In 1985 The Isle of Wight Surf Club produced a calender for sale to its members. It was pre-printed with all the years events, meetings and the tide times at Compton at the weekends. Highlights for that year were;
Thursday 3rd January – Slides/Talk by Roger Mansfield (Former UK Champion) 7.30pm, Sail Loft, Union Road, Sandown
Friday 18th January – Agm/Video, Teachers Centre 7.30pm
Friday 8th February – Fancy Dress Disco
Saturday 2nd March – Jumble Sale, Wilberforce Hall, Brighstone
Saturday 16th March – Swim Marathon
Friday 12th April – Surf Film/Video
Sunday 26th May – Longboard Contest 3.00pm and barbecue
Sunday 9th June – (Back up date for Longboard Contest) 3.00pm
Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd June – Camping Weekend/Compton Farm
Saturday 6th July – Open Day/Barbecue 12 noon onwards
Saturday 10th August – Paddle Race/barbecue 4pm onwards
Saturday 7th September – Barbecue/Frisbee Contest
Saturday 28th September – Shortboard Contest 10am
Sunday 13th October – (Back up date for Shortboard contest) 10am
Frday 15th November – Surf Film/Video
Sunday 15th December – Cracker Race
If you can shed some light on any of these events please get in touch. Some one told me that the IOW Surf Club won the Cracker Race in Sandown? 3 years in a row???
Jan 13, 2011 | Categories: In Print, The Eighties | Tags: 1980's, 1985, 80's, 980, AGM, archive, B&W, Barbecue, BBQ, Calender, Camping, Camping Weekend, compton, Compton Bay, Compton Farm, contest, Cracker Race, Fancy Dress, Fancy Dress Disco, film, Frisbee, history, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Jumble Sale, longboard, paddle, paddle race, Roger Mansfield, Sail Loft, shortboard, stoked, surf, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, Swim Marathon, tide, Tides, UK Champion, video, waves, wightsurfhistory, Wilberforce Hall | 1 Comment »
Tiki Interclub Surfing Championships 2010
Here are three small movies I did on day 2 of the competition. The swell had dropped and the light was poor on the Sunday but here are Johnny, Andrew and Lee in their heats.
Nov 03, 2010 | Categories: Surf Videos, The Noughties | Tags: 2010, Andrew Tyrell, archive, beach, blackley, Championships, Competition, Croyde, Devon, Footage, Heat, Heats, history, Interclub, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Johnny Fryer, Lee Sheaf, MOVIE, movies, National, North Devon, paul blackley, people, stoked, surf, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, The Noughties, Tiki, Tiki National Interclub Surfing Championships 2010, Vid, video, Vids, waves, wightsurfhistory | 1 Comment »
A great big thanks to Andy for coming down to the Island for the Surf Movie Night weekend and for being there with his camera when we got those great waves on Saturday 9th October 2010 at Compton.
Andy has a great Longboarding movie ‘Devon Lanes and Longboards’ (shown on the movie night) for sale.
The film was born out of the love of surfing and an appreciation of North Devon, its waves, its people and its places. Devon Lanes and Longboards features many of the UK’s top Longboarders surfing at various beaches around the North Devon area. Starring local surfers including Ben Haworth, Ashley Braunton, Phil Hill and many more. It also features other top Longboarders such as Ben Skinner, Elliot Dudley, James Parry and Adam Griffiths.
The motivation to complete and publish the film was stimulated by the awful news Andy’s sister was diagnosed with secondary cancers in April 2009. Andy wanted to show her his love and support by making and dedicating this film to her fight against cancer and to donate all the profits from the film to a charity of her choosing.
Oct 18, 2010 | Categories: Surf Videos, The Noughties | Tags: 09/10/2010, 9/10/10, 9/10/2010, 9th October, 9th October 2010, Andrew Haworth, Andy Haworth, archive, Barney Barnes, beach, Bert, Bert Spencer, blackley, Chris Mannion, compton, Compton Bay, Dave Downer, Devon Lanes & Longboards, Devon Lanes and Longboards, Dominic Ward, film, history, IOW, Isle of Wight, joe truman, longboard, Martin 'Bert' Spencer, Martin Spencer, MOVIE, Nick Whittle, Oct 9th 2010, October 9th, October 9th 2010, paul blackley, people, stoked, surf, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, The Noughties, video, waves, wetsuit, wightsurfhistory | 1 Comment »
What a day Saturday the 9th of October turned out to be. The swell started to grow from only a couple of foot first thing to an epic swell that saw Compton, Freshwater Bay and The Pearl all fireing. I checked Compton early and a few of you were either in or going in and it was about 2 – 3ft and building. The wind looked a little strong, making the waves hard to catch but as the swell grew it got better and better. I knew I was only going to get one go at getting a few waves so opted to come back in a couple of hours in hope my timing would pay off. Will still alot of things to finalise for the movie night I did about 15mins filming and the shot off to try and get as much done as possible in 2 hours.
