by paul-wsh | Sep 17, 2013 | The Eighties
The Construction and First 5,000 Miles of The Midnight Hour From-Multihull International, March 1990 By Rob Ward With merely my third year’s subscription form for MI on the desk it may seem a bit presumptuous to put a new ribbon and double spacing on this battered...
by paul-wsh | Apr 19, 2012 | The Eighties
IOW Surf Club wins the Annual Ventnor to Sandown Cracker Race – by Tony Macpherson This race took place in the early 80’s. We had a surf club meeting in the Castle Inn in Newport and this peculiar race was mentioned. It got everyone interested and we...
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 | Feb 6, 2012 | The Eighties
Image: Chris Slater riding the wave at Compton with Dougie Saunders in the line up during the early 80’s. The image has no relation to the below article. Old Clarks’ Glossary of Surf – taken from Wight Water Magazine 1981 Being an Authoritive Guide...
by paul-wsh | Feb 3, 2012 | In Print, The Eighties
A tale written and illustrated after a few beers at the pub by Steve Williams and Dave Phillips. Most of part 1 first appeared in the IOW Surf Club magazine/newsletter Wight Water in 1981 and ended; ……’$15,000 Sports Council grant some years...
