Obelix said..

I had a 135L , 292 cm slalom Bombora (PVC)
It was around 15 kg.

How much?
I advertised it for free here, and nobody wanted it. As I put it on the verge, it disappeared overnight

Having said that, I learnt how to water start on it, and was the first board I ever gybed so some fond memories.

aribenasher said..
Bombora New Toy a great board and ahead of its time the fin boxes were its weakness. Also the fins were no good. I remember stuffing one up after a few weeks hitting some rocks at Pelican Point in Nov. 1983 and being given a new one by Murray Smith

Specs of the plastic ones are greatly exaggerated above. This is nothing like the later Bombora Slaloms...

New Toy: 85 L, 10.3 kg (hard rails, winger/swallowtail with spiral V)

Advert blurb- believe me in 1982 this was pretty accurate ! : "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. "

[however the last bit about "hard bite in turns" probably was more accurate for the glass versions,..]

At some point they added..."Backed by a two year warranty, an Australian design award winner."

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Also here is pick of a glass proto from ebay very similar to New Toy but likely much lighter and better !I would love this board !



























Interestingly I saw Mark's Paul's proto (this had the sharks teeth on the nose- a great graphic..) for the New Toy see photo below for sale on ebay in 2008 it went for $25. It would have been a great buy ! I am sure others with Freesail mags or early Australian Sailing ( i have chucked out mine) will have the photo of the New Toy proto doing an upside down jump from around 1982. It was a glass proto..










Specs on other plastic boards of Bombora between 1983-1986 are:

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)

The glass protos were much better !

I intend to get one soon again....

N1GEL said..


Does any of the product info you have mention an epoxy version. I had one in epoxy and never saw another one. It had a silver and blue Bombora kangaroo tail on the nose. I also had a plastic newtoy. The epoxy version was literally half the weight, heaps quicker to plane and had better top speed, but it only lasted about 12 months before delam'ing around the footstraps from jumping. I tried to get another one under warranty, but they couldn't supply one so offered me something else in the range.