I have been told a story about Paul Taylor, Dave Grey & Chris Salter once doing a trip to the west country. At the end of the trip and time to think about returning home they realised that they were all skint, totally penniless. The boys soon came to the conclusion that the only way [...]
Sep 01, 2010 | Categories: Surf Trips, The Seventies | Tags: 1970's, 70, 70's, archive, Chris, Chris Salter, Christopher, Christopher Salter, compton, Compton Bay, Cornwall, Dave, Dave Grey, Gray, Grey, Home, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Money, Paul, Paul Taylor, people, photo, photographs, Sale, Salter, Sold, stoked, surf, Surf Trip, Surfer, surfing, Tayler, Taylor, The Seventies, waves, West, West Country, wetsuit, wightsurfhistory | Leave A Comment »
Soon after this Al was surfing Porthleven with Dean Winter when he went too deep and got smashed into the reef. Al ended up quite battered and bruised and with broken ribs. A Pregnant Julie and Al had already decided to move back to the Island and at that point Al was desperate to get as much surfing in before they left. So even with broken ribs and feeling quite sore Al continued to surf, paddling into waves with one arm until they left for the Island.
Aug 18, 2010 | Categories: Surfer Profiles | Tags: 1950's, 2cv, 4 fin drive, 60’s stylemasters, Al Reed, alan reed, aMY rEED, archive, Ataxia, Ataxia type 6, Bare Knuckle Boxer, Bare Knuckle Boxing, Barney, Barnstormers, Barrels, Beau Young, Bert, Bert Spencer, Blackthorn, Blackthorn Cider, Brighstone, broken ribs, Captain, Catweasle, Cerri Williams, Chapter, Chris Jones, chronic pancreatitis, Cider, Clean, Commodore, compton, Compton Bay, Cornwall, Corset, Custard Point, Dave Gray, Dave Grey, Dean Winter, Duane Desoto, DVD, East Cowes, East Wittering, Fistral, Freshwater, freshwater bay, Glassy, Grange Chine, Guy Leverton, history, Hotdoggers, hypothermia, In The Sun, interclub championships, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Island Myland, Island surf movies, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Ferries, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Israel Paskowitz, Jeremy Robinson, Jill Fryer, Joel Tudor, Johnny Fryer, Julie Reed, Ladies Hotdoggers Team, largest ever surfboard, Les Reed, Lifeguard, lifeguards, Lifestyle, Lightning Bolt, Log, longboard, M.M.Y., Mark Neville, Marsh Mellow Yellow, Martin Spencer, MMY, Mohawk, Mount Wise, MOVIE, movies, Naby, Nat Young, Navy, Newquay, Newquay Surf Board Company, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Nodes Hill Holiday Park, North East, North Fistral, Nose Rider, Ocean Magic, Offshore Sports, Olive Saunders, Only fools and horses, Oxbow, Oxbow Longboard European Tour, pancreatitis, people, Perranporth, photo, photographs, Popout, Porthleven, portrait, Prince of Wales, Prince of Wales Pub, punk, punk rock, punk rocker, Quad Fin, Ray Hutchings, Record Breakers, reef, Robert Weaver, Robert ‘Wingnut’ Weaver, Roger Butler, Roger Mansfield, Russell Winter, Sailing Regattas, Sam Lamiroy, Sandown Bay, Saunton, session, sessions, Shanklin Pier, Shore Surf Club, Sid Vicious, South Coast Championships, South Fistral, Spencer Morgan, Spiked, Spikes, Sponsored, Steve Winter, stoked, surf, surf movies, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, Susan Reed, swell, swells, Takuji Masuda, thruster, Tristan May, TV12, UK Nose Riding Championships, UK2K, Vit Sea, Vitamin Sea, Wales, waves, wetsuit, wightlink, Wightlink Ferries, Wightlink Ferry, wightsurfhistory, Wingnut, Winter | Leave A Comment »
Isle of Wight Surf Club movie made in the very early 1970′s by Annie Macpherson
Footage from Compton, Niton and Freshwater Bay starring Roger Cooper, Dave Salero, Roger Backhouse, Dougie Saunders, Sid Pitman, Keith Williams, Tony Macpherson, Pete Brown, Magic ‘Cosmic’ Surf, Dave Jacobs, Brian Hill and others.
Aug 15, 2010 | Categories: Surf Videos, The Seventies | Tags: 1970, 1970's, 1971, 1972, 70's, Annie Macpherson, archive, Brian Hill, Castle Haven, compton, Compton Bay, Dave Jacobs, Dave Salero, Dougie Saunders, Freshwater, freshwater bay, history, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Island, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Keith Williams, longboard, Magic 'Cosmic' Surf, niton, people, Pete Brown, preview, Roger Backhouse, roger cooper, Sid Pitman, stoked, surf, Surf Club, surfboard, Surfer, surfers, surfing, Tony Macpherson, waves, wight, Wight Surf History, wightsurfhistory, wightsurfhistory.co.uk | Leave A Comment »
Al Reed in the County Press for his 3rd place in the 60′s Stylemasters
Aug 09, 2010 | Categories: In Print | Tags: 40, 60's Stylemasters, Al Reed, alan reed, archive, Arreton, Black Da Cat, board, compton, Compton Bay, county press, Da Cat#, Freshwater, freshwater bay, history, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight County Press, Isle of Wight County Press Newspaper, Isle of Wight Surf Club, isle of wightr county press, longboard, Mickey Dora, Mickey Dora Black Da Cat, newspaper, North Devon, people, photographs, portrait, Rich Emerson, Rob Wright, Saunton, stoked, surf, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, The Nineties, The Noughties, waves, wightlink, wightsurfhistory | Leave A Comment »
A great shot of Lennie Parker was used in the Isle of Wight – Island breaks 2000 official guide. Len now lives in Florida but regularly gets back to the Island and catches up with a family and friends.
