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the catalogue #193 
1960      Paipo/Belly Board          2 ft 8"
#193
MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Backyard
SHAPER: 
DESIGN: Paipo/Belly Board - Twin fin
DESIGNER: Unknown
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Five ply. Paint. Varnished.  Adhesive stickers.
DIMENSIONS
Length:
2
feet
 8
inches    
Width:
 23 1/2
inches
 
Wide Point, from nose :
-ve 10
inches
Nose :
n/a 
inches
 
Tail:'
 n/a
inches
Thickness:
 1/2
inches
 
Pod:
 20
inches
Weight/
 
inches
 
Volume:
 
inches
Nose/L:
0
inches
 
Tail/L:
 
inches
Concave tail:
 -ve 1 3/4
 inches
       

FEATURES
Nose: semi pin/round
Tail:  Concave
Deck: Flat.
Bottom: flat
Rails: rounded square 
Rocker: miminal/nil nose lift
 
FINS: 
Two,  3 1/2" x 9" base @ 5 inches
 Long base keel fins
1/2 '' thick plywood timber
Probably mitred and glued.
Note unusual placement towards the centre of the board.
 
DECOR
DECALS:
Deck:Three Adhesive stickers. 
Skull and crossbones graphic with text, Speed King. Water soaked, Probably added during manufacture.
Black Foot grahic with  text, Barefoot. Paper/vinyl, probably post production.
Bottom:
MARKINGS
Deck: nil
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: Red racing stripes, right hand side. Note parrallel to rails, not centre.
Bottom: clear/natural
NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Dimensions and photographs Sydney Surf Auction, Mona Vale  Hotel, Sydney, 25 - 26 September 2003 
Catalogue No. 191 : " PAIPO BOARD no name, 3' neat 1960's  plywood single fin, good condition." 
Catalogue Notes by Mick Mock, PO Box 330 Manly NSW Australia 2095. 
 Thanks to Mick Mock. 
COMMENTS:
REFERENCES
Other Boards 
See Paipo # 113 ,
Surfworld Museum, Torquay Victoria. : Lamaroo # 26
See Paipo Catalogue
Books
Margan and Finney  Photographs, pages 152 - 156
CONDITION: 9.5

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Concave tail and Fins detail.
3204 Plywood belly board, Margan and Finney 1970 page 156
Leigh Tingle and Plywood belly board, Haliewa, 1964.
Image contributed by Leigh Tingle.
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 finsihed by my son Sam for a school Tutorial Task.
Many thanks, Leigh.
Printed in Margan and Finney  Page 156
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