by paul-wsh | Feb 29, 2012 | Surfer Profiles, The Seventies
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....
by paul-wsh | Sep 23, 2011 | Surfer Profiles, The Seventies
Peter Smith contacted me this week with his concerns over the proposal to build a harbour from Freshwater Bay saying he used to surf on the Island back in the 1970’s. Peter now lives in Newport Beach, California and is owner of Avalon Wine. I asked him to tell...
by paul-wsh | Jan 30, 2011 | Surfer Profiles, The Noughties
I always remember seeing Johnny down the fields at Compton surfing from dawn until dusk, and then in 1994 people began to notice his amazing talent as he became best cadet in the South Coast Surfing Championships at Niton. Johnny grew up surfing on the Island and last...
by paul-wsh | Jan 20, 2011 | Surfer Profiles, The Noughties
During the early Nineties the surfer on the Island leading the way was Stuart Jones, but not far behind him was a young Craig Sharp who was starting to turn heads. Over the next few years the gap between them got smaller and smaller. By November 19-20th 1994 it was...
by paul-wsh | Jan 11, 2011 | Surfer Profiles
by Keith Williams Personalities Well, there have been so many. Some have had a mention earlier, others worthy of inclusion in this tome would be, in no particular order:- Derek Rust, always known as BH Rusty, to differentiate him from Rusty Long, so called because of...
by paul-wsh | Oct 4, 2010 | Surfer Profiles, The Sixties
A Surfing Life-by Sid Pitman, (or the ramblings of a senile idiot). I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been involved at the start of surfing in Great Britain and especially on the Isle of Wight. The friends I have made and the great times /fun we had...