966 Keyo  Malibu 9 ft 4 1/2" Bob McTavish Tailor Made #224
	1969 Dale  Roundtail  7 ft 10''  #228
	1968  Keyo Tracker  7 ft #69
	1971 Bennett  Tri Fin 6 ft 8 '' #9
	1972  Bluebird Pintail, 7 ft 1'' # 215
	1979  Sky  Flyer Pintail, 6 ft 10'' # 22
	1980 Sky  Mini Mal  7ft #23
	1999  McTavish  Mini Mal 8 ft 2'' #80
	1968 Markings Scott Dillon Pintail: .829.  7ft 8''  "MAC"

McTavish Quiver, June 2207. From left to right: Keyo Dale Keyo Bluebird Sky

1967
Bob McTavish : The Wild and Wonderful Days of Noosa , Part Two : National.
Surfing World March 1967 pp 18 to 25.
Anaysis/comtemplation of one break (70%) and one wave (other 30%).
Black and white photographs include Bob McTavish at National Park sequence, bottom turn, top turn, noseride. p 23.

1967
Bob McTavish : On a bit of what's going on.
Surfing World August/September 1967 pp 37.
Performance and design circa 1967 (early-mid).
Notes Brian (sic) Simmons, George Greenough, Midget Farrelly, Ted Spencer and Bobby Brown.

1967
Bob McTavish : Writing in the sun is a cinch.
SURF INTERNATIONAL Vol 1 No.1, 1967-8? p 9.
Performance, design and artifical reefs.
(The first three issues  featured a one page article each titled and by Bob McTavish, Nat Young and Midget Farrelly)

1968
Bob McTavish : Ladies and gentlemen and children of the sun.
SURF INTERNATIONAL Vol. 1. No. 2 1967-8? p 9.
Ground breaking analysis of surfing performance that rejects the accepted approach (Detailed in Bob McTavish is in this wave. He probably had a plan to get out of it. See above): and  establishes the dictum "BREAK OUT FROM THE STRAIGHT LINE."..
In design this is achieved by: "Elimination of two feet of board."
Also note: "Farrelly, Spencer, Young, Platt and this kid were all riding considerably different styles of units at time of writing, six weeks before news-stands." - my emphasis.

1968
Bob McTavish : A plastic drinking straw.
SURF INTERNATIONAL Vol. 1 No.3 1968 p 11.
Bob McTavish's account of the Honolua Bay sessions, featured in Paul Witig's Hot Generation and Eric Blum's The Fantastic Plastic Machine
Vee bottom experiment Honolua Bay, Maui December 1967
Detailed wave analysis, the 'borrowed' (from Phil Edwards) much quoted/often parodied "A GIANT CATHEDRAL AND I AM THERE."  and Dick Brewer shaping conference.
Also note the "reported" demise of Ted Spencer's Little Red: "Ted S. had his 8'9"pintail in one piece till it was two pieces."

1968
Bob McTavish : Rincon.
Surf International Vol. 1. No. 7  June 1968  Pages 10 to 11.

1968
Bob McTavish : My Surfboard.
Surf International Vol. 1. No. 9  November 1968  Page 46.

1968
Bob McTavish : 23'' to 19''.
Surf International Vol. 1. No. 10  December 1968  Page 9.

Chis Brock, George Greenough, Dog, Garry Keyes and Bob McTavish. Wilderness factory,  Angourie - Byron Bay ?, 1969. Surfing World Magazine,  Volume 12, Number 5, 1969.

Bob McTavish. Wilderness Surfboards, Angourie, 1969. Surfing World Magazine,  Volume 12, Number 5, 1969. Photograph : ?

1970
Bob McTavish  : "Well, California again. Didn't expect it, did enjoy it..."
SURF INTERNATIONAL Vol 1 No. 6 1970? pp 8 to11.
Mat riding Rincon with George Greenough, California.
Hawaii and Sunset Beach on a Ryan Dotson Design 7'10" x 19".

1970
Captions for photographs in Tracks magazine Vol1 No 1 1970.

1971
Bob McTavish :  Streaks and Slugs.  - Surfer Tips
SURFER  Number Forty Five (Vol.No.?) December 1971? .
Discussion Pocket Rockets versus Eggs, designs and technique.

1972
Bob McTavish : Pods for Primates Part 1 : A Personal History of Surfboard Design
Tracks magazine 1972?
Reprinted in The Best of Tracks 1973?
Informative and inspirational, a major influence on this site.

1972
Bob McTavish : Pods for Primates Part 2 : A Personal History of Surfboard Design
Tracks magazine 1972?
Reprinted in The Best of Tracks 1973?
Informative and inspirational, a major influence on this site.

1976
Bob McTavish : Classic Design
Backdoor No. 12  December 1976, page 40.

1977
Bob McTavish : Spoons 1977
Surfing World Magazine Volume 24 Number 4 January-February ?  1977, pages   64 - 65.

1977
Bob McTavish : Modern Malibu
Surfer Magazine Vol 18  No.4  1977, pages 102 - 103.

1978
 Bob McTavish : Ace in the Hole : The Asymmetric Story.
Seanotes magazine August/Septerber 1978  pages 38  - 39.

1980
Bob McTavish : A Decade of Design
Tracks magazine January 1980

Magazine Articles About Bob McTavish
1. Eccentrics SW
2.Interview SW 1972
3.Paul Gross :  in Surfer magazine
3.Australian Surfers journal
Magazine Advertisments Featuring Bob McTavish

2009  McTavish, Bob: Stoked! Hyams Publishing. PO Box 171 Huskisson, NSW 2540, 2009.  www.hyams.com.au Hard cover, 431 pages, black and white photographs, Some of My Friends, Glossary, Index. Review Bob McTavish's enthusiasm for surfing, and life generally, permeate Stoked!, covering his surfing career up to 1968, which leaves open the possibility of a further volume covering the next 40 years. While the formative years in Queensland as a member of Caloundra Surf Life Saving Club are highly interesting, for the reader who has closely followed McTavish's numerous media contributions, many of the stories from the 1960s are extremely familiar. Indeed, in some cases their re-telling here seems to lack some of the freshness evident in the original versions. As expected, there are some minor errors in dates or spelling (Milner, not Millner, page 38) and a tendency to somewhat overstate the author's impact on the surfing industry. This is evident in the account of the Vee bottom board during 1967 (Part 8) - Midget Farrelly had already established the "lightweight" stringerless as an industry standard by 1966 and he played a major role in the radical reduction in board lengths. In 1973, McTavish wrote: "At the same time Midget's shop at Palm Beach was running stiff competition with us at Keyo's. As we'd cut 2" off, Midget would cut 4" off, then vice versa." Significantly, he rejects the commonly held myth that his and Nat Young's plus nine foot V-bottom surfboards taken to Hawaii in December 1967 initiated the Short Board Revolution (pages 383 to 396).

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