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1963         Wally Carle Chambered Balsa Malibu              9 ft 4 inch
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MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Wally Carle, 10 Angle Road Grays Point, NSW Phone: 524 2556
SHAPER:  Wally Carle
DESIGN:  (Sausage) Malibu
DESIGNER: 
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Chambered balsa blanks with three 1" redwood stringers and 5 piece tail-block.
Fibreglassed.
DIMENSIONS
-estimations based on # 23
Length :
9 
 ft  6 inches L2:
Width :
 21 1/2
 inches
Wide Point :
  +3
 inches
Nose :
 17
 inches
Tail :
 14 1/2
 inches
Thickness :
 3 1/2
 inches
Pod :
 4
 inches
Nose Lift :
   inches
Tail Lift :
   inches
Weight :
   kilos
Volume :
   litres
Other :
   inches

 
FEATURES
Nose: Round with tip
Tail:  Square
Deck:   Flat
Bottom:  Flat
Rails: Round
Rocker: Slight, more in tail
FIN
8 1/4" x 10"(base) 
redwood with 2 x 2 balsa strips and glass bead.
DECOR
DECALS
Deck: None - possibly had foil or vinyl stickers 
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck:  none 
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: clear 
Bottom:
NOTES
HISTORY
Purchased circa 1963, by John Sentence, Llangollian Avenue Enfield, Sydney.
Purchased by Frank and Betty Cater as Christmas present for Geoff Cater, December 1965.
Board reshaped as 8 ft Pintail in the winter of 1968, a case of backyard butchery that confirmed the chambered construction.
COMMENTS: Companion board to # 24.

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CONDITION: 9
MANUFACTURER HISTORY

Wally Carle Surfboards
10 Angle Road Grays Point, NSW
Phone: 524 2556
1959
Wally Carle

Advertisement, right: 
Wally Carle Surfboards
Surfabout Volume 1Number 1 August 1962 page 32.
 
This photograph of Wal Carle was printed below the advertisement on the same page:

Surfabout
August 1962 - Spring 1968. 
Editor :Jack Eden 
Image: Vol 1 #1 August 1962.

Cover : Wally Carle.
Photograph by Jack Eden.

Surfer identified by Julia Carle by a phone call, August 2010.
Many thanks to Julia.

The Southside/Cronulla version of Bob Evans' Surfing World
Vol1 #2 December 1962

 Lynette Cater, Seven Mile Beach, circa 1966.
Photograph: Betty Cater,

Geoff Cater, Seven Mile Beach, circa 1966.
Photograph: David Cater
Left: 
Diane Cater, Shoalhaven River, circa 1966.
Photograph: Betty Cater

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