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FIN  Not available. 10 inch  Multifins fin box, black. Hot Buttered boxed fin,  see # 92 below.

DECOR DECALS Deck Designed and Shaped By Grant Miller/Hot Dot Desins - text and script in red circle at sweet spot. HB/Hot Buttered - text in red and yellow. See below. Bottom Designed and Shaped By Grant Miller/Hot Dot Desins - text and script in red circle at sweet spot. Massively delaminated. MARKINGS Deck: Professional Advancement/Versus Ideals - pencil along stringer at tne nose. See below. Bottom: 6'1'' D.D. - pencil along stringer at tail. COLOUR Deck: Clear with red rail lap and yellow pinlines. Bottom: Laminated red pigment.

MANUFACTURER & SHAPER HISTORY
After several years shaping at Shane Surfboards, Brookvale and a six-month shaping workshop with Dick Brewer  in Hawaii, Terry Fitzgerald began production of his Hot Buttered Surfboards circa 1972 (clear boards were $99, tints $102 and sprays $110).
The boards were heavily influenced by Brewer’s Hawaiian design theories and the spray work by Martin Worthington was quickly acclaimed and imitated.
Terry Fitzgerald competed on the fledgling professional circuit in the early 1970s and starred in Alby Falzon’s Morning of the Earth 1972.
Hot Buttered Surfboards and surf products are now sold internationally.

REFERENCES
Other Hot Buttered Surfboards : # 92
BOOKS
1.Channon, Bruce and McLeod, Hugh :  Surfing the Chain of Fire
- essay by Terry Fitzgerald

2.Val Dusty Experiment: Litmus – A Surfing Odyssey 1996   pages x

MAGAZINES
Articles
1.Terry Fitzgerald :"Life in the Fast Lane" (Retrospective 1972 - 1977)
Surfing World magazine  1977 Sept ?  Vol 27 #3 pages 69 - 72.

2.  Phil Jarrett : "The Sultan of Speed" (Retrospective 1960 - 1999)
The Australian Surfers Journal Vol 1 #2 Autumn 1999 page 28 - 45.
Brewer/Hot Buttered Surfboards pages 42 -44.

Ads
1. Early: Hot Buttered Surfboards
Surfing World magazine  1972  Vol 16 #6

2. Similar board  : Cool Custom Crafted Quality
Surfing World magazine  September 1974  Vol 19 #6.

INTERNET
www.hotbuttered.com.au/...History
www.hotbuttered.com.au/galleries7

CONDITION: 4.5

#65: Deck markings, nose.

#65: Deck decal #2

# 65: Tail.

#92 Frank Williams shape

# 92: Hot Buttered boxed fin.

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