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 | Jan 11, 2011 | In Print, The Sixties
What is Surfing – by Robert Ward Is it pushing a plywood strip through six inches of white summer foam with Dad and the family, taking a slide of twenty yards with the kids screaming with excitiement? For many this is surfing. For some the difference between...
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 | 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 | Feb 9, 2010 | The Sixties
Surfing of some sort has been around as long as man has had interaction with the ocean. In Polynesia and Hawaii it is thought that surfboard riding has been part of their culture and lifestyle since at least 400 AD. Initially it was probably fishermen who used the...
