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the catalogue : #208

1975 Morning Star 6ft 10". Spray art

#208

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Morning Star Surfboards 95 Darely Street Mona Vale Sydney. Phone 99 1780
SHAPER: Unknown
DESIGN: Swallow tail
DESIGNER: Ben Apia

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank,
1/8'' redwood stringer,
volan laminate on bottom with rail lap onto deck, S glass deck laminate, resin pinlines, spray art. Post production leg rope plug.
DIMENSIONS

*Length :*	6	feet	10	inches
*Width :*	19	inches		*Wide Point :*	+ 3	inches
*Nose :*	12 1/2	inches		*Tail :*	12	inches
*Thickness :*	2 7/8	inches		*Pod :*	4 1/4	inches
*Nose/L:*	4	inches		*Tail/L :*	1	inch
*Weight :*		kilograms		*Volume:*		litres
*Swallow:*	-ve 2	inches

FEATURES:
Nose: pin
Tail: swallow
Deck: flat
Bottom: flat - slight concave - flat - slight vee behind fin.
Rails: round down,
Rocker: medium

FIN
7 1/2inch x 6 inch base, 8 inch span @ 4 1/2 inches ,
wide base orange laminate
.

DECOR
DECAL
Deck: Red 'Morning Star' at s spot.L
MARKINGS
Deck: 1316 D / 6'10'' pencil above/below stringer at tail
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: Clear with light blue resin pinlines, Wave and Sun spray art at s. spot under decal.Image right
Bottom: Foil shaped Wave and sun and three birds spray art bordered by black resin pinline, red spray foil pinline.

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Purchased new 1975 Bondi Surf Shop, post production plug added.
Purchased Rose Valley NSW January 2001 from original owner, board with original home made canvas board cover.
Offered for sale at Mick Mock's Sydney Surf Auction, Mona Vale, October 2004.
Catalogue # ??
DESIGN HISTORY
A sponsored surfer/shaper for Keyo Surfboards, McCoy Surfboards and then Terry Fitzgerald's Hot Buttered Surfboards 1972-3, Col Smith (North Narrabeen) begun Morning Star Surfboards in 1975.
Like fellow North Narrabeen surfers, Terry Fitzgerald and Simon Anderson (Energy Surfboards), he quickly became an estalished manufacturer.
Early output included models for Mark Richards and glassing Nat Young Surf Design shapes, June 1976. Shaper Paul Holmes was also added at this time, replaced by Ron Ford by the summer of 1977-1978.
In late 1979 Morning Star Surfboards produced the first Tom Carroll model.
Long time glasser Wayne Warner, with son Brett, revived the label in 1996 at 236 Harbord Road, Brookvale NSW, 9938 5316.
REFERENCES:
Other Morning Star Surfboards :
Magazines

CONDITION: 9

Image, right
Cropped from Morning Star Advertisment, 1975
From Left : Brett Warner, Col Smith, Wayne Warner