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1970 Farrelly Twin Fin 5 ft 2"

#266

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Farrelly Surfboards, 230 Harbord Road Brookvale Sydney
SHAPER: Unknown (possibly Warren Cornish (see below)
DESIGN: Twin Fin 1
DESIGNERS: Mike Eaton / Rolf Arness / Corky Carroll / David Nuuihwa, all USA

SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank with 1/8 inch plywood stringer, green tint Volan laminate with black pin-lines; 1/2 inch rail lap on the bottom, 1 inch rail lap on the deck.
Post production leg-rope plug.
Foil deck to tail patch.
DIMENSIONS

*Length :*	5	ft	2	inches	L2: 5ft 1.5"
*Width :*	20	inches		*Wide Point :*	+ve 4	inches
*Nose :*	15	inches		*Tail :*	16.5	inches
*Thickness :*	3	inches		*Pod :*	11	inches
*Nose Lift :*		inches		*Tail Lift :*		inches
*Weight :*		kilos		*Volume :*		litres
*Round tail :*	7	inches	x +ve 1 .5	inch

FEATURES
Nose: Pin
Tail: wide round
Deck: S-deck, domed
Bottom: flat,
Rails: Down rail with hard edge from tail to sweet spot, 50-50 round to the nose.
Rocker: Two phase - nose lift to sweet spot, then flat to the tail.

FINS
Foiled with two colour laminate, white with black core.
6 inch x 4 inch base @ 4 inches.
Typical for the period, the fins are foiled on both sides.
Right hand fin has a leg rope hole
The base of both fins have been heavily reinforced, possibly re-set.
Hence, although the fins are now toed in to nose, and tipped-out towards the rails, this may not have been the original setting.
Note the white patches under the fins suggesting the fins tore out portions of the green laminate tint.

DECOR
DECALS
Deck
Farrelly/address - numbered 585, black script at sweet spot.
Black pin-lines
Bottom: Black pin-lines
1980s stickers - Rip Curl in the centre and multiple skulls on the nose.
MARKINGS
Deck:
Bottom:
COLOUR
Deck: Green tint laminate, with foil deck to tail patch.
Bottom: Green tint laminate

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Kindly donated by Alan and Linda, Shoalhaven Heads, NSW, February 2022.
The board was purchased from a charity shop by Linda's brother, Paul, in the early 1980s for his young son.
The black repairs to the deck were probably done around 1974, around the time the hole was drilled in the right-hand fin to attach a leg-rope.
The extensive glass/resin repairs to the nose and tail, along with re-setting both fins and the leg-rope plug, were likely completed in the late 1970s.
DESIGN HISTORY
The US design (Corky Carroll, Mike Eaton , Rolf Aurness and David Nuuhiwa) was directly imported by Tom Hoyle to Bennett Surfboards, Brookvale in late 1970.
Concurrently, Terry Fitzgerald and Greg Hodges "built two five-sixes" from design details culled from negotiations between Shane Surfboards and Corky Carroll, post Johanna World Contest, 1970 (M.3).
The design quickly dominated 50% of the Sydney market, notably McCoy Surfboards.
Usually sub 6 ft x 20" with 10" diamond pod. Glue line stringer.
Fin size, shape and placement varied.
MANUFACTURER HISTORY
At a cost of $125.00, it was a premium product trading on Midget Farrelly's designs and an immaculate finish that set the benchmark for the rest of the industry.
REFERENCES
Other Twin fin I's :
# 106 Pat Morgan
# 71 Walsh 5 ft 4"
#161 Hansen 6 ft 1''
#134 Farrelly 6ft 1"

Twin fin II's :
# 40

Other Farrelly Boards
#46 1969 Farrelly, Square tail 6 ft 4"
#214 1970 Farrelly Diamond Tail 6 ft 3''
#54 1971 Farrelly Pop-out 5ft 5"
#134 1970 Farrelly Twin fin 6ft 1"
#34 1972 Midget Farrelly, Coolite 4 ft 10" Rubber fin

Books:
1. Nat's History 0f Surfing page 106.
Magazines.
Articles:
1. Tracks Number 2 Summer 1970?
Twin fin articles featuring Tom Hoye at Bennett Surfboards and Terry Fitgerald at Shane Surfboards. Photographs from these articles reproduced in Nat Young's History of Surfing, page 106. See 1 above. Inexplicably these articles did not appear in The Best of Tracks (Volume 1) design section.
2. Mick Mock : "The Summer Millionaire (Shane Steadman)"
in Deep Vol 4 #4 Winter 1999 pages 50 - 61
- includes photographs
3. Phil Jarrett : "The Sultan of Speed" (Retrospective 1960 - 1999)
in The Australian Surfers Journal Vol 1 # 2 Autumn 1999 page 28 - 45.
Twin fin I page 42
4. Surfing World Vol 14 # 6
- cover shot of Terry Fitzgerald (Shane Surfboards), Mark Warren (McCoy Surfboards) and tails/fins.
Film:
1. John Severson : Pacific Vibrations USA 1971
- footage of Corky Carroll, Twin fin I/Hobie Surfboards
2. Bob Evans : Family Free 1971
- Col Smith and Mark Warren ride Twin fin I/McCoy Surfboards

CONDITION: 4

Board # 5
Receipt No. 22
28 November 1969

Warren Cornish at Farrelly Surfboards,
230 Harbord Road Brookvale Sydney
circa June 1970
Photograph from
Pacific Longboarder
Vol 6 No. 3 page 39
January 2003

Note similarities in template to #214.

Geoff Cater (2022) : Farrelly Twin Fin, 5ft 2", 1970

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