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 20, 2010 | Surf Trips, The Nineties
In 1991 I managed to persuade Stuart Jones and Richard Harvey to do a surf trip to the South of France. At that time Stuart and Ritchie in my opinion were among the best surfers on the Island. I had never been there before but had heard many tales from Steve and Keith...