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1963           Wally Carle Chambered Balsa Malibu               9 ft 8"
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MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Wally Carle, 10 Angle Road Grays Point, NSW Phone: 524 2556
SHAPER:  Wally Carle
DESIGN:  (Sausage) Malibu
DESIGNER: 
SPECIFICATIONS

CONSTRUCTION
Chambered balsa blanks with 1" redwood stringer and tailblock. Fibreglassed.
DIMENSIONS
Length :
9 
ft   8 inches L2:
Width :
 21 1/2
inches
Wide Point :
 + 3
inches
Nose :
 17
inches
Tail :
 14 1/2
inches
Thickness :
 3 1/2
inches
Pod :
 4
inches
Nose Lift :
  inches
Tail Lift :
  inches
Weight :
  kilos
Volume :
  litres
Other :
  inches

 

FEATURES
Nose: Round with tip 
Tail:  Square 
Deck: Flat 
Bottom:  Flat 
Rails: Round 
Rocker: Slight, more in tail

FIN
8 1/4 x 10 inch (base) @ 2 1/2 inches 
Redwood with 2 balsa strips and glass bead.

DECOR
DECALS
Deck: None - possibly had foil or vinyl stickers
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck:  none
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: clear
Bottom:

NOTES
HISTORY
COMMENTARY
Purchased 1980, Enfield, Sydney.
Previous ding repairs filled with dark Plasti-Bond, these were removed and all repairs completed with Volan glass.
Leg-rope block added.
Board glossed and  repairs sprayed by Jackson Surfboards, 1995.
The decision to spray has subsequently been regretted.
This board was made by the same manufacturer and almost a copy of my second surfboard, see # 2.
The board was displayed at my surfboard exhibition:

FIFTY YEARS of the MALIBU SURFBOARD  in AUSTRALIA. 1956 - 2006.
Shoalhaven Heads  Surf Life Saving Club.  Sunday  17th September 2006.
Longtime Cronulla surfer, Dave attended and confirmed the board was chambered and built by Wally Carle.
Wally also worked for Norm Casey Surfboards, Rockdale.
Many thanks to Dave.

REFERENCES:
CONDITION: 8, spray.
Wally Carle Surfboards
10 Angle Road Grays Point, NSW
Phone: 524 2556
1959
Wally Carle

Advertisement, right: 
Wally Carle Surfboards
Surfabout Volume 1 Number 1 August 1962 page 32.

This photograph of Wal Carle was printed below the advertisement on the same page:



Surfabout
August 1962 - Spring 1968. 
Editor :Jack Eden 
Image: Vol 1 #1 August 1962.

Cover : Wally Carle.
Photograph by Jack Eden.

Surfer identified by Julia Carle by a phone call, August 2010.
Many thanks to Julia.

The Southside/Cronulla version of Bob Evans' Surfing World
Vol1 #2 December 1962






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