by paul-wsh | Nov 27, 2013 | The Seventies
Issue No 2 of the Isle of Wight Surf Clubs magazine ‘Wight Water’ came out in the autumn of 1976. It included a write up on the IOW Surf Club longboard competition won by Tad Ciastula, 2nd Dave Jacobs, 3rd Keith Williams, Pete Brown and Dave Grey. It also...
by paul-wsh | Oct 16, 2013 | Surfer Profiles, The Eighties
Tad Ciastula started shaping boards with fellow British Hovercraft Corporation (B.H.C.) apprentice Dougie Clarke, spending their spare time out in the old tin shed at the training centre near Osborne House designing and shaping a knee board like the one George...
by paul-wsh | Jan 25, 2012 | The Sixties
Alan Hunter contacted me last year and told me about the apprentices from BHC (British Hovercraft Corporation) back in the 60’s being some of the first guys to start surfing. Earlier this week I met up with Alan and he told me a few stories from those times....
by paul-wsh | Jan 5, 2012 | The Seventies
Surfing Never Dies, it will always be part of us – by Tad Ciastula A couple of weeks a go I got a great email from Tad and Sue. Tad had managed to persuade Sue to dig out some old pics from the 70’s for us to use here on the website and this is what Tad...
by paul-wsh | Jan 11, 2011 | Surfer Profiles
by Keith Williams Personalities Well, there have been so many. Some have had a mention earlier, others worthy of inclusion in this tome would be, in no particular order:- Derek Rust, always known as BH Rusty, to differentiate him from Rusty Long, so called because of...
