Hi Easty,

As I recall, the base plate bolted in place using two (or even four?) bolts. More secure and less chance of ripping out the mast track(s).

Was only a young un at the time, but sailed my mates salmon pink version a bit....oh Mark Paul those colours were so....eighties
We always thought it was for waveriding...offset to the leeward side for more rail drive...hahaha

Very strange easty,i to found one of Mark Pauls early wave protos the other day,did a search and found out some very intresting history,cauld not find any photos of his boards though.In the early days i think all his boards were some sort of proto.

They were no Storm8 though

Hausey said...
The Antartica came a few years later and was a better shape?

Surprised they didn't bring out a triple mast track - with 9 bolts....the rope uni was a classic.

The New Toy had a crazy shape: Drop wing flyers, swallow tail, thrusters and I think it had double concaves aswell (could be wrong on that one)

The antartica was a much cleaner shape, more slalom outline and I think only a slight vee at the tail.

The rope uni was horrendous! I had to replace the rope monthly. At least I learned how to tie a bowline and a figure eight knot.

I used to lust after the New Toy, and spent weeks trying to convince my parents why I should have one. The colours, the footstraps, the groovy mylar sail, and last but definitely not least-the kanga cock fin! Never did succeed in my quest (my life's been empty ever since...) and never even got to sail one. I did howeverf get plenty of water time in on my mates' Storm 8s, and really rated those. Much better than the ridiculously small, spin out prone custom sinker I ended up with at the time...

Cheers, Jens

sausage said...
Jens,
I'll sell you my 1985 Bombora South PAcific for $1,000. Pick-up (by forklift) only

You can have mine for $900 delivered. Pastel yellow with pink inserts.

said goodbye to my "fizzy yellow" antartica a couple of years ago.

was a sad day.

shear tip said...

sausage said...
Jens,
I'll sell you my 1985 Bombora South PAcific for $1,000. Pick-up (by forklift) only

You can have mine for $900 delivered. Pastel yellow with pink inserts.

Mine's pink with brass footstrap inserts - must be the pro edition. Hence the difference in price. Also has some custom Bombora stickers I made out of "contact" on the bottom. Must get a photo then you'll buy it for sure.

Still even got the rope universal with the slot in pin mast base key that had an expanding rubber grommet on the end when tightened.

I'm thinking of going and rescuing that New Toy from the tip shop - but what could I do with it? Any ideas for garden furniture?

I had three Bombora New Toy's and they were awesome. Kept delaminating them or stuffing them in some way, but they were great; first one Pink, then Blue and then White, I think. These NewToys were absolutely awesome boards. I also had a few Bombora Tri Fin's and they were pretty good apart from spinning out a lot. The Antartica Wave's came a bit later and I thought they were terrible.

Dec 1986:
New Toy: 85 L, 10.3 kg (hard rails, winger/swallowtail with spiral V)
Tri Fin: 116L, 12.6 kg (soft/hard in tail, wide pin, double concave)
Antartica Wave: 96L, 11.9 kg (fine rails, pin tail, spiral V)

New Toy: Without a doubt the world's most radical production sinker!! Hard to beat for a wild wind/big wave performance the winger/swallow tail delivers clean water release and hard bite in turns. Backed by a two year warranty, an Austrlaina design Award winner.

I was lucky enough to have the full Bombora kit - just like in the advert and it was the hottest thing since sliced bread at the time!!! Even had the mast-top streamer :-)

I never regretted getting it. It was a huge step forward at the time, only rivaled by the Storm 8 (which I though was a bendy load of crap).

All these young guys have no idea what it was like to have something that radical available, after putting up with the original Windsurfer board and triangular sail for so long.....

I wish I had kept my old sail, - just to hang up the shed!