Something Incredible Surfboards ’68

Something Incredible Surfboards Logo. 20 Woodfield Boulevade Carringbah Phone : 525-3737 circa 1968. Darrell Eastlake and John Rhodes. Info from Surf Research.

Greeny Surfing World Cover

Surfing World Issue 193 Gary Green scores the cover with his fins on display photo Bruce Channon.

 

Windensea Surf Shop

 Located  at 57 Elouera Road next door to the newsagency, Windensea was a popular shop and brand surf throughout the 70’s  run by Gary Brosner alias Big Gazza. Windensea  manufactured surfing accessories including leg ropes and board covers and employed as well as sponsored plenty of the local groms.  This shop later became the Triple Bull Surf Shop owned by Richard Marsh prior to relocating up to the main shopping centre.

 

G&S Westuits

70’s advertisement for G&S wetsuits. Photo taken outside the factory on Captain Cook Drive at Taren Point.

Alan Doorman.

Alan Doorman better known as Doormouse was one of the early Cronulla Point pioneers. Back  then there was no legropes and duck diving hadnt even been invented. Wipeout and your board was getting mashed on the rocks  or swept out to sea in the Voodoo express. Photo 1961 from Dags Collection.

Norm Casey and the V-Jet Boards

A 1963 Surfabout ad for the Norm Casey V-Jet, tailored especially for discriminating Qantas staff, in transit at Waikiki, suggests that the surfer market was still an unformed and unknown entity, or at least far from the unruly, hooligan image emerging in the tabloid press.  Taren Pt based Norm Casey supplied these boards exclusively for Qantas crew on stop-overs in Hawaii, who stayed at the Ilikai Hotel at Ala Moana, where a stash of boards and the odd Hobie Cat were readily on hand. Courtesy of Surf City Museum and extra info by Steve Core.

Cronulla Surf Shop

Early 70’s double exposed advertisement for Cronulla Surf Shop.

Peter Clarke Surfboards

Advertisement for Peter Clarke Surfboards around ’69.The guy hanging over the back of the train carriage looking at the camera is Glynn Ritchie who was the Shaper at Peter’s Brookvale factory. The boards had dropped to under the 6 foot mark and it was also when Mitchell Raye was learning to shape under Glynn , great days ,great boards… within 6 months they were making full concave boards.

Jim Banks

Jim Banks built a reputation as a fearless reef rider by charging waves like the notorious Shark Island on his backside. During the 70’s and 80’s the Island was regarded as one if not the most feared waves in Oz and the world. Banksy rode the Island as good as any of the natural foots of the time and with his back to the wall he got just as deep. This shot flying out of the bowl ran in Waves magazine around ’83.

 

Pottz Surfboards by Stewart D’Arcy

When Martin Potter was on his first tour as a rookie the D’Arcy clan took him under their wing when the South African aerial pioneer was in Cronulla. Years later Stewart began shaping and manufacturing Pottz boards at Taren Pt throughout  the 90’s. Here’s an adv. from that time period.