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the catalogue #74

1965 Hohensee Stringerless Malibu 9 ft

#74

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Hohensee Surfboards, Queensland
SHAPER:
DESIGN: Stringerless Malibu
DESIGNER: Midget Farrelly

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Stringerless foam blank, Volan glass with bottom tail patch.
Fabric nose patch with thick black pinlines. Added legrope block.
DIMENSIONS

*Length:*	9	feet	1	inches
*Width:*	23 1/2	inches		*Wide Point:*	-ve 6	inches
*Nose :*	17 1/2	inches		*Tail:*	17	inches
*Thickness:*		inches		*Pod:*	8	inches
*Nose/L:*		inches		*Tail/L:*		inches
*Weight:*		kilograms		*Volume:*		litres
*Other:*

FEATURES
Nose: round
Tail: square
Deck: rolled
Bottom: soft round/full round/rounded vee at fin
Rails: Thin 50/50 tending down at the tail
Rocker:

FIN
12" x 7 1/2" base,
Blue laminated with legrope hole.

DECOR
DECALS
Deck: 'Hohensee' green blocked arrow at tail - image left
Bottom: 'Hohensee' black script/oval at nose - image bottom left
MARKINGS
Deck: ' 65' -pencil at tail
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck
Clear with green/white floral cloth nose patch with thick black resin border line.
Bottom: clear

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Purchased Jackson Surfboards, Sydney 20 Oct? 1999.
Floral cloth nose patch added post poduction.
DESIGN HISTORY
Midget Farrelly used a similer design to win the World Small Wave Contest, Peru 1965.
MANUFACTURER HISTORY
Laurie Hohensee was one of Queensland's early manufacturers.
REFERENCES
Magazine
Ad : Longboarding Magazine Spring 1998, phhotographs of four pre-1967 boards
CONDITION: 8