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Face Surfboards Port Kembla 1968 - 1975 Paul Brooks Paul was a Wind’nSea member and a rider for Gordon & Smith Surfboards. He made about 450 boards in Port Kembla, circa 1968/1970. Images and decal thanks to  Bob Parkes, October 2017. Paul Brooks: Port Kembla Reef, 1968 (photo Graham Goold)

(The) Factory Surfboards Caloundra 1992 Paul Carson (ex-Freefluid Surfboards) Mick Grace. Decals and entry details courtesy of Gary O'Donnell, long time Caloundra surfer, March 2018.

Faith Surfboards circa 1975 Queensland. Trevor Payne 1983 Ken Freeland

Fall Line Surfboards Nat Young's Fall Line Surfboards circa 1985 Mona Vale Rob Allen See Nat Young Surfboards Noted: Mini-Mal design shaped by Mick Dooley. Also noted, an anonymous report that the Fall Line boards were shaped by Phil Murry, (sic Murray?).

Fanatic Surfboards 1999 ?? The Boarder's Company

Fantasea Surfboards 1977 ?? Noted: Fantasea  single fin  6ft10" x 20.5" x 3" (Slight) flyers, swallow-tail, channel bottom (?), r/h leg-rope plug Deck and bottom: Twin spray blue stripes, deck decal de-laminated. Fantasea was a 1977 film by Greg Huglin.

Farfor Paipo Boards 1963 PO Box Portsea Vic Jamie Farfor See #193 In the late 1960s, Farfor also produced a line of Skid Boards. Decal image thanks to Ant, April 2019.

Farm Surfboards Phone: 449-4013 1971 W. Hutchinson Shaped and glassed by W. Hutchinson for Farm, 449-4013. Possibly influenced by Greenough's IMLOPF (1970), All Original Music by Farm.

Farrelly Surfboards circa1965 Palm Beach Sydney 1969 March/April?  Surfing World Vol 11 No 4 Page 38 Ad : Palm Beach Post Office NSW 2108 - Pintail, also Tracker models.   circa1969 Harbord Road Brookvale Sydney Warren Cornish 1972 Mona Vale, Sydney 1977  West Street Brookvale Sydney Click the image to access the full entry for Farrelly Surfboards.

Ferris Surfboards 136 Taren Point Road, Carringbah 52 Wonga Road, Miranda Phone: LB 8480 1961 In the first edition of Australian Surfer magazine, an advertisement for the Ferris Factory in Caringbah, Sydney announced that one could ‘look like a rider’ in Ferris Bermuda Shorts; ‘feel like a rider’ in a Ferris Rubber Suit and ‘be a rider’ on a new 1962 Ferris Surfboard: Balsa or Poly. - Paul Scott: Australian Surfing Magazines: The First Wave (1961-1962). In the second edition of Australian Surfer, the Ferris advertisement offered a choice between New Non-expanding Poly Boards or Pith and Knot Free "A" Grade Balsa.

Fineline Surfboards ? 1986 Aqua Tech Glassing

Fire Balls Surfboards Gold Coast? 1986 Thomas J. Peterson

Five Islands Surfboards Port Kembla 1984 John Lockey Details and decal thanks to  Bob Parkes, October 2017.

Flashpoint Surfing Flashpoint Kneeboards Sydney (02) 9971-7578 1996 Denis (The Menace) Hart

Flash Splash Surfboards Crystals Surf Shop, Rockingham, W.A. (095) 28-1770 1977

Fluid Foils 1976 Jim Pollard's Design label for Shane Surfboards, circa 1976 Brookvale Paul Peters 1982 Tony McDonagh See Shane Surfboards.

Fluid Motion Surfboards Cronulla 1982 Ken Godfrey

Flying High Surfboards Forster-Tuncurry, NSW. 1982 Rodney Rose Decals thanks to Andre Domingues , February 2020.

FM Surfboards 1982 Torquay, Victoria. Freddy Mac 1988 Fastback Total Performance Surfboards Decals contributed by snazzy, April 2015.

Force 9 Surfboards circa 1978 Taren Point Road, Carringbah. Wayne Roach. Robert Liddell.  Brian McKay Peter Smith - Inner Release Surfboards ,1978-1982 1980 Michael Jackson The X Designs by Barry Carr Noted: 6ft 1" Twin-fin 1984 Terry Bishop Wayne Roach: Gary Green Model, Robert Liddell: Get The Buzz 1988 SAM- Shapers Against Machines Perfect Profiles by Smith and Lucas and Tour-de-Force Wayne Roach: Roach Approach,  1990 The X Designs by Barry Carr 1997 Dean Fraser Peter Woods

1989 decal thanks to Snazzy, January 2019.

Ford Surfboards 1968 ??

Fox Surfboards Angourie 1988 Albert Fox

Formation Surfboards Narrabeen 1986

Frank Latta Surfboards ? 1979 ... 1995

Fred Pyke Surfboards  For detailed entry see Pyke Surfboards) 1961 107 Reynard Street, Coburg, Melbourne (Backyard: first board the Bulldog Board) 1963 Custom Built Surfboards 578 Sydney Road Brunswick 386571 1967 Boston Road Torquay Victoria. Decals contributed by Snazzy, October 2011 and January 2019.

Fred Williams Water Skis 1960s Australia Timber water-skis and aquaplanes

Free Flight Surfboards Ballina NSW circa 1974 Decal top, contributed by Tony, Hawkesnest, NSW, December 2008. 1978  Phil Myers, Gunter Rohn Tony Cerff Martin Littlewood Col Smith (Newcastle) Channel Design, see #64. 1986 Hydro-Channel by Phil Myers.

