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MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: WM Surfboards, 58 A Cumberland Road Auburn. Sydney
SHAPER: Unknown - possibly Vic Elliot.
DESIGN: V-bottom - Stubby - Plastic Fantastic Machine
DESIGNER: Bob McTavish - Midget Farrelly - Others

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank with 3/4 x 1/4" redwood stringer, Volan glassed with Hour-glass deck patch, colour gel coat on bottom.
DIMENSIONS

*Length:*	8	feet	6	inches
*Width:*	23	inches		*Wide Point:*	-ve	inches
*Nose :*		inches		*Tail:*		inches
*Thickness:*		inches		*Pod:*	8	inches
*Weight:*		kilos		*Volume:*		litres
*Nose/L:*		inches		*Tail/L:*		inches
*Other*

FEATURES
Nose: round
Tail: chamfered square tail
Deck: rolled
Bottom: Three phase Flat, Round and deep Vee.
Rails: Thin 50/50

DECOR
DECALS
Deck
1. WM SURFBOARDS - blue at rear sweet spot, image below
2.' WM in box on pod , image right
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck:
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: Clear
Bottom: White gel-coat to 1" off rail with right-hand 4" Orange stripe.

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Custom order, purchased May 1968 ($94).00 and photographed at Coalcliff Beach, 1968 by Jocelyn O'Conor, see below.
DESIGN HISTORY
For an extended history of the development of vee bottom boards see:
history: a period of transition 1967-1968
COMMENTS
Atypically long for this period, the board was virtually obsolete by the time it got to the beach.
When the board was picked up from the shop all the current designs were pintails.
The hourglass deck patch is uncommon, however note Knox: Mark Richards, below.
The three-quarter stringer was copied from Hansen Surfboards (USA) 'Superlight/Featherlite' ? model - to make the nose lighter (?).
The chamfered pod and bottom decor were both copied from a Midget Farrelly design.
Similar designs: G&S # 26 (replacement) and ...
Other WM boards: pintails # 75 (below) and #107, and WM Tracker #385
REFERENCES:
Book
Knox, David :Mark Richards : A Surfing Legend
Photo (Ray Richards?) of similar deck patch on similar design board, page 30.
Also see: #168
CONDITION: 9

Image Above
#3 Coalcliff Beach, 1968
Photograph/Jocelyn O'Conor.

# 3 Deposit
19 April 1968

Image Above
#75 WM Pintail Vee 1968
Katoomba, 1999
Photograph/Jocelyn Mansell, nee O'Conor.