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1975  Backyard Spoon deck Kneeboard   5 ft 7" 
#68 

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER:  Backyard
SHAPER: Unknown
DESIGN:  Spoon deck Kneeboard
DESIGNER: George Greenough
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Fibreglassed foam blank, 1/4"stringer,  tint laminate. Post production R/h leg-rope plug.
DIMENSIONS
Length :
 5
 feet
 7
 inches

Width :
 19.25
 inches
Wide Point :
   inches
Nose :
 13.75
 inches
Tail :
x15 .25
 inches
Thickness :
   inches
Pod :
 x10.25
 inches
Nose Lift :
   inches
Tail Lift :
   inches
Weight :
   kilos
Volume :
   litres
Other, Flyer/s :
   inches

 
FEATURES
Nose: round
Tail:  rounded diamond
Deck:   Dished/Spoon
Bottom:  flat
Rails:
Rocker:
FIN
8.5" x 5.5" base
Greenough Stage II, laminated. 
Leg rope hole
DECOR
DECALS
Deck: Hand drawn rooster head in semi circle, tail
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck:
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: Yellow tint
Bottom: Yellow tint, hand painted 'G&S' logo black
NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Puchased Cash Converters, Coffs Harbor May1998.
Severve dings, some repaired with Q-cells.
DESIGN HISTORY
Use of spooned deck to lower centre of gravity, derived from George Greenough's Spoon (see # 76, itself modelled on his original balsa wood design) but without the flex bottom.
Substantially increased floation, it was a favoured design of Rex Huffman, USA, circa 1974.
COMMENTS
Quality of the shape and original glassing indicate a high skill level for a backyard board
Note hand drawn decal.
The fin may be from a previous board.
The painted 'G&S' probably added later.
REFERENCES
See other Kneeboards at Paipo Catalogue
Web Page:  My Paipo Boards and ...More. - page by Rod Rodgers, Baltimore Maryland.
CONDITION:  4.


Other Spoon Decks
1973 Barry Bennett  Spoon-deck knee-board: 4ft 11".
Resin glue line stringer, full orange tint, three colour fin laminate, Number 7302.






1973 McGrigor Spoon-deck knee-board: 5ft 4" x 19.75".





1974 McGrigor Spoon-deck swallow-tail knee-board: 5ft 7" x 19.5" Number 4076

Tracks circa 1977?
Kneeboards, spoons and custom boards by ...
Barry King, Michael McCormack, Darryl Sykes, and John Fleck.
 
1974 Klemm-Bell Spoon-deck swallow-tail surfboard/knee-board: 5ft 9"
1974 Spoon-decked knee-board by Bill Hall


This board has a rare ski-tail template, see #227
The fin is broken and the black patches on the rails maybe repairs over rail handles?

   


surfresearch.com.au
home catalogue history references appendix
Geoff Cater (1999-2021) : Backyard Spoon-deck Knee-board, 1975.
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