Free Fluid Surfboards 1973 Caloundra, Queensland By the Reid Brothers: Stephen and Wayne "Grub" Reid. The decal was drawn by Lawrie Jarman. Also Kingsley "Knackers" Kernouski, Ronnie Howarth, Greg Minert, Gill Glover, Michael Peterson, Mick Grace. 1977 Owners: Paul and Darryl Carson, 7-7-1977. Mick Grace 1984 Wayne Reid 2000 Paul Carson and Scott ... Steve Jory Shotgun Glassing- Mike St John Caloundra decal contributed by snazzy, April 2015. Decals and entry updated courtesy of Gary O'Donnell, long time Caloundra surfer, March 2018.   1976, decals thanks to Snazzy, June 2019.

Decal thanks to Snazzy, December 2019.

Freeform Surfboards 1970-1972 Avalon 404 Pittwater Road Brookvale 93-7135 -Tracks, November 1970, page 28. John Haymes and Rod Sumpter. 1972 John Haymes Tim Rodgers

Tracks, December 1970, Number 3, page 10.

Freeform Design Surfboards ? 1974? Design by M. Blackburn - Shaped G. Blackburn - Glassed by S. Blackburn Hand drawn decal thanks to Snazzy, February 2019.

Free Form Surfboards ? 1976? ? Decal thanks to Snazzy, February 2019.

Free Glide Surfboards Tuggerah, Central Coast, NSW. 1979 John Harris Peter Lawrence 1977

1977 1982

1979

Freeline Surfboards Forster, NSW 1988 Neil Wheeler 1989 Nev Hines

1988 1989

1988 1989

Free Spirit Surfboards Victoria? 1977 ? Red decal thanks to Snazzy, December 2019.

Rob Saunders reports December 2003, with thanks,...
"Freeform surfboards – Made by David Haymes (at least I think his first name was David) at Avalon in the early seventies.
His  business did not last and I bought his decals and other board manufacturing equipment."
See Reef Surfboards

John Haymes reported (edited) in March 2011, with thanks:
"My name is John not David.
Freeform Surfboards began in 1970 and lasted for 2 years when I decided to return to Avalon and the back yard.
It started out as a partnership with Rodney "Gopher" Sumpter and myself.
A year later Rod returned to Cornwall, England where he still resides today.
After returning to Avalon the business thrived on a local market.
However I did get quite a lot of orders from Sydney's Western Suburbs, in particular Pymble and an agent who was a boarder at Knox Grammar.
For every 10 boards he sold he got a new board - I owed him 3 boards at one stage.
Timmy Rogers (later to start Swift Sticks) came to work with me for a couple of years, one of my sponsored surfers was the late Kim "Fly" Bradley.
A few years later I got a real job for a while, the call of the surfboard got to me and I decided to start again under the name of Toy Gun Surfboards.
This time I had a new partner Paul Holmes (editor of Tracks and Surfer magazines and biographer for Dale "Hawk" Velzy).
Paul and I continued for a few more years, then Greg Clough came to shape with me.
I remember Greg turning up early one morning to shape and also tell me he was about to embark in his own business.
I asked him what he was going to call it, the reply 'Aloha Surfboards'.
I wished him luck and advised him that I did not think the name would work.
God, I got that wrong."

Freestyle Surfboards ?? 1977 ? Sam

Fresh Juice Surfboards circa 1972 31 Lefroy Street North Hobart, Tasmania. Terry Horton Sandy Shaw contributed, May 2006: Fresh Juice Surfboards ... I am a 52 year old surfing around Swansea,Tasmania for the last 30 years. I bought a 7’2” diamond tail 'narra gutted' (?) board from the manufacturer at  North Hobart in 1972, which I later used on a trip around  Australia.  Decal was an orange slice. 1975, decal thanks to Snazzy, June 2019.

Decal image courtesy Rob Bourke, September 2010, with thanks.

Freezing Hot Surfboards 1988 Taranaki, New Zealand

Friar Tuck Surf Designs Kneeboards/Surfboards Brookvale NSW 1977 John Ware and Nick Daly 1979 Peter and John Ware and Craig McDonald ; 1982 Byron Bay NSW, Phone 066 587350 David Parkes, Dale Ponsford  1988 Ulladulla, NSW Albert Whiteman Flash Glassing  Decals  courtesy Mick Mock, Catalogue No. 4, Sydney Surf Auction,  Mona Vale  Hotel, Sydney, 30 October 2005    Sticker: Friar Tuck Twin Fin in boxes.

1976  1978 1979 1987

Fudge Surfboards Maroubra, Sydney ? 1967 Richard Futcher, said to have shaped Terry Fitzgerald's first board. Decal and info thanks to Snazzy, August 2021.

Full Circle Surfboards Phillip Island, Victoria. 1984 Russell Francis and Shaena Tantau

Full Flight Surfboards Tilba Tilba, NSW 1982 Peter Collins Bob Harris (glasser) Both ex-Peter Clarke Surfboards. Decal image forwarded by gerry.z, November 2013.

Full Force Surfboards Art and Glassing 5/41 Macninery Drive South Tweed 1980 Dennis Watts Shape by M. Stra, 1980.

Full Moon Longboards - Surfboards ? 1998 - Spring

Full Zone Surfboards Machinery Drive, Tweed Heads 1987 Noted: Creative Fin Systems:Thruster with trailing slot fin, 1987.

Future Shock Surfboards Central Coast, NSW ? 1986 Markings noted: 6'2'' x ?     D. or P.  Peters   May '87

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