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the catalogue #204

1960 Paipo/Belly Board 3 ft 2"

#204

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Backyard
SHAPER:
DESIGN: Paipo/Belly Board - Twin fin
DESIGNER: Unknown

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Five ply with redwood timber hand grip. Branded decal. Varnished.

DIMENSIONS

*Length :*	3	ft	2 1/4	inches	*L2:*
*Width :*	19 3/4	inches		*Wide Point :*	+3 3/4	inches
*Nose :*	19	inches		*Tail :*	18 3/4	inches
*Thickness :*	1/2	inches		*Pod :*	17	inches
*Nose Lift :*	1/2	inches		*Tail Lift :*		inches
*Weight :*		kilos		*Volume :*		litres
*Other :*		inches

FEATURES
Nose: semi pin/round
Tail: Square
Deck: Redwood Vee (13'') shaped hand grip near nose, screwed from bottom - five putty holes
Bottom: flat
Rails: rounded square
Rocker: miminal nose lift

FINS: Two Dee/Rounded keel, plywood timber, 3 1/2" x 8" base, fixed by dowel through deck and redwood side supports and brass screws

DECOR
DECALS:
Deck:
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck: ' Rocket' and bars, hand branded into board on nose
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: clear/natural
Bottom:

NOTES
HISTORY
COMMENTS:
REFERENCES
Other Boards
See Paipo # 113 ,
Surfworld Museum, Torquay Victoria. : Lamaroo # 26
See Paipo Catalogue
Books
Margan and Finney:Illustrated History (1970) Photographs, pages 152 - 156
CONDITION: 9.5

Bottom

3204 Plywood belly board, Margan and Finney 1970 page 156

Leigh Tingle and Plywood belly board, Haliewa, 1964.
Image contributed by Leigh Tingle.

Leigh Tingle reports...
The photo at bottom of page of a bellyboard rider is me.
Taken at Haliewa Oahu January 1964 using an existing balsa fibreglass bellyboard made by Scott Dillon, Noel Ward and Gordon Woods in February 1958.
It is now 43 years old and still going strong.
If I remember correctly the photograph was from the Surfabout magazine.
A replica of the board has just been finsihed by my son Sam for a school Tutorial Task.
Many thanks, Leigh.
Printed in Margan and Finney: Illustrated History (1970) page 156.