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Surfboard Ads : Australian Outdoors, 1960.

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Surfboard Advertisements : Vel-Aqua Surfboard Kits and Milner Balsa Supplies.
Australian Outdoors
January, 1960, pages 63 to 67.

Introduction.
A photocopy of this article contributed by Mick Kershler, Anna Bay, October 2008, with many thanks.

Page 63

A simple hollow board design replicating the basic design of the Okinuee, but significantly without a fin.
The apparent lack of mutiple logitudinal battens (stringers) probably lightened the board but substantially reduced its strength.
Expert builders used a rounded shaped rail, vastly supoerior to these square rails.

Page 67

Balsa supplier Arthur Milner and Co. supplied much of the balsa wood used by Sydney's boardmakers.
Altough not a manufacturer themselves, the company backloaded finished boards from Sydney to be retailed to Victorian boardriders.

Surfboard Advertisements : Vel-Aqua Surfboard Kits and Milner Balsa Supplies.
Australian Outdoors
January, 1960, pages 63 and 67.

This article contributed by Mick Kershler, with many thanks, October 2008.

Geoff Cater (2008) : Surfboard Ads : Australian Outdoors, 1960.
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