by paul-wsh | Jun 14, 2012 | The Noughties
English Surfing Championships 2012 At the 4th time of asking the English Surfing Championships hosted by Extreme Academy at Watergate Bay finally got under way. The storms that had lashed the South west during the week had left a residual dying swell. With this the...
by paul-wsh | Apr 12, 2012 | The Noughties
The Wight Surf History Exhibition officially starts tomorrow. The first exhibition of surf memorabilia and photography from the last 50 years at Dimbola Museum and Galleries, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight on Saturday 14th April 2012 and runs for 10 weeks. The...
by paul-wsh | Apr 9, 2012 | Surf Blogs, Surfer Profiles, The Sixties
Before Rob Ward set off to Cactus I asked him about the ‘Elite Clique Surf Club’, Roger Mansfield and how his preperations were coming along. Elite Clique Surf Club – I can’t quite remember how it went but evidently we weren’t allowed to...
by paul-wsh | Apr 8, 2012 | Surfer Profiles, The Seventies
I suppose I have always considered myself a surfer. I was brought up in Joberg, South Africa, but holidays on the coast at Morgans Bay and Port St Johns near Durban always involved belly boarding on the wooden boards. It was in Port St Johns in 1970 that I spotted...
by paul-wsh | Apr 2, 2012 | The Noughties
The ‘Wight Surf History’ Project opens its first exhibition of surf memorabilia and photography from the last 50 years at Dimbola Museum and Galleries, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight on Saturday 14th April 2012 and runs for 10 weeks. The exhibition will...