While I was away my phone didn’t stop. I had messages saying nearly every break from Freshwater Bay right round to Sandown were breaking. When I came past Freshwater Bay there was too much water and I couldn’t wait any longer. At Compton I met up with Andy Haworth (Devon Lanes and Longboards) who was already on the cliff top filming (Can’t wait to see the footage Andy). After quick introductions he exclaimed that in all his times on the Island he had never seen Compton like that. While talking a set came through and I hadn’t seen anything like that at Compton for a very very long time. I then ran back to my car to get changed and get in. With only about 15 – 20 people in the water it was perfect, I managed to get a couple of the big set waves right to the beach. When I wasn’t catching waves it was just great to watch some of you guys getting some great waves and the standard of surfing on the Island is very high. I don’t know all of you, but being out there on Saturday really showed that all those days surfing in small wind chop, onshores and just getting in when there was any wave has produced some excellent surfers on the Island.
I only had a short time at the beach and only managed to photograph Compton for about an hour. If any of you have any good photographs of anywhere on Saturday please send them in to us and we’ll put up a gallery of all your shots. I have seen some great shots of The Pearl and Freshwater Bay on Facebook so send them to us too.
Havig such a great swell during the day it couldn’t have been any better for the Movie night. With everyone buzzing from the waves earlier in the day the Sandpipers was soon full to the brim and a wall of noise as everyone talked about the waves. We started the evening with ‘Devon Lanes and Longboards’ by Andy Haworth (If you are interested in buying Andy’s movie go to his website here Devon Lanes and Longboards ). This was followed by a great movie by Sid Pitman ‘Surf Rats’. We also had Strat Cat Productions who very kindly set up a screen and played movies in the Sandpipers big hall all night from ‘Brown Water’ by Sid, ‘Isle of Wight Surf Club’ by Annie Macpherson and Andy Haworths footage from the day. A big thanks to Mark, Nigel and the boys for helping making it a great night. The evning was to finish with ‘Fusion’ by Ross Johns and you can also buy his movie at surfclips.co.uk. At this point I think most of the Ale in the bar had gone and people still wanted more, so by popular request we put on Bert’s ‘Wight Water’. We went on playing movies well into the early hours and raised over £100 for the Freshwater Lifeboat. Many thanks to all who came and especially Jason, Andy, Ross, Annie, Sid, Bert, Al, The Sandpipers Hotel, the West Wight Landscape Partnership and all who helped to make the evening a great success (Apologies if I forgot anyone).
If anyone took any photos during the Surf Movie Evening we would love to put a few on here too, so send them in to paul@wightsurfhistory.co.uk
Oct 12, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs, The Noughties | Tags: "jason swain", 9/10/10, 9/10/2010, 9th October 2010, Al Reed, alan reed, Andrew Haworth, Andy Haworth, Annie Macpherson, beach, Bert, blackley, blog, Brown water, compton, Compton Bay, Den Butler, Devon Lanes and Longboards, Doug Saunders, Dougie Saunders, Epic Swell, Freshwater, freshwater bay, Freshwater Lifeboat, Fusion, history, Ian Hutchinson, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Lifeboat, longboard, Martin 'Bert' Spencer, Martin Spencer, Mike Hutchinson, MOVIE, movies, paul blackley, people, Perfect waves, photo, photographs, R.N.L.I, RNLI, Rog Butler, Roger Butler, Ross Johns, Sandown, Sandpipers Hotel, Saturday, Sid Pitman, stoked, Strat Cat Production, surf, Surf Movie Evening, Surf Movie Night, Surf rats, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, The Noughties, The Pearl, video, waves, West Wight Landscape Partnership, wetsuit, wightsurfhistory, WWLP | Leave A Comment »
A short movie from Friday afternoon at Compton Bay.
Sep 05, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs, Surf Videos, The Noughties | Tags: "jason swain", 360, 360 degrees, aerial, air, blackley, Chris Mannion, compton, Compton Bay, Freshwater, freshwater bay, history, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Surf Club, joe truman, longboard, mal, mini mal, MOVIE, paul blackley, people, Ross Williams, Scot Gardner, stoked, surf, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, The Noughties, video, waves, wetsuit, wightsurfhistory | Leave A Comment »
In the water… Steve New, Matt Harwood, Scott Gardener and Manni.
Feb 18, 2010 | Categories: Surf Videos, The Noughties | Tags: Hayley Best, Manni, Matt Harwood, niton, Scott Gardener, Steve New, surf, Surfer, surfing, The Noughties, video, waves | Leave A Comment »