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| 1964 Pacific Star by Dunlop Malibu 9 ft 7'' |
#236
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Length :
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9
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ft |
7
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inches |
L2:
9ft
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6'' |
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Width :
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22
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inches |
Wide Point :
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+ve 9
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inches | |
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Nose :
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15.75
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inches |
Tail :
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15
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inches | |
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Thickness :
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3
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inches |
Pod :
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5
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inches | |
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Nose Lift :
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inches |
Tail Lift :
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inches | |||
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Weight :
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kilos |
Volume :
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litres | |||
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Other :
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inches |
| FEATURES
Nose: Rounded Pin. Tail: Square Deck: Flat Bottom: Flat with slight lift up on rails. Rails: Round Rocker: some nose lift |
| FIN
8 1/2'' x 10'' base x 10'' span @ 1''. Fibreglass mat fin, blue pigment. |
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| DECOR
DECALS Deck: Pacific Star Custom Built Boards and Dunlop text in offset oval graphic - green and black at the tail. Small, possibly metalic label with illegible text and numerals inserted into the foam on right hand side below the decal (image below, right). Bottom: MARKINGS Deck: 270 and S - pencil inside decal. Bottom: COLOUR Deck: Clear with two colour offset resin gel bands at sweet spot Bottom: Clear. 1965 -1966 Surf Permit - red with the centre (indicating the issuing authority) removed in front of fin. |
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unique brass tag with personal identification numbers, acceptable to insurance companies and police. |
| Just had a great conversation with Bruen
Finey, a fibreglass sculptor and manufacturer in
Brookvale in the late 1950s and 60s who made surfboards
for Dunlop along with his own business ‘Crest
Surfboards’ out of a factory in Roger Street. Dunlop distributed his boards far and wide across the state – wherever they had a sports store. Bruen left the army after 1945 and studied sculpture, funded by an ex-war service grant, and took up working with fibreglass and foam in the 1950s, building chemical vats and shop displays, based in Brookvale where land was cheap and other fibreglass companies were located. He recalled sourcing polyurethane chemicals from a sugar refining company in Waterloo, but couldn’t remember the name. His contract with Dunlop to supply large numbers of boards every week meant hiring itinerant shapers, finishers and polishers. Bruen did all the glassing himself. ‘When the surf was up, no one wanted to work’. Profit was small and output of boards was slow so he decided to develop standard molds and ‘pop-out’ a generic shape. Not surprisingly, this proved a flop as surfers were a ‘fussy breed’ and wanted unique features and characteristics – so decided to sell business to Dunlop, who moved the board making operation to St Mary’s, far from the surf. |
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| Surfing World Volume 5 Number 3 November 1964, page 14. TAKE OFF
ON DUNLOP!
Even the great power waves come under
control with Dunlop. Dunlop Pacific Star surfboard - the
magnificent newcomer- designed and custom-built for
Dunlop at Brookvale, mecca of board-building.Standard 9* 6" single stringer board is shaped for speed and perfect balance; its fin designed for extra strength and control. And every Pacific Star has its own built-in code tag to protect you against theft or loss; a unique brass tag with personal identification numbers, acceptable to insurance companies and police. |
 DUNLOP
HAND SURFA
- for the challenge of body-surfing across the wave. Hand Surfa gives you a taster, more exciting ride. Moulded hard-impact plastic with streamlined fin for directional control and greater stability, adjustable terylene hand straps and quick-release rustproof buckle. When the waves are on . . . ride Dunlop. |
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 Pacific Star decal, #293-2494. |
 Dunlop
Surfboards
Vary the fin to different surfs. Remove it for easy transportation. Fin is held firmly in position with specially designed nylon slot attachment. Surfabout 1966 Volume 3 Number 7, page 5. Form Rite Plastics HandSurfa
Surfing World September 1964 Volume 5 Number 1, page 17. |
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