by paul-wsh | Nov 3, 2010 | Surf Videos, The Noughties
Tiki National Interclub Surfing Championships 2010 Here are three small movies I did on day 2 of the competition. The swell had dropped and the light was poor on the Sunday but here are Johnny, Andrew and Lee in their heats. I will be posting all the images from the...
by paul-wsh | Oct 12, 2010 | Surf Blogs, The Noughties
What a day Saturday the 9th of October turned out to be. The swell started to grow from only a couple of foot first thing to an epic swell that saw Compton, Freshwater Bay and The Pearl all fireing. I checked Compton early and a few of you were either in or going in...
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 | Aug 18, 2010 | Surfer Profiles
Alan was born in East Cowes in 1970 and was brought up in Brighstone and later Sandown. Alan’s father Les was Captain of the lifeguards at Sandown in the 1950’s being one of the original lifeguards on the Isle of Wight. Les was in the team that won the 1953 All...