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1975 Scott Dillon Stinger 6 ft 8" Bill Urbany.

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MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Scott Dillon Surfboards, 2 Gauldrons Road Coffs Harbour
SHAPER: Bill Urbany (USA)
DESIGN: Stinger
DESIGNER: Ben Apia

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Fibreglassed foam blank, with 1/4" redwood stringer , tint laminate, resin pinlines, r/h plug
DIMENSIONS

*Length:*	6	feet	8	inches
*Width:*	19 3/4	inches		*Wide Point:*	+ve	inches
*Nose :*	13 1/2	inches		*Tail:*	11 1/2	inches
*Thickness:*	2 1/2	inches		*Pod:*	5 1/2	inches
*Nose/L:*		inches		*Tail/L:*		inches
*Weight:*		inches		*Volume:*		inches
*Stinger:*	24	inches

FEATURES
Nose: Pin
Tail: swallow
Deck: flat
Bottom: Flat, slight Vee in tail
Rails: Low soft block rails at sting, fine in tail
Rocker: Tail lift from sting

FIN
7 1/2" x 6" base
laminated Wide base .
Large leg rope/security hole.

DECOR
DECALS
Deck
1.'Scott Dillon/Surfboards' rail to rail black script/ribbon, includes ' 2 Gauldrons Road Coffs Harbour' black text. See below.
2.Large 'URBANY' + graphic, black verticle on tail See below.
Bottom
'Scott Dillon/Surfboards' rail to rail black script/ribbon, includes ' 2 Gauldrons Road Coffs Harbour' black text.
MARKINGS
Deck: " 6' 8"/D " pencil on tail
Bottom: 'Jeff' pencil on tail
COLOUR
Deck
Yellow pigment/tint laminate with dark rail lap.
Black pin lines front 2/3rd, double pin lines on tail, 1" back V at sting (mirrors 'URBANY' graphic).
Bottom: yellow pigment/tint laminate with dark rail lap

NOTES

BOARD HISTORY
Used as a painted sign by The Board Centre, 956 Woodville Road Villawood.
Painted additions included 'SURF SALE' in blue and 'NOW OPEN' in red on bottom.
Also with nose and fin security holes.
Image right.
Purchased 20 July 1996 at closing sale.
Paint removed and repaired,
Yellow Q-cells in nose security holes - two, drilled through blank.
The bottom step is not present in this example and the standard swallow tail has extensive damage, emdemic to this design.

SHAPER HISTORY
Bill Urbany shaped for Scott Dillon Surfboards, Coffs Harbour circa 1973-1976 (Scott Dillon).
He previously was the designer of Urbany Hollow Hulls, a US company, and the decal is similar to that used on the Scott Dillon board.

"My hollow hulls have fondleability - Bill Urbany (213) 3062951", circa 1973?

Surfing
March, 1990.
Volume 26 Number 3, page 102
Included in an article titled Where are they now?

Urbany was subsequently a shaper at Con Surfboards, circa 1979.

See advertisement in
Surfer July 1979
Volume 19 Number 3 , page 17.

Bill Urbany : shaper / surfer, Con Surfboards, 1979

DESIGN HISTORY
Designed in 1974 by Ben Apia (Hawaii) characterised by
1.sting/flyers/wings set 2/3 rds back from the nose,
2. a stepped bottom at the flyers (featured only on early models) and
3.a swallow tail.
Fin boxes were common.

Note design precedents..
1. 442 by Hap Jacobs, 1962 and
2. Hydroplane by John Kelly Jr., 1965.

Ridden by Mark Richards 1975-77.
He rode 'Old Faithful/Flame' 6 ft 8" by Ben Apia at the...
1976 Rip Curl / Mordy Bells Beach Easter Classic (second to Jeff Hackman);
1976 2SM / Coke Surfabout, Sydney (1st);
1977 (the first) Stubbies Contest, Burleigh Heads (Second to Michael Peterson).
This contest was the introduction of Peter Drouyn’s Man on Man system.See below.

Reported, with thanks, by Saxon June 2003...
Hydroplane Stingers were made extensively by Len Dibben (Surfboards) in Perth in the seventies.
I have seen the photo albums to prove it.
REFERENCES
Magazines
1. Tracks, Nov 1974 # 50 page 4 See Plans and Specifications : Stinger
2. Surfing World Vol 25#1 early 1977? pages 55-56
Books
1. Knox : Mark Richards pages 60-62
2. Parry :Stoked!
Ben Apia’s two unsuccessful attempts to reproduce Mark Richards’ Flame Stinger (1976?) – page 88.
CONDITION: 6

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#43p MR's Apia/Brewer Stingers, circa 1976

Photograph by Peter Booskovic
Printed in The Australian Surfers Journal Vol 1 # 3 Winter 1998 page 44
Note : Original Apia Surfboards 'Flame' Stinger, All Stingers with fin boxes, Twin fins with various decals.
All boards much photographed.

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