Old School Bombora & Blaxell Surfrider

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RichardG
RichardG
WA
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WA, 3761 posts
16 Oct 2016 12:57am
I just want to share images of these boards from my collection:

7'6" Bombora Proto, designed by Mark Paul, shaped by Alf Jefferies 1983, drop wing flyer swallow tail with spiral vee and tri fin set up with genuine 1983 Bombora footstraps

8'2" Bombora Proto, designed by Mark Paul, shaped by Alf Jefferies 1984, double flyer winged pintail single fin with genuine 1983 Bombora footstraps. Additional forward "purple" footstrap added in 1984 aftermarket.

8'4" Blaxell Surfrider, shaped and designed by Darryl Wilkes, single fin gun pintail genuine 1984 gaastra footstraps

They don't make them like this anymore. I hope people can enjoy these images.




































Roy
Roy
VIC
151 posts
Roy Roy
VIC, 151 posts
16 Oct 2016 8:16am
Seems like we lost our way when we moved to all black foot straps
Nice photos.
balsa
balsa
VIC
34 posts
VIC, 34 posts
16 Oct 2016 11:07am
Great boards and in such good nick.
Relic
Relic
TAS
838 posts
TAS, 838 posts
16 Oct 2016 6:45pm
I had the 8'2" New Toy production version of that proto. Not a work of art like yours but a brilliant board, even by today's standards
shear tip
shear tip
NSW
1125 posts
NSW, 1125 posts
16 Oct 2016 6:57pm
It's stretching my memory, but wasn't the New Toy more like the left board? Single winger swallow tail?
ka43
ka43
NSW
3101 posts
NSW, 3101 posts
16 Oct 2016 6:59pm
Spot on Mike. ^^^
RichardG
RichardG
WA
3761 posts
WA, 3761 posts
16 Oct 2016 4:04pm
I left this Bombora New Toy on the verge 2 weeks ago , with a yellow Strata Fin and it was gone within an hour.










Relic
Relic
TAS
838 posts
TAS, 838 posts
16 Oct 2016 8:58pm
It was a while ago....thanks for rekindling the memory! The one I had was an early production run which was faulty. It was chucked out after it went spongy underfoot. I rescued it from the rubbished skip, drilled out the soft spots and pumped it full of foaming resin. It sailed great after that. Jumped and turned too. Absolutely bullet proof!
R1DER
R1DER
WA
1476 posts
WA, 1476 posts
16 Oct 2016 9:30pm
First board I shaped back in 1984





RichardG
RichardG
WA
3761 posts
WA, 3761 posts
16 Oct 2016 10:13pm
Nice one. Were you influenced by the Bombora templates, as there is some similarity ?
appleman
appleman
TAS
443 posts
TAS, 443 posts
17 Oct 2016 7:30am
Unreal boards
Had a Bombora proto (Astro Toy) by Hot Buttered, my first proper fiberglass board.
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