Jul 15, 2010 | Categories: In Print, The Noughties | Tags: archive, compton, Compton Bay, Freshwater, freshwater bay, history, IOW, Isle of Wight, Len, Len Parker, Lennie, Lennie Parker, longboard, Parker, people, photo, photographs, stoked, surf, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, The Noughties, waves | Leave A Comment »
On Wednesday 17th November of 1993 myself (Paul Blackley) and Richard Harvey were on our way to the South Island of New Zealand in search of waves. We had traveled down from New Plymouth and were on the cross Island ferry about to disembark at Picton at 10pm when we heard a call on local radio from the Dept. of Conservation for volunteers to help to try and rescue stranded Long-finned Pilot Whales at Farewell Spit, Golden Bay, South Island, New Zealand.
Mar 30, 2010 | Categories: Surf Trips, The Nineties | Tags: 1993, 90's, archive, beach, Beached, December 1993, Department of Conservation, Department. of Conservation New Zealand, Dept. of Conservation, Dept. of Conservation New Zealand, Dolphin, Dolphins, Farewell Spit, Globicephala, Globicephala melas, Golden Bay, history, IOW, Isle of Wight, Kaikoura, Long-finned Pilot Whales, Mangamanu, melas, New Zealand, New Zealand Army, Newcastle, paul blackley, people, photo, photographs, Pilot Whales, Rich Harvey, Rich Holmes, Richard Harvey, Richard Holmes, Ritchie, Ritchie Harvey, South Island, stoked, Stranded, Stranding, Strandings, surf, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, survivor, survivors, The Nineties, waves, Whale, Whales, wightsurfhistory | 3 Comments »
During the early 1960’s a group of friends had started to hang out on the cliff tops between Ventnor beach and Steephill Cove. These bored teenagers soon began to focus their attention on the ocean. The Island at that time still had many unexplored pockets of coastline or so it felt to this group of friends. The ocean soon became their playground.
Mar 25, 2010 | Categories: The Sixties | Tags: 12ft wooden surfboards, 1960, 1960's, 29 Spring Hill, Archie Trickett, archive, B&W, belly board, belly boards, bellyboard, bellyboards, Biarritz, Bilbo, Bilbo surf shop, Bob Head, Cascades, Colin Burgess, Colin Hicks, compton, Compton Bay, European Championships, France, Freshwater, freshwater bay, Geoff Gardner, Geoff ‘Ned’ Garner, half inch thick wetsuits, history, homemade 12ft wooden surfboards, homemade skateboards, Hutch, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight County Press, Isle of Wight County Press Newspaper, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Joel de Rosnay, John Ainsworth, Kevin Digweed, Lillywhites, Little Stairs, Little Stairs beach, longboard, Mike Hutchinson, Mike ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson, Ned, Newquay, niton, Paint Spot, Pat Morrell, Paul Coleman, people, photo, photographs, portrait, Rod Sumpter, Roger Backhouse, Russell Long, San Diego Surf Championships, Sandown, Skateboard, Skateboarding, skimboard, skimboarding, Steephill, Steephill Cove, stoked, Sue Ellis, surf, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, Ventnor, waves, wetsuit, wetsuits, Wight Water, wightsurfhistory, wooden belly boards, wooden surfboards, woodwork teacher, ‘Old Joe’ | 1 Comment »
‘Best be Ready’ from Tube News “I’ve seen it good here. I remember, it was an August Sunday, one of those days when it seems everybody goes to the beach. This place was packed. The sky was that deep blue you associate with a clean and dustless atmosphere; it was sweltering, the sun a fireball, [...]
Feb 08, 2010 | Categories: In Print, The Eighties | Tags: archive, autumn, compton, history, IOW, Isle of Wight, longboard, stoked, surf, Surfer, surfing, swell | 3 Comments »
Gallery of the images that were displayed on the ‘history wall’ at the opening wight surf history exhibition
Jan 26, 2010 | Categories: IOW surfing through the decades, Surf Exhibitions, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Seventies | Tags: archive, B&W, Clive Richardson, Craig Sharp, Crystal Voyager, Dave Grey, david Grey, exhibition, France, Graham Skelley, history, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Jason Mathews, Jay Mathews, Jo Turner, Les Sables D'Olonne, Malc Dredge, Mike Smith, Ned Gardner, people, photo, portrait, Ray Hutchings, Richard Harvey, Ritchie, Ritchie Harvey, Roger Backhouse, Sid Pitman, Stu Jones, Stuart Jones, wightsurfhistory | 1 Comment »
