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the catalogue #263

1978 Natural Flow Double-flyer Rounded Pintail 5 ft 10" - shaped by Peter Hitchen

#263

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Natural Flow Surf Design, Shoalhaven Heads, NSW
SHAPER: Peter Hitchen
DESIGN: Double-flyer Rounded Pintail
DESIGNER:
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank, 1/8'' redwood stringer, laminated pigment, pin-lines, finbox, L/h legrope plug.

DIMENSIONS

**Length :***	5	ft	10	inches	*L2:* 5ft 10''
*Width :*	19.5	inches		*Wide Point :*	+2	inches
*Nose :*	13	inches		*Tail :*	14 .5	inches
*Thickness :*	2 .75	inches		*Pod :*	0	inches
*Nose Lift :*		inches		*Tail Lift :*		inches
*Weight :*		kilos		*Volume :*		litres
*Flyers:*	0.5	inches	@	6'' and 12''

FEATURES
Nose: rounded pin
Tail: double-flyer rounded pin
Deck:
Bottom: flat
Rails: down and harder in the tail.
Rocker: medium

FIN
Finbox: 10'' Dion @ 8''
White

DECOR
DECALS
Deck:
Natural Flow - blue-yellow script forward of sweet spot along the stringer.
Natural Flow and Surf Design, Shoalhaven Heads - black text along stringer, image below.
Bottom:
Natural Flow (x2, one flopped) - black script along stringer at sweet-spot.
Surf Design, Shoalhaven Heads - black text along stringer, see below.
MARKINGS
Deck: 5'10'' x 19 1/2'' - pencil along the stringer at the tail.
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: Clear with green pigment laminated rail lap, black pin-lines.
Bottom: Green laminated pigment, black diamond pin-lines at sweet-spot.

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Dimensions and photographs March 2015.

DESIGN HISTORY
A stock rounded pintail of the late-1970s.
In the late 1970s, the design was most identified with South African professional surfer, Shaun Thomson, who was seen as representing the Single Fin Coalition against the evil Axis of the Twin Fin and it's leader, Mark Richards.