UNDERGROUND EXPLORER: ROB WARD

UNDERGROUND EXPLORER: ROB WARD

Roger Mansfield has very kindly let me publish this great piece on Rob Ward taken from his book ‘The Surfing Tribe’. The story of British surfing would not be complete without reference to its underground surfers – those who passed up competition, fashion...
Future of my life – Rob Ward

Future of my life – Rob Ward

When I was in Simonstown Naval Dockyard with HMS Jaguar (in South Africa) I had made friends with a young fellow on a Naval  replenishment vessel. We’d met, so to speak, in the Mozambique Channel, during a RAS  (“Replenishment at Sea”). He and I...
Rob Ward

Rob Ward

I have recently been in contact with Rob Ward and this is what he had to say.   I am heading off into the South Australian desert in a week or so to Cactus. If you Google Ceduna South Australia and go west 60k to Penong, Cactus is on the coast 20k roughly south....
First Official Isle of Wight Surf Club Trip

First Official Isle of Wight Surf Club Trip

The very first official Isle of Wight Surf Club trip was to Newquay at Easter in 1967 Just after the club was formed. It seems like the Stone Age now. The thinking was it would be relatively warmer by then and it would be a chance to surf some proper waves. It was the...