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the catalogue #113

1956 Belly Board 3' 9"

#113

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Unknown (USA?)
SHAPER: Unknown
DESIGN: Paipo/Belly Board - Twin fin
DESIGNER: Unknown

CONSTRUCTION
balsa blocks with redwood stringers laminated to form blank. Fibreglassed. Timber hand grip.

DIMENSIONS

*Length :*	3	ft	9	inches	*L2:*
*Width :*	20	inches		*Wide Point :*	+ve 8	inches
*Nose :*		inches		*Tail :*		inches
*Thickness :*	1 1/2	inches		*Pod :*	17	inches
*Nose Lift :*		inches		*Tail Lift :*		inches
*Weight :*		kilos		*Volume :*		litres
*Other :*		inches

FEATURES
Nose: round
Tail: Square
Deck: Vee shaped hand grip near nose
Bottom:
Rails: flat
Rocker: miminal nose lift

FINS: Two Dee/Rounded keel, Glassed timber, 3 1/2" x 8" base

DECOR
DECALS:
Deck:
Bottom: Red 1961 Surfcraft registration sticker, # 1472 - (Waverly?) in front of fins
MARKINGS
Deck:
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: clear
Bottom: clear with red 1961 Surfcraft registration sticker, # 1472 - Waverly?

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Exhibited : Surf! Enviroment Politics and Life 1960 - 1985.
La Perouse Museum, The Cable Station, Botany Bay National Park, Sydney.
12 December 1997 - 13 June 1998.
Curator : Stephen Thompson/NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Exhibition Credit : "Kneeboard, c.1956 USA Fibre glass on balsa wood".
Photograph by Bob Gumley.
COMMENTS: Unlikely a 'Kneeboard' - note thickness and hand grip.
REFERENCES
Other Boards
Plywood Paipo #204
Surfworld Museum, Torquay Victoria. : Lamaroo # 26
Leigh Tingle's 1958 Balsawood bellyboard #345
Also see Paipo Catalogue
Books
Margan and Finney photographs pages 152 - 156
CONDITION: 9.5

3204 Plywood belly board, Margan and Finney 1970 page 156

Plywood belly board with hand grip,
Margan and Finney (1970) page 156.

Leigh Tingle reports...
The photo at bottom of page of a bellyboard rider is me.
Taken at Haliewa Oahu January 1964 using an existing balsa fibreglass bellyboard made by Scott Dillon, Noel Ward and Gordon Woods in February 1958.
It is now 43 years old and still going strong.
If I remember correctly the photograph was from the Surfabout magazine.
A replica of the board has just been finished by my son Sam for a school Tutorial Task.
Many thanks, Leigh.