hollow surfboard
Type of wooden surfboard-paddleboard popular in the 1930s and '40s. The invention and development of the hollow surfboard is traditionally credited to Tom Blake, but others have said that Honolulu woodworker Abel Gomes, working with and for Blake, actually produced the first hollows. Judged on its wave-handing characteristics, the hollow board was at best a lateral step in the surfboard's design ...
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Jersey Surf Club, England, 1957Subscribe to view
Building a hollow surfboard in Hawaii, 1939Subscribe to view
Bondi Beach surfer on hollow board, 1950Subscribe to view
Tom Blake on a hollow surfboard, Waikiki, 1930sSubscribe to view
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Hollow Surfboard
Jersey Surf Club, England, 1957
Building a hollow surfboard in Hawaii, 1939
Bondi Beach surfer on hollow board, 1950
Tom Blake on a hollow surfboard, Waikiki, 1930s
Tail section of hollow surfboard, 1930s