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 | Mar 29, 2010 | The Sixties
During the early sixties it wasn’t just the boys enjoying the waves, there were some pretty hardcore girls surfing on the Island with no wetsuits or leashes too. One of those was the young Susan Ellis (now Backhouse) who became the first Isle of Wight Surf Club...
by paul-wsh | Mar 25, 2010 | The Sixties
During the early 1960’s a group of friends had started to hang out on the cliff tops between Ventnor beach and Steephill Cove. These bored teenagers soon began to focus their attention on the ocean. The Island at that time still had many unexplored pockets of...
