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the catalogue #304

1969 Hayden 7 ft 5 '' Robert Conneeley Roundtail

#304

MANUFACTURE
MANUFACTURER: Hayden Surfboards, 164 Alexandra Parade, Alexandra Headland, Queensland
SHAPER: Robert Conneeley
DESIGN: Roundtail
DESIGNER: Robert Conneeley
SPECIFICATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Foam blank, high density blue foam stringer with dark blue gluelines,
Volan glassed with 1 1/2 inch rail lap, three quarter deck patch.

DIMENSIONS

*Length:*	7	feet	5 1/4	inches	*L2 :* 7 ft 4 3/4''
*Width:*	21	inches	*Wide Point:*	+ 5 1/2	inches
*Nose :*	16	inches	*Tail:*	12 1/2	inches
*Thickness:*	3	inches	*Pod:*	0	inches
*Weight:*		kilos	*Volume:*		litres
*Nose/L*		inches	*Tail/L:*		inches
*Stringer:*	5/16	inches

FEATURES
Nose: Rounded pin
Tail: Round.
Deck: Rolled
Bottom: Rounded hull - deepest at wide point, Flat behind fin.
Rails: 50/50 pinched - high at the nose and low at tail
Rocker: gentle with slight nose lift

FIN
9 1/4'' x 8 1/2'' base x 11'' span @ 10''
laminated fibreglass,

See image left.
For fin placement, see image below.

DECOR
DECALS
Deck
Hayden / Queensland
- black text and orange dot on white at rear sweet spot. Image right
A Robert Conneeley Expression
- blue/black shadowed rectangle below main decal.
Image below.
Bottom
MARKINGS
Deck:
Bottom: 3237- pencil on blank forward of fin
COLOUR
Deck: Clear
Bottom : Clear

NOTES
BOARD HISTORY
Purchased/Obtained ?
Board submitted, with thanks, by Bob Munroe, Gerroa, NSW.
Dimensions and photographs 22 August 2004
Deck has four onion fractures, and some small dings, some staining.
A large delamination near the Conneeley decal has been filled with injected resin through 5 drill holes.
Two holes are apparent in the decal image, below.
Bottom has several minor dings and a chip out of the tail.


*A Robert Conneeley Expression* Blue/dark blue circle with wave graphic and text	Fin dimensions and placement 9 1/4'' x 8 1/2'' base x 11'' span @ 10''

MANUFACTURER HISTORY
See Hayden Surfboards

SHAPER HISTORY
Tracks magazine circa 1970

1966
Robert Conneely sponsored to San Diego World Titles by Hayden Surfboards.
Robert Conneely's Shapeship Model.

1969
Robert Conneeley Expression Model,

1970 Robert Conneeley Expression Model.
see left.

DESIGN HISTORY
Following the failure of the wide-tailed Vee bottom experiment in Hawaii December1967 plan shapes became the focus of design
In early 1968 some designs merely added a pintail - the Pintail Vee bottom - see #107
This was quickly abandoned, and as the year progressed plan shapes literally reversed to a fully foiled gun derived template.
Wide points moved dramatically forward (up to +ve 12'') and tails narrowed, with three main variations.
Bottom features, particually Vee, were much less extreme but 50/50 rails were retained
Many boards were stringerless, but the newly introduced coloured resin glue-line stringer was also widely used.
Volan fibreglass was an industry standard and the boards usually have identifiable laminated rail overlaps, often with deck and/or fin patches.
Fins usually were large Greenough-influenced flex fins, with advanced placement towards the nose.
The first commercially available finboxes were introduced in 1968 - WAVESET (by Morey-Pope) and SAFESET (by Fins Unlimited) - from the USA.
These were fitted with a selection of molded plastic fins.
See Pintail #96 Roundtail #171 and Tracker #108
The three models were illustrated in Surfing World Volume 12 No. 1 1969.

Surfing World
Volume 12 No. 1 1969.

COMMENTS
A classic design .of the period from a noted surfer shaper.
REFERENCES
Magazines
Surfing World Volume 12 No. 1 1969. See above.
Hayden Surfboards Ad, Tracks magazine circa 1970
CONDITION: 8