Recently became the owner of this cool old Australian Surf Shop/Morey board and was wondering if anyone could tell me some more info on it. There’s a bit online regarding the shop at 235 Santa Clara with Tom Hale and Morey but I’m wondering if this is a board that should be on a wall rather than in the water. It has a few dings but is in exceptional condition considering it’s from the 60s. Is it worth getting a fin glassed in and getting it in the water?
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Can’t help with info but that’s a cool board! My personal belief is they were made to be ridden, get out and enjoy it!
its a rider!!!
Post a pic of the bottom
Those rails look pinchy as hell. If they are and if it has a rounded belly; go ride it in some racey tubes and surf it from the middle of the board: mindblowing.
Yeah I would surf it a few times before I put it on the wall. Could have been shaped by Tom Hale, depends on what year the board was shaped. Good chance of it being shaped by Dennis Ryder or even Bill “Blinky” Hubina. But it most likely came out of the Front Street location in Ventura. They used a lot of those double stringers. Stronger for a fin box, but still easier to rout than a wood stringer. I have said it for years; routing out a wood stringer for a fin box gave alot of guys headaches. It was a year or so before most shops mastered a router and realized they had to do it in multiple passes.
“Pinchy rails” sound like something “Blinky” would do.