Wayne Roach

Here’s The Roach Approach custom Shape logo for Wayne Roach during his time with Force 9.

G&S Stars Adv.

This 1975 Gordon and Smith advertisement featured the cream of Cronulla surfing. Those  included were the Sandshoes boys like Steve Core, Griffo, Mick Anastas, PT,Reno, Alan Blyth, Ross Longbottom and Bondi’s Robert Conneeley.

The Point 60’s

This photo from the early 60’s of  Billy Penrue and Jacko sharing a ride at The Point. In those early days crowds were not a problem like they are today and surfers actually encouraged one another to ride the same waves.Photo courtesy Del Surfboards.

 

 

 

Steve Griffiths Logo 70’s

Here’s Steve Griffiths custom shapes logo back in his G&S days.

Brian Jackson

Here’s Jacko back in the 60’s behind the broom in the factory. Jacko was a huge player in the development of the sport on the Southside from the very beginning. Photo courtessy Del Surfboards.

Steve Robertson

In the mid 7os surfer Steve Robertson and photographer Bruce Sladden connected at Shark Island resulting in photos printed in Surfing World. These were some of the first Island ridden shots ever run.

 

Gary Birdsall

Gary Birdsall was Cronulla’s first known surf star when pictures of him charging sizeable Cronulla Point began regularily appearing in the media.

Terapi Richmond

Throughout the 90’s and 2000’s decades Terapi Richmond has seen the inside of more Shark Island barrels than probably anyone else. Rarely a swell passes by without  his presence in the lineup making the impossible look easy, and it doesn’t appear he is slowing down anytime soon. 

Huzza Wuzza

The happy smiling face of Richard Herberts logo for his Huzza Wuzza shapes.

 

Larry Cohen ’67

 I first tried surfing when I was about 9 years old on my cousin’s 9ft 6″ Norm Casey D Fin Malibu Gun. When he wasn’t around I would sneak down and drag it out from under their house and drag it down the beach. (He never caught me). I pestered my old man for a board of my own for about 3 years and then in early 1967 he cracked and bought me a 2nd hand Scott Dillon Stringerless V Bottom “Stubby”. Breakthrough !!!!

It was 8ft long by 24 inches wide and I couldn’t even get my arm around it. It was the best thing I had ever had in my entire life. Nothing I owned or wanted could compare with that board, it was like a piece of magic to me. I kept it in my bedroom where I could just look at it anytime. The Vee Bottom was hard to surf on but way better than my cousin’s old Malibu “plank”. It was like an aircraft carrier to stand on, but I learned to trim and turn it. A surf would last about 4 hours in those days.

After about a year (& more pestering) we traded it in on a Jackson 7ft 8″ double ender pintail shaped by Gordon Merchant. The Jacko was noticeably easier to turn, trim and manoeuvre, and it was faster along the walls of those Cronulla Beach sandbank shooters. I could actually get my arm around the pintail to carry it….Larry Cohen