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1970 The Shoe by Shane. Spoon decked Knee Board 4 ft 11" | #195 |
Length:
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4
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feet |
11
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inches | ||
Width:
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21
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inches | Wide Point: |
+0
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inches | |
Nose :
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17
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inches | Tail: |
17.5
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inches | |
Thickness:
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x
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inches | Pod: |
0
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inches | |
Nose/L:
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Weight:
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Other
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FIN 10 1/2" x 7 " base @ 3 1/2 inches Cliear laminate, Rear leg rope hole. The fin is mitred into the blank and has rovings. |
DECOR DECALS Deck: Bottom: 'The Shoe' script, and 'Shane' kidney logo on nose, both black MARKINGS Deck: Bottom: COLOUR Deck: green marbling (paint on foam?) Bottom: clear, with green marbling rail overlap, black resin pinlines. |
The design was
given exposure in the surf media as was George Greenough's
surfing and surf photography.
Many
manufacturers made copies of the design and the intensive
glassing requirements required a premium price.
The most
recognised models were produced by at Hayden Surfboards
Caloundra Queensland, featuring Greenough's dramatic Fighter
Plane decal, see below.
The design peaked in popularity around 1970 with the release of George Greenough's The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun - featuring some his surfing on Spoon and inflatable mat (see #66) but most famously included on-board footage of radical performance surfing and serious tube rides.
In 1970 Shane Surfboards released a Greenough influenced solid spooned deck kneeboard, known as The Shoe.
Because the high performance capabilities of the design were only achievable in quality waves and the low floatation meant that only the most fit riders were able to catch waves, by 1973 the design was largely supplanted by Peter Crawford's Slab design, circa 1969, see # 83.
Initially
Peter Crawford simply filled in the spooned deck to greatly
increase floatation and expand the wave range, but over a long
life the Slab was adapted with a range of rail shapes and fin
configurations, see # 58.
In the USA the
Fish was a notable alternative in kneeboard design.
Greenough's
extreme design was attempted to be recreated in stand up
boards, most infamously by Nat Young at Gordon Woods
Surfboards in 1965, see The
Nautilas.
Although this
board was a failure, George Greenough's fin design was to have
a huge impact on Australian surfboards and by 1968 almost
every fin bore some relationship to Greenough's high aspect
template.
Popular
Science magazine
"Far Out
Flexible Surfboard... the wave of the future" by Eric
Blum as told to Al Lees
August 1969
pages 92 to 95.
The
Australian Surfer's Journal
''Moving
Forward - A Greenough Scrapbook 1960 - 1970''
Vol.2
No.2 1999 Pages 76-77, 84, 86-87
Film:
1. The
Innermost Limits of Pure Fun
George Greenough 1970
2.Crystal
Voyager David
Elfick 1973
CONDITION:
Deck Bottom Shoe by Newport
Paipo, California, 1973.
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Full concave deck
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Another Shane:
The Shoe decal
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George Greenough and Spoon Photo by Caloundra, Queensland 1966 |
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"Far
Out Flexible Surfboard... the wave of the future" by Eric Blum as told to Al Lees Popular Science magazine August 1969, page 92. ' |
George
Greenough: North coast freefall 1965
Photograph by Tanya Binning First published Surfing World Vol No 196 This cropped version from Margan and Finney , page 310 The most outstanding photograph of committed high performance surfing up to this date, this level of performance was probably not achieved by stand up surfers for another ten years. |
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