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the catalogue #230

1970 Rip Curl Pintail 6 ft 3 1/2"

#230

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Rip Curl Surfboards, 5 Boston Road, Torquay Victoria, Phone 612 252.
SHAPER: Mick Nelson.*
DESIGN: Pin tail
DESIGNER:
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank with black glueline stringer, tint and pigment volan laminate with 1 1/2 inch rail lap.
Inverted scalloped deck to tail patch. Fin patch (post-production).

DIMENSIONS

*Length :*	6	ft	4	inches	*L2:* 6ft	3 1/2''
*Width :*	19	inches		*Wide Point :*	+ve 3	inches
*Nose :*	12 1/2	inches		*Tail :*	12 1/2	inches
*Thickness :*	3	inches		*Pod :*		inches
*Nose Lift :*		inches		*Tail Lift :*		inches
*Weight :*		kilos		*Volume :*		litres
*Other :*		inches

FEATURES
Nose: Pin
Tail: Pin
Deck: S-deck, domed
Bottom: flat,
Rails: Down rail with hard edge, nose to tail
Rocker: Two phase - Marked nose lift to wide point, then flat to tail

FIN
8 1/2 inch x 5 inch base x 9''span @ 5 inches.
Three colour laminate with post-production fin patch.
Leg rope hole.
the fin patch is a crude post-production repair.

DECOR
DECALS
Deck
Rip Curl/address - black script and text at sweet spot.
See right
Bottom: Rip Curl/address - in decorated box at sweet spot, see below.
MARKINGS
Deck: 591 M.N. at tail.
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: Red laminated tint with inverted scalloped deck to tail patch.
Bottom: Mauve pigment laminate (?) with red tint rail overlap.
Wide blue resin pinlines.

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Board donated by Graham Phillips, Shoalhaven Heads, NSW, September 2007.
Graham reports he purchased the board from stock at a surf shop located at Tom Uglys Bridge, Sylvania, NSW in the summer of 1970-1971.
Many thanks to Graham.

*In November 2007 I emailed Jeff Arkinstall at Surfworld, Torquay, enquiring if they had any record of a shaper "M.N." at Rip Curl Surfboards in the early 1970s.
Jeff passed the enquiry on to Bob Smith , who noted:
"RipCurl board with MN was shaped by Mick Nelson who worked down here at RipCurl in the early 70s."
Thanks to Jeff and Bob for thier assistance.

MANUFACTURER HISTORY
See Manufacturers Index: Rip Curl Surfboards

DESIGN HISTORY
The continious down hard rails are a common development in Australia after the American and Hawaiian influence post the 1970 World Contest in Victoria.

REFERENCES

BOOKS
Hynd, Derek; Jarrat, Phil and Carroll, Nick :
1994 Rip Curl 25 Anniversary
Rip Curl, 101 Geelong Road, Torquay, Vic. Australia 3228
Soft cover, 96 pages, extensive colour photographs,27 b/w photographs.
Magazines:
CONDITION: 6.5

Image right:
Rip Curl decal, damaged and repaired.