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Introduction
Photographs for the upcoming Crystal Voyager in consecutive editions, featuring George Greenough, Nat Young, Ritchie West.

Number 37 also includes the classic photograph of Midget Farrelly's employee at Surfblanks, Michelangelo with mallet and chisel.
And a brief paragraph in praise of swallow-tails by Bob McTavish and an article in support of leg-ropes by Dick Hoole.

Number 37

Page 11

Nat Young

Page 15

Nat Young

Pages 16-17

Nat Young

Pages 16-17

Nat Young x 4

Number 38
Page 16 Page 17

George Greenough

Page 22

George Greenough

EXTRAS
Number 37 Page 2

Surfblanks:
Michelangelo with mallet and chisel.

Chris Crozier Surfboards.

Waxmate Surf wax.

Page 31

Five Summer Stories

Page 24 Page 25

Design

Swallow-tails - four ways better
You get extra planing area under you, a straighter outline, reduced area behind you, which deliver, in order, greater speed in flat water, longer reach in your turn (but tighter turns if you want them) greater holding power and stalling power (like a pintail).
That's three.
The fourth is unique.
Rail to rail transfer, especially off the lip, is greatly improved.
The tail never "binds", it slides right back in there so smoothly.
Or you can hold it up in the lip so late, then release it whenever you want and come back in.
You haven't felt it until you've ridden one.
- Bob McTavish.

More on Swallow Tails next month.

Also designs by
Dennis McPherson, Palmers Island near Yamba
Colin Wall, Ocean Beach, NSW Central Coast
Rodney Dalberg's swallow-tail.

Dick Hoole: Leg Ropes

Raoul Duke, Huntington
Leashed but not tied,
Photo by Brad Dawber

Number 38 Page 2

Tracks
Number 37
October 1973.

Tracks
Number 38
November 1973.

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