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.
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From the Virgin Islands they traveled onto America, working their way across to the west coast. They stopped in North Carolina to stay with Barney’s sister Rosie who was at university there. Word had got around about Barney and Chris’s travels through Europe and across to the Caribbean and onto the U.S.A. and the university president had questioned Barney’s sister Rosie where they would be staying. When he found out that they were staying at her small flat he made arrangements for them to stay at his mansion. The staff were never to remember Barney and Chris’s name properly and they soon became known as Bonnie and Clyde by the them.
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During the early sixties it wasn’t just the boys enjoying the waves, there were some pretty hardcore girls surfing on the Island with no wetsuits or leashes too.
Mar 29, 2010 | Categories: The Sixties | Tags: 1960, 1965, 1967, 1968, 60, 60's, Aston Martin, Atlantic, Atlantic Coast, Bournmouth, Bude, Champion, compton, Constantine, Cornish, Cornwall, Crantock, Fistral, freshwater bay, Galway, Girl, Girlfriends, Girls, Ireland, Isle of Wight Surf Club Secretary, Judy Bull, Kimmeridge, La Hinch, leashes, Lynmouth, Marazion, Merry Hughes, Mini, niton, Ocean, Oil Spill, Oil Tanker, Oiltanker, Prah Sands, RAF ST Mawgan, Renuyle, Rita Long, Rolls Royce, Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin, Shigo, Split Screen, Split Screen VW Van, Steephill Cove, Sue Backhouse, Sue Ellis, Sue Ellis (Backhouse), Supertanker, Susan Backhouse, Susan Ellis, Sweeney's Hotel, Sweeney's Oughterard House, The Sixties, Torrey Canyon, Ventnor, Victoria Freer, Victoria Pickering, Watergate, Wendy, wetsuits, White City, Whitecliff Bay, Women, Woolacome | Leave A Comment »
There were little pockets of surfers scattered around the Island all experimenting with surfing in their own ways
Feb 09, 2010 | Categories: The Sixties | Tags: 1960's, 60's, beach, Belly Boarding, Ben Kelly, boat, canoe, Canoes, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook, Colin Burgess, Cook, Cornwall, Culture, Duke, Duke Kahanmoku, fibreglass, Fishermen, Geoff Gardner, Geoff ‘Ned’ Gardner, Glyn Kernick, Great Western, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Hutch, Insurance, Jimmy Dix, John Ainsworth, Kauai, keel, Keith Williams, Kevin Digweed, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Matavai Point, Mike Hutchinson, Mike ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson, Ned Gardner, Paddled, Pat Morrell, Pip Staffieri, Polynesia, Prince Edward, Roger Backhouse, Russell Long, Sid Pitman, Sue Backhouse, Susan Ellis (Backhouse), The Sixties, Towan, Waikiki, Wave riding, waves, wooden board, wooden boards, Wooden Surfboard, wooden surfboards | Leave A Comment »
