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the catalogue #104

1974 Hot Buttered, Flyer swallowtail 6 ft 10"

#104

Image adjusted to highlight spray art.

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Hot Buttered Surfboards, 9 Mitchell Road Brookvale NSW ph.
SHAPER: Terry Fitzgerald
DESIGN: Swallow tail flyer
DESIGNER: Terry Fitzgerald

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION: Fibreglassed foam blank, 1/4" redwood stringer, spray art,
DIMENSIONS

*Length :*	6	ft	10.5	inches
*Width :*	20.75	inches		*Wide Point :*		inches
*Nose :*		inches		*Tail :*		inches
*Thickness :*	3.5	inches		*Pod :*	4	inches
*Nose Lift :*		inches		*Tail Lift :*		inches
*Weight :*	6.10	kilos		*Volume :*		litres
*Other, Flyer/s :*		inches

FEATURES
Nose: pin
Tail: swallow, with flyers
Deck: flat and straight
Bottom: flat, slight Vee
Rails: low box
Rocker: medium

FIN
Brewer wide base
Similar design, but fin boxed, # 92 right

DECOR
DECALS
Deck
'Hot Buttered Surfboards/Designed and Shaped By Terry Fitzgerald' script and rainbow at sweet spot.
Frank Williams version #92, right.
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck: None?
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck:
Bottom: '' Wave and birds'' spray art by Martin Worthington

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Catalogue # 00001327 Purchased/donated 16/12/1987
Australian National Maritime Museum 2 Murray Street Darling Harbor, Sydney NSW 2001, Australia See Notes on ANMM.
Exhibited : Surf! Enviroment Politics and Life 1960 - 1985.
Laperouse Museum, The Cable Station, Botany Bay National Park, Sydney.
12 December 1997 - 13 June 1998.
Curator : Stephen Thompson/NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Photograph by Bob Gumley.

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 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 1972 Vol 16 #6

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

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