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1973 Pat Morgan Swallow tail 6ft 10'' Kym Thompson

#163

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Pat Morgan Surfboards,17 Anderson St Torquay Victoria Phone: Torquay 720
SHAPER: Kym Thompson
DESIGN: Swallow tail
DESIGNER: Ben Apia

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank, 1/8'' redwood stringer?, two colour tinted Volan laminate? red resin pin lines.
DIMENSIONS
Length: 6 ft 10"     Width:   18 1/2"       Wide Point:    +ve 8''
Nose :      13 1/2"      Tail    11 3/4"    Pod:   8" ?   Thickness:   2 3/4 ''
(Swallow: ?Other,    Nose/L:       Tail/L: Weight/Volume:)
FEATURES
Nose: pin
Tail:   swallow, chamfered?
Deck:   S deck, flat section from sweet spot to tail with chine above the rail line. ?
Bottom:
Rails:
Rocker:

FIN: Single Red/yellow multi laminated fin, approx 7'' x 6'' base @ 6''.?

DECOR
DECALS
Deck: Man, sun and seashell graphic - crude, possibly cut from a magazine. Image right.
Bottom: Three circles graphic, 'Pat Morgan Surfboards,17 Anderson St Torquay. Phone: Torquay 617' black text, image right.
MARKINGS
Deck:
Bottom: Designed and shaped by Kym Thompson and Water Cooled Surfboards with Peace and wave graphics, black pencil/pen left and right of stringer, on nose. Image below.
COLOUR
Deck: Yellow tint laminate with orange rail lap. Red resin pin-line nose foil
Bottom: orange tint laminate with tail/fin patch

BOARD HISTORY
Submitted by Dustin.
Sorry, Dustin - all your details went in latest email crash. Please contact again when possible.
I found a board in a pawn shop, and Wayne Cleggett from 701 helped me piece together it's likely history (he reckons it's from 1972 - 1974). It's a 6''9' swallow tail single fin with a yellow deck and orange bottom, the glass job has the colours mixed into the glass, and the defining lines between colours are raised, indicating they used a separate resin? it's been a little abused in it's life, with plenty of stress cracks and a few solid dings which appear to have been repaired fairly well, the original fin has never been ripped out and has a hole drilled in it for the leggy, it has exactly the same "Pat Morgan" decal described on the twin fin in your website, but then has significant hand written / decaled info on the deckside/underside of the nose. It has the 3 circles and "Watercooled Surfboards" and then a trippy logo of a man coming out of a cyclone, and the words "handshaped by Kym Thompson" in handwriting. Wayne says Kym is now shaping somewhere in Thailand/Philippines and can't be contacted. - Dustin
COMMENTS
The earliest reference for Pat Morgan Surfboards I have is 1969.
The earliest reference I can find for Kym Thompson is at Klem-Bell Surfboards Torquay 1976
The earliest reference I can find for Kym Thompson/Water Cooled Surfboards Torquay is 1977
Kym continued at Water Cooled Surfboards well into the 1980's , and manufactured a lot of sailboards in the period. No idea where he is now.
REFERENCES:
OTHER PAT MORGAN SURFBOARDS
#106 1971 Pat Morgan Twin fin #1 6 ft 7''
#336 1971 Pat Morgan Keel fin 7ft 8 1/2''
#242 1972 Pat Morgan Keel fin 6ft 8''

CONDITION: 8, black tape -1.