Summer ’68
Posted: April 20, 2017 at 7:51 pm
Summer 1968. Wanda Beach. Surfing was the newest craze when this picture was taken. Tim Vanderlaan photo collection.
Posted in 60's
G&S Early 70s Shape
Posted: April 13, 2017 at 5:28 pm
Posted in 70's
Huzza Wuzza
Posted: April 13, 2017 at 5:25 pm
Herbies Logo.
Posted in 80's
Waterforce Spoon
Posted: April 13, 2017 at 5:23 pm
Shaped by Geoff Wakefield.
Posted in 80's
Glen Vickers
Posted: April 2, 2017 at 8:36 am
Glen Vickers sanding boards at Jackson Surfboards in the early 1980’s. Tim Vanderlaan Photo
Posted in 80's
G&S Mal
Posted: April 2, 2017 at 8:33 am
1965/66 Gordon and Smith Mal shaped by Floyd Smith 9ft 6in with Concave.
Posted in 60's
Front Row Seat at Shark Island
Posted: April 2, 2017 at 8:27 am
Shark Island Toilet bowl, front row seat photo courtesy Geoff Snellgrove
Posted in 90's | General | Shark Island
Baron Surfboard
Posted: April 2, 2017 at 8:20 am
Manufactured by the great Geronimo – Ken Beavan – and made under license at Peter Clarke surfboards at Taren Point – at the time I thought that Ken and Peter co-owned the brand. Various shapers over the few years I was associated with the brand – including Frank Latta for a period – but I am pretty certain that the master, Ross Longbottom, would have glassed them. In my time at the Dee Why Surf Shop in Gerrale Street we sold plenty of Baron Surfboards. Our boss was of course a happy boss. We had Baronwear clothing too – the high-waisted thick cord bell bottom pants were a massive seller…. Geronimo put more Sydney guys onto surfboards than anyone I can remember then or since. Whether that was a good thing or a bad thing is yours to decide but he was a truly great bloke. The man who later kicked off McGrigors in Brookvale. Info courtesy of Darrl Sykes
Posted in 70's
Mark Sorensen
Posted: April 2, 2017 at 8:07 am
Mark Sorensen at Cronulla Point in the early 1990’s. Mark runs the Cactus Beach surf shop and still surfs. Tim Vanderlaan Photo
Posted in The Point
Steve Finebeer
Posted: March 30, 2017 at 9:42 am
Steve Austin Feinbeer loved surfing Shark Island and rarely missed those BIG days in the 1990’s. Tim Vanderlaan Photo
Posted in Shark Island