| 1937
Wally Froiseth's Redwood Hot Curl 10ft 10 3/8'' |
#510
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MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER:
Wally Froiseth
SHAPER:
Wally Froiseth
DESIGN:
Solid wood Hot Curl
DESIGNERS:
Wally
Froiseth, John Kelly, Fran Heath |
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Balsa wood aand
redwood laminated blank, fibreglassed, finbox, fitted timber and fibreglass
fin.
DIMENSIONS
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Length:
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10
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feet |
10
3/8
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inches |
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Width:
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20
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inches |
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Wide
Point :
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+ ve
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inches |
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Nose
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12 1/2
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inches |
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Tail
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10 3/8
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inches |
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Thickness
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n/a
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inches |
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Pod
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?
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inches |
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Nose/L
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inches |
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Tail/L:
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Weight
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65
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pounds |
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Volume
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litres |
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Other
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FEATURES
Nose:
pin
Tail:
square
Deck:
flat n/a
Bottom:
convex n/a
Rails:
rounded square n/a
Rocker:
nose lift
Left
John Kelly and Wally
Froiseth's and Solid wood Hot Curl circa 1935,
photograph circa
1989.
.Surfer
Magazine Vol 30 No. 10 1989, page 106.
Photograph : Gary Lynch
FIN:
None, as standard
for the period.
DECOR
DECAL: none
MARKINGS: none
COLOUR : clear |
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Plans for...
Hawaiian redwood plank
used to mid-1930's (left)
and narrow-tail modification
of redwood plank
- about 1935.
Kelly page 110
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Wally Froiseth and
Board with Hot Curl template drawn on tail, 1936
Nat History,
page 56.
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Wally Froiseth and Dick Cross
and Hot Curl Boards, 1942
Nat History,
page 60.
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Kelly,
facing page 192.
Wally Froiseth and Hot Curl Board,
Castles - First Break, Waikiki, circa 1938.
Photograph : Joe Quigg
Kelly,
facing page 193
Close up, below..
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| IMAGE HISTORY
BOARD HISTORY
DESIGN HISTORY
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Classic men, classic equipment :
John Kelly, Wally Froiseth, George Downing,
credited with reinventing the big wave surfboard in 1936.
Photograph : Gary Lynch
Surfer
Magazine
Vol 30 No. 10 1989, page 106.
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REFERENCES |
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surfresearch.com.au
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