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?

PATIENTLY WAITING

Gordon Woods ,Ron , Gordon again,Taylor and Joe Larkin.

A LONG WAY FROM HOME

Easter Reef 1991. Look closely and you will see a surfer on the wave

FIVE SINGLES

Nat young surf designs
Barry Bennett
San Juan
Nirvana
Nirvana

SAME FIVE SINGLES

Nirvana
Nirvana
San Juan
Nat
Barry

WHAT A LOAD OF ROT

Bit of a major. But it makes good compost.

NEW STRINGER

New life.

papa he'e nalu

"Boards for surf sliding."

Made from recycled end grain balsa and western red cedar.

The balsa board left, has beed glassed.
The two on the right are blanks made from old seats from an outdoor setting. These will be oiled.

alaia

Two alaia 6'6" and 7'4".

The 7'4" has been made from an old cedar table.

kūlana nalu

Diamond Head.

"The place were waves swell up and the surfer paddles to catch them."

kīpapa

"Surfing prone."

On a crisp winters morning. Steamer, booties and flippers. Not what the ancients would be use to.