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#326
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1970 Wilderness Diamond tail Hull. Shaped by Chris Brock 6 ft 8'' | #326 |
Length :
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6
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ft |
8
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inches | ||
Width :
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21.5
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inches |
Wide Point :
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+3
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inches* | |
Nose :
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|
inches |
Tail :
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15
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inches | |
Thickness :
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+3
|
inches |
Pod :
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9.5
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inches | |
Nose Lift :
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inches |
Tail Lift :
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inches | |||
Weight :
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kilos |
Volume :
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litres | |||
Other, Flyer/s :
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inches |
FIN
Laminated and foiled black fibreglass Greenough fin. Foiled fin patch. 10'' x 9'' base x 11'' span @ 7'' ? See images right and below. |
DECOR
DECALS Deck Wilderness Surfboards George Greenough Design Palmers Channel. Black text and graphic at sweet spot. Some details appear to be hand drawn. Bottom MARKINGS Deck C. B. Pencil on tail, image right. Bottom: COLOUR Deck Clear with volan rail lap, possible deck patch. Bottom Clear with volan rail lap and fin patch. |
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Length:6'8"
Width: 21.5"
Thickness:
3"+ in middle, but close to rails gets quite thin.
Nose: 13.5"
Tail: 15"
Pod: 9.5"
Fin: 10"(H)
x 9" (L)
Unfortunately
it's
got really bad delam on the deck as you can see in the
pics, a few
people advised fixing it, but I like to keep all my boards
original.
Chris Brock and Wilderness Surfboard, Lennox Head, circa 1969. Photographs by Alby Falzon.
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Surfing
World
Volume 15 Number 5, 1971. |
On the North
coast of NSW, Greenough proteges Bob McTavish, Garry Keyes and
Chris Brock produced wide tailed fin drivers at Wilderness
Surfboards, first at Byron Bay and later adjacent to
Angourie.
See Surfing
World, Volume 12, Number 5, 1969.
Bob McTavish. Wilderness factory, Angourie, 1969. Surfing World Magazine, Volume 12, Number 5,1969. |
Robert Conneeley and his Expression Model Hayden Surfboards advertisement circa 1970. Photograph: Unaccredited. Tracks magazine circa 1970. |
McTavish
recalled the Hull in the second of his 1973 design
retrospectives for Tracks Magazine, Pods for
Primates Part 2:
"(circa
1969) Meanwhile in Australia we were going the opposite
direction, the boards were getting short, the rails softer
and softer, this is when the Greenough hulls took on with
very high rails in the front turning down at the tail.
This is
when Ted Spencer was making white kites (White Kites) at Shanes (Shane Surfboards) with a
soft rail
all the way thru.
David
Treloar was making soft rail foils at Nippers (Nipper
Williams Surfboards).
These
boards you could really bank them over on the rail but
when you got them over they did nothing."
MANUFACTURER
HISTORY Originally the Wilderness name was used in Santa Barbara, California, USA (image right) and subsequently imported via George Greenough and Chis Brock to northern NSW. |
REFERENCES
Books
Falzon: Morning of the
Earth (2003), pages 44 to 47.
Magazines
Surfing
World Magazine, Volume 12, Number 5, 1969.
Bob
McTavish : Streaks and Slugs
Surfer
Tips : Number Forty Five SurferMagazine Volume 11 Number 2
May 1970, pages 27 and 29.
Film
George
Greenough: Innermost Limits of Pure Fun (1971)
Alby Falzon: The
Morning
of the Earth (1972)
COMMENTS
The nose image, below, attempts to show the deeply bowled forward rail, charateristic of Greenough/Brock designs of the period. |
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