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1971  Midget Farrelly Pop-out   5 ft 5 1/2" 
#54
MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Midget Farrelly Surfboards? 
SHAPER: 
DESIGN:  Pop-out 
DESIGNER: Midget Farrelly ?
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank, with false glue-line stringer , Volan  glassed (lap cuts) with bottom  pigment laminate 
DIMENSIONS 
Length: 5 ft 5 1/2''    Width:  19 1/4''       Wide Point:      +3 1/2''
Nose :      14 3/4''      Tail    14 1/4''        Pod:   8''          Thickness:   2 3/4''
(Other,    Nose/L:       Tail/L:     Weight/Volume:)
FEATURES
Nose: Pin 
Tail:  rounded square 
Deck:   rolled 
Bottom:  very slight Vee from nose to tail 
Rails: 50/50 to low soft in tail 
Rocker:
FIN:
9" x 6" base
black laminated Greenough Stage IV
set in blank and with no rovings.
Leg rope hole.
# 54 Farrelly image '70
DECOR
DECALS
Deck: Large yellow/black illustrated portrait and 'Midget Farrelly' script, 'made in australia' black text. 
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck: 
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: clear with aqua blue rail lap 
Bottom: aqua blue pigment
# 54 Farrelly image '70
NOTES
BOARD HISTORY: Purchased August 1997. 
DESIGN HISTORY 
These Popouts appeared in 1970.
Note that like most mass-produced craft, most references in surf literature are derogatory.
Usually a 5ft 6" X 20" Egg adaptation 
Commonly used stringerless glassed blanks with minimal shaping to reduce prices by about 40%. 
Often full pigment, sometimes marbled. 
Fins usually have no rovings, being mitred into the blank.
They were manufactured by Shane Surfboards ('Standard'), Wallace Surfboards ('Junior'),  Farrelly Surfboards, and Merrin Surfboards, Queensland.
Note : The template of this board is untypical (strongly based on Ted Spencer's 'White Kite' 1969, See # 46) and the blank has been scored down the centre so that the laminating resin has filled it to produce a false glue-line stringer. 
REFERENCES
Other Pop-outs
#179  1970 Wallace Egg Pop-out   6 ft,  Marbling
#196  1970 The Standard by Shane, 5 ft 5''
Other Farrelly Surfboards
#46  1969  Farrelly, Square tail  6 ft 4" 
Magazines:
Deep magazine
Mick Mock : "The Summer Millionaire " (Shane Steadman) 
Vol 4 #4 Winter 1999 pages 50 - 61 - includes photographs .
CONDITION: 7
# 54 Farrelly image '70
# 54 Farrelly image '70

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