Being a woodwork teacher, Hutch had made his own board, out of plywood naturally, and an invitation to try it at Compton was made. ‘Don’t try to shoot the curl’ he said, ‘just ride the white water’ What the bloody hell did all that mean?? Suffice to say that after half an hour I was exhausted, having totally failed to catch anything let alone ‘shoot the curl’.
Sep 27, 2010 | Categories: Surfer Profiles, The Sixties | Tags: 1" Pine Stringer, 1957, 1960's, 1965, 60's, Aluminium Channel, apprentice, archive, Bae, Bae Systems, bathroom, beach, Ben Kelley, Big Ear, Blue Peter, body surf, break, Brighstone, carpenter, Cascemite wood glue, Cat, Channel Islands, compton, Compton Bay, Cornwall, Cowes, crests, Cultural Revolution, Curl, Da Cat#, Dabell's, Dad, Dave Jacobs, Dave Jake, drainpipe jeans, drop-in, DSOTM, dumped, England, Experimental Workshop, fibre glass, fin box, foam blank, Gidget, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Grange Chine, history, Holiday, Hurricanes RFC, Hutch, inventor, Inventor of the removable fin box, IOW, Isle of Wight, Jake, joker, July, Keith Williams, Kelley's Left, longboard, Magpie, Malibu, Man on Fire, Mickey Dora, Mid 60's, Mike Hutchinson, Miklos, Miklos (Micky) Chapin Dora III, Motorcycle jacket, Neap Tides, October, Odeon Cinema, Odeon Picture House, offshore, Pat Morrell, Patrick Morrell, pearl, Pictures, Plessey, Plessey Radar, plywood board, plywood surfboard, Polystyrene, Polystyrene foam, rainbows, removable fin box, resin, rockers quiff, Roger Backhouse, Rugby, Sandown, shaper, Shaping, Shoot the curl, Shore, shore break, Sid Pitman, Sidney Pitman, spray, steve williams, stoked, surf, surf board, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, swim, Teacher, The Cat, The Savoy, The Sixties, TV Programme, Uncle Fred, Waimea, Waimea Bay, waves, White water, wightsurfhistory, Woodwork, Woodwork Club, woodwork teacher | Comments Off on The Early Days – by Keith Williams
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 coastline or so it felt to this group of friends. The ocean soon became their playground.
Mar 25, 2010 | Categories: The Sixties | Tags: 12ft wooden surfboards, 1960, 1960's, 29 Spring Hill, Archie Trickett, archive, B&W, belly board, belly boards, bellyboard, bellyboards, Biarritz, Bilbo, Bilbo surf shop, Bob Head, Cascades, Colin Burgess, Colin Hicks, compton, Compton Bay, European Championships, France, Freshwater, freshwater bay, Geoff Gardner, Geoff ‘Ned’ Garner, half inch thick wetsuits, history, homemade 12ft wooden surfboards, homemade skateboards, Hutch, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight County Press, Isle of Wight County Press Newspaper, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Joel de Rosnay, John Ainsworth, Kevin Digweed, Lillywhites, Little Stairs, Little Stairs beach, longboard, Mike Hutchinson, Mike ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson, Ned, Newquay, niton, Paint Spot, Pat Morrell, Paul Coleman, people, photo, photographs, portrait, Rod Sumpter, Roger Backhouse, Russell Long, San Diego Surf Championships, Sandown, Skateboard, Skateboarding, skimboard, skimboarding, Steephill, Steephill Cove, stoked, Sue Ellis, surf, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, Ventnor, waves, wetsuit, wetsuits, Wight Water, wightsurfhistory, wooden belly boards, wooden surfboards, woodwork teacher, ‘Old Joe’ | Comments Off on A Surf Club is born