George Greenough's Victorian Spoon

 

One Australian fall morning in the late 60's, George landed in Sydney with the expectation that Ted Spencer would pick him up, and they would head north to the Lennox/Byron area.

But nooooooooo .....

At the terminal, Ted informed him that they were, in fact, driving south to the chilly waters of Bells.

Long story short...the deep hulled, highly strung Velo model George was currently riding didn't work in the full faced Victorian waves. It needed a lot of curling power to fire. After a few frustrating days in the water, he began construction on a narrower, flatter spoon, with a pulled-in nose.

That board became his go-to junk wave spoon for about a year. It was a less-radical predecessor to the edge boards that would come along later.

There are shots of George riding his classic, deep hulled Velo model at Bells on a small day in Evolution, and you can see him struggling. There are also shots of the ''P-40 Velo'' model in Innermost Limits at a Queensland beach break, and it goes pretty good...

 
The P-40 board (and its logo) became iconic when it appeared in a WAVE Corporation ad the following year...