French Customs confiscate Surfboard

French Customs confiscate Surfboard

The French Customs Story by Pat Morrell The story behind the French customs receipt is that is in 1973 Mike Hutchinson and I with our wives and Hutch’s 18 moth old daughter went to SW France for the summer holiday.  We intended going on into Spain hoping to find less...
‘The start of surfing on the Island’ by Pat Morrell

‘The start of surfing on the Island’ by Pat Morrell

‘The start of surfing on the Island’ by Pat Morrell Hutch and I started body boarding at Compton in 1955. My parents rented one of the huts that were out there then. The boards were just flat plywood sheets – the “posh” people had boards with curved up noses but ours...