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| Valla Surfboards Nambucca Heads, NSW 1978 Paul Joske  |
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| Valentine Surfboards (Qld)
410 Logan Road, Stones Corner, Brisbane, Qld. Brisbane: 49 3425 The Promontory Road, via Fish Creek, Victoria. Melbourne: 93 5295 1973 Alan Valentine Butterfly contributed by Tony, Hawkesnest, NSW, December 2008 and Snazzy, 2019. For other butterfly decals see Fred Pyke Surfboards and Monarch Surfboards. Fish Creek decal image contributed by Ignatz, South West Rocks, NSW, August 2011. Breakway
July 1974:  Thanks to Snazzy, August, 2019.
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| (Dick) Van Straalen Surfboards
64 Goodwin Terrace, Burleigh Heads, Queensland. 1973 Dick Van Straalen and Peter Evans 1975 Dick Van Straalen, Richard Harvey Also see Surf Design Queensland and Spirit of the Sea Surfboards.    - Shaped for Bob Cooper,
circa 1971Down railer, vee in nose with extreme concave in tail. |
  Circa 1976, Note Stralen
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Burleigh Heads, Queensland. Winged heart decal, circa 2000. Image contributed by Jim Swinton, July 2006. |
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| Vanya Surfboards ? 1969 ? home-made? Noted: 7ft 9" Tracker shape (square tail), with a shallow spoon nose on the deck. Similar to, or copy of, a board ridden by Bob McTavish in Greenough's IMLOIF 18 inch fin Hand painted decal on the bottom and female nude on the deck. Also see Nat Young Surfboards. |
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| Varda Surfboards 1973 ?? Image courtesy of Robyn F., January 2014. |
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| Vel-Aqua Sport
Equipment (Surfboards) circa 1965? Victoria? A water sport manufacturer and supplier of various craft and accessories including water-skis, skim boards, aquaplanes and paddle-boards. Adhesive decal image emailed by George, early 2009. Vel Aqua Australia and Aquaplane decals thanks to Snazzy, February 2019. Also see Eva Braun on an aquaplane, Lake Wolfgangsee, 1938. Noted with thanks by Gary Lynch, February 2019.  . |
 
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| Vic Tantau Surfboards
Tantau Surfboards 1957 Vic Tanau 8 Grandview Grove, Moorabin, Victoria Phone: XL-4259 c 1960 310 Chestfield Road, Moorabin, Victoria Phone: 95-4259 Early balsa boards had tin plate decals.  Advertisement from The Victorian Surfer March 1963 Volume 1 Number 3 Minerva Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 17 Elizabeth Street Melbourne, page 76. Note the spelling of Tantu and Big Wave Boards and Ballooners (?) A balsa board is on loan and displayed by the ANMM from Leonie Tantau, who reported in April 2007: My father Vic Tantau made one of the first balsas in Victoria in the late 50`s in a room out the back of an old kiosk on the Esplanade in Torquay and in a garage in Moorabbin and in a factory in Moorabbin. Just as a matter of interest the balsa board I own has been on display in the Sydney Maritime Museum for quite a few years now. See Notes on ANMM collection |
  Decal thanks to Snazzy, February
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 Moorabbin, 1959. Decal courtesy of snazzy, January 2019.  |
| Village Surfboards
1973 Pacific Highway Charlestown, NSW. Peter Cornish Tracks, May 197  3. 1975 Incredibly detailed French (?) landscape, with wine barrels being loaded at Brassiere - De Maitre Kanter -decal courtesy of Marcus, December 2018. |
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| Vitamin Sea
Surfboards 1985 Queensland? Tad Ciastula |
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Child Surfboards ?, Australia 1986 Mat G. |
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