NEALE TAYLOR TUNNEL FIN

 This board is a Neale Taylor tunnel fin.

Neale Taylor ran

Taylor's Boatshed at Woy Woy on the

NSW Central Coast.

Where Fishermans wharf is today.

These two logos appear to be

business cards.

 

 Pre restoration.

9' 3 1/2" x 21 1/2" x 3 1/2"

Nose 16 3/8"

Tail 15 3/8"

Pod 3"

 

 Four views of the fin.

It is made of chopped strand matt.

The resin was pigmented yellow.

As were the original stripes.

I suspect that the fin is not original.

There are the remains of two nails

in the stringer, in the tunnel

which would have been used to

position a single fin.
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 Gloss coats down.

New pigment stripes under the gloss.

 

 Very flat rocker.

 

Finished.



CENTRAL COAST SURF DESIGNS FLYER PINTAIL

 This board is a 7' 

Central Coast Surf Designs

single fin flyer pintail.

Built at the Wamberal factory

in 1975/76

Bill thinks it may have been

 a personal board.

 Pre restoration.

Visible repairs on the tail.

 The bottom was in such poor condition

the glass had to be removed.

It had pretty much completely delaminated

and was covered with stress marks.

The white patch is the old repair

mentioned in the above image.

 New bottom lam down.

 Prepped and ready for some 

pigment work to hide the 

old repairs.

 Deck glossed.

 Deck logo.

This is a logo used at 

AGE surfboards when Bill worked there.

It is also the 

Bing Surfboards 'Maui Foil' logo
circa 1969.
Bill told me that he stopped
using the logo when he found out
it belonged to Bing Surfboards.

 Typical mid 70's foil.

Very refined. 

With the original fin.

The finished product.