RAMDOM SHOTS

JACKSON RICIE

This is the ricie of the Jackson.

It has been removed and cleaned up.

This photo was taken up against a window

with the light shining through.

Unfortunately it will not be a clear

when it is re bonded to the board.

YELLOW 'DALE' UPDATE

At some stage a plastic fin was crudely fitted

into the original Safeset finbox.

Making it impossible to use the finbox.

There were a couple of options.
Remove the old box and fit a new/second hand Safeset box.
Or fill the old box and set a new fin on top.
After removing a Safeset box from a donor board.
Which was a major job.
And caused some damage.
Filling the box and setting a new fin was by far the better option.
So the old box was cleaned up.
A 3mm rebate was cut into the box to make a clean edge.
Then filled with pigmented resin and milled fibre.
This was then capped with a two layers of 4oz cloth on the bias.


New fin set and filler coated.
Ready for sanding.

10' BALSA BUILD Pt 2

Once the four logs were glued up.

The middle two logs were glued up with the pre shaped stringer.

The logs were then planed down to the stringer.

FINZ

The blue one is for the yellow Dale.

The natural one is for the Jackson.

The fish fins are stockies.

SHADOWS

The shapers friend.

7' funboard shape.

Shaped by Bill Cilia.

THE JOEY

From Bouddi.

JACKSON

Almost a V-Bottom.

Shaped or designed by Gordon Merchant.

Shame about the fin box.

This Jackson Surfboards artwork appears to be hand masked
and painted with pigmented resin.

Slight nose damage.

LOW TECH, BUT EFFECTIVE

Twenty two 2 litre milk bottles full of water.

Equates to 44kg.

Ready for grinding.
Then a capping lam over the join.

ANOTHER BLAST FROM THE PAST

Found at a garage sale for $5

SATURDAY MORNING CLOSE TO HOME

ANOTHER DALE

Another Dale has come in for restoration.

Found at a garage sale for $20.

Printed on the blank.

7'6"

SOD

Noosa

Steve O'Donnell worked at Dale in the late 60's.

READY TO GLASS

This is a little double ender.

The blank was from an old 70's backyard single fin.

The tiger stripe was done by dipping a length of wool in acrylic paint

and then draped on the painted blank and pulled tight around the rails.

DALE TRANSITION / HULL

Back to reality.

Ready to rebond the glass.

The join will be hidden behind a pinline.

1ST POINT NOOSA

Got lucky again.

Plenty of waves.

Cyclone Hamish washed away all of the beach.

The 1st point take off has moved west about 40 to 50m.

The sucky outside take off was closing out.

The low tide sweep was horrendous this year.

Must be something to do with the changed conditions.

ANOTHER HAPPY CAMPER

Andrew Mooney and his new toy.

Hopefully he won't be test riding it at Shipsterns.

SOUTH AVALON SUMMER 65/66

Man was yet to walk on the moon.

But I was taking my first tentative steps toward a surfing life.

Found this photo amongst some old family photos.

10' BALSA BUILD Pt1

You might call this, building a balsa board the hard way.

But all the balsa and cedar is recycled and cost nothing.

The balsa, all 240 plus 6"x 6"x 2" blocks of end grain

balsa had been thrown out by a

boatbuilding company that I use to work for.

The cedar was an old outdoor table.

The blocks were glued up 21 at a time in a jig.

Then 3 at a time were glued end to end to form four 10' 6" long logs.

TWO SHOES OVER

The result of a few filler and gloss coats.

And some time on my hands.

TAYLOR MADE

This board is a Taylor. Built in Wow Woy

on the NSW Central coast.

Mr Taylor was a shipwright.

His shed was on the water front

next to the fish markets.

Just glossed.

CHOOK, CHOOK, CHOOKIE.

The neighbours chooks love our back yard.

4 HOURS OF SANDING

Two partially sanded boards

And a whole lot of dust.

UNDERCOATED

The little Mc grigor twinnie

finally gets some paint.

A week or so to cure

a lite sand, then some colour.

FROM THIS, TO THIS, INTO THIS.

A new fin for my new 8'er.

Board shaped by Bill Cilia.

Nirvana Surfboards.

DANS EGAN S-DECK

Just glossed.

Almost ready to pull the tape.

This is the board shown in an earlier post

having the nose re bonded.

ANDREWS ALAIA

Built for Andrew Mooney.

7' x 16" x just under 3/4"

There is a slight taper toward the tail.

The rails are 6mm.

Western Red Cedar.

Linseed oil

TWIN TWINS

Both built on Sydneys Northern Beaches in the late 70's.

Both have little flyers just behind the fins.

Both have little keel type fins.

Both need restoring.

GETTING SOME UV's

After over a week of rain the sun came out .

Not for long, but long enough to do some glossing.

The old UV resin sure does speed things up.

REBONDED

Glass, resin and clamps.

READY TO REBOND

The nose on this board was badly delaminated.
Drilling and injecting was not an option.
So it was opened up around the apex of the rail.

SAM'S "SAM" ?

Looking at this board in the flesh. Was it based on Nat's
long lost Sam? Or were thing moving in that direction up and down the coast anyway?