by paul-wsh | Oct 5, 2010 | Surf Trips, The Nineties
By 1993 I had a newer VW Camper, it was better equipped and I had surfing a lot. The previous year I had done a trip out to New Zealand surfing at Raglan and Piha and stopping on Oahu, Hawaii on the way home. I was very excited about this trip to France as it was the...
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...
by paul-wsh | Oct 4, 2010 | Surfer Profiles, The Sixties
Part 2: The Surf Cub is formed. It was at about this time (1966) that Jake came to me at work one day with the news that he’d seen an advertisement in the County Press saying ‘Isle of Wight Surf Club now formed. Write to The Secretary, Albert St, Ventnor’ This looked...
by paul-wsh | Sep 20, 2010 | Surf Trips, The Nineties
In 1991 I managed to persuade Stuart Jones and Richard Harvey to do a surf trip to the South of France. At that time Stuart and Ritchie in my opinion were among the best surfers on the Island. I had never been there before but had heard many tales from Steve and Keith...
