by paul-wsh | Feb 26, 2012 | The Sixties
The very first official Isle of Wight Surf Club trip was to Newquay at Easter in 1967 Just after the club was formed. It seems like the Stone Age now. The thinking was it would be relatively warmer by then and it would be a chance to surf some proper waves. 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 30, 2010 | The Sixties
‘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...
by paul-wsh | Sep 27, 2010 | Surfer Profiles, The Sixties
The following is part 1 of a collection of memories garnered from well over 50 years of enjoyment of the sea & surfing and the people connected with it. The exact sequence or timing of events may not be entirely accurate, but the events themselves are broadly as I...
