Before Bobby Mctavish arrived at San Juan....THE DUNNY!!

Just before John Thomas (JT) bought San Juan Nat Young used to do a few, and I mean a few shapes and they would get glassed there, Nat left 3,roughshaped, Morning of the Earth style , 6'4' pintails , in Blanchies Shaping room which did not have much room in it, due to, that, unshaped blanks had to be also stored there. For quite some time, 5 or 6 months, JB ( Blanchy) continually hassled JT to do something with them as he needed the racks where they were stored , now remember both JT and JB were now Jehovah Witnesses, and after  a long period of JB threatning " if you dont do something with them ,I will" Blanchy finally did. I arrived at work at about 8.30 and went to the Dunny( this is a tin can,about 500cm across, used as the toilet before the sewerage went in) and shoved into the shit and piss were Nats 3 roughshaped boards, nose first. I went back to the glassing room where Billy Mclean was just setting up and told him what was in the Dunny....We cracked up as JB was a bit proud of what he had done , and when JT arrived and heard and saw the Dunny , he went red ,stormed down to JB and said half stuttering and trying very hard not to swear "ttthaattts not very cool BLANCHY" . JB who was in the shaping room working said" I told you if you didn't get rid of them I would so there you have it", with JT replying " bbuut thats not cool Blanchy" Blanchy replied " who really cares, there pieces of crap anyway and they're where they deserve to be." You can amagine them both trying to hold there cool with Bill and I laughing away in the background ,more so, when JT was pulling the blanks out of the Dunny ......They never got glassed, as we didn't have really good Shit brown tints in those days and to reflect on it now they would have made good collector pieces but would have been a bit smelly...... Later on Blanchy left and went  to Coffs harbour and Bobby Mctavish returned to the Bay, and started at San Juan, after being down Sydney at Bennetts. I never knew Bob at all before this but in a short time , got to know him and respect him which is still a strong comradeership with him today, his early passion around the Plastic Machine era set many of us on the same creative path pursuing design and ideas , and to boot He was and is a Bloody good Surfer.... to be continued