by paul-wsh | Dec 13, 2013 | The Eighties
I have been very kindly lent the IOW Surf Club’s 1983 guide to ‘Starting Surfing’ by Keith Williams. The guide was put together by Dave Phillips and Rog Butler with cover by Clive Richardson. Part 1: Isle of Wight Surf Club Guide – Learning to...
by paul-wsh | Dec 11, 2013 | The Eighties
Keith Williams finds a little barrel on the inside at Compton during a lovely little swell in the 1980’s.
by paul-wsh | Oct 22, 2013 | The Eighties
Wight Surf History has been given a surfboard originally thought to shaped by Dave Gray as part of a school project Dave passed the board onto Russell Farrel during the 1980’s and then passed to his brother Steve who has kindly given the board to Wight Surf...
by paul-wsh | Oct 16, 2013 | Surfer Profiles, The Eighties
Tad Ciastula started shaping boards with fellow British Hovercraft Corporation (B.H.C.) apprentice Dougie Clarke, spending their spare time out in the old tin shed at the training centre near Osborne House designing and shaping a knee board like the one George...
by paul-wsh | Sep 17, 2013 | The Eighties
Crossing the Atlantic and Returning Home (The Midnight Hour – Part 3) From-Multihull International, August 1990 By Rob Ward Antigua – Flores (Azores) initially making for Bermuda Having returned to Antigua for the second time from the Grenadines and many...
by paul-wsh | Sep 17, 2013 | The Eighties
The Next 5, 000 Miles (The Midnight Hour – Part 2) From-Multihull International, July 1990 By Rob Ward This is written in Prickly Bay, Grenada. The Midnight Hour arrived in Barbados a week ago. We stopped in Bequia and Martinique and then took our charterers to...
