Occy Cover at Blackrock

From a epic photo session on a maxed out day when Occy along with Dog Marsh hit Aussie Pipe with the Surfing World crew, Photo Bruce Channon.

 

 

 

Graham King

Pioneer of surfboard manufacturing Kingy has been around since the early 60s making boards and eventually moved on to blowing blanks and he’s still going strong down at his Kirrawee factory today.

Oregon Redwood Surfboard

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• This solid Oregon redwood, square tailed surfboard features a round nose and an 18 mm hole located at the centre of the tail designed to accommodate a leg rope. A metal strip has been screwed onto the board near the nose to prevent splitting, and the bottom of the board has an unusual ‘v’ plateau. The deck has a series of punch or drill holes, which were added for grip, and two crescent-like grooves acting as hand-grips on either side of the rope hole. The surfboard’s original green insignia has been painted over with the letters ‘EN’, the original owner’s initials. Ernie Newberry was a member of Wander Beach Surf Life Saving Club, and used to drag the heavy board from his home in Cronulla to Wanda Beach.
• Though Australia was first introduced to surfing in the late 19th century by traders and travellers who had passed through Hawaii, the surfing demonstration of Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku at Freshwater Beach in 1914 was a significant moment in Australia’s surfing history. Solid hardwood planks were common on Australian beaches between World War I and World War II, and pre-dated the Australian surfing boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Designs were often similar to the Duke’s 1914 board, which was shaped from sugar pine purchased from Hudson’s Timber Mill in Sydney, and incorporated many of the standard Hawaiian design characteristics. Wooden boards were covered in layers of varnish, oil or shellac to prevent the board from becoming waterlogged. They were finless until the early 1950s, and often featured a brass or copper band or sheet fitted to the nose to prevent the wood from splitting. Redwood was recognised as being tough and durable, though much lighter boards in balsa and plywood were also popular.Info courtesy Trove.

Kneeboarding ’79

May 1979 Kneeboarding was a niche market back in the 70’s, and the George Greenough influence was still strong. Unidentified at the Island. Tim Vanderlaan photo/words.

Summer Lines By Ross Myers

Cronulla Point & The Island 1979. Also including Bells Beach, Sunset Beach, Garie & Jervis Bay. Scenes from the Ross Myers Surfing film “SUMMER LINES”. Photography by Ross Myers, Dave Shaw & Greg Button.

Alastair Waddell

Alastair was a popular figure at Cronulla in the 70’s who ran Midway boardriders and produced a Cronulla based movie called Just Cruising.

 

Puberty Blues ’81

Members of the original cast of Puberty Blues back in 1981 at Wanda.

 

Custom Boards

Who can remember the thrill of picking up your new custom board. Every few days you could pop into the factory to watch it being built.You would always get that first shot of the board without wax. 
Jackson Surfboards and the other local board builders have created plenty of stoke through the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. 
Not sure if the young guys of today feel the same as we did back then , when their imported boards arrive in a box from China!Photo words by Tim Vanderlaan.

 

Glenn Pringle

One of the most successful competition surfers to ever come out of Cronulla and still going strong. Glenn is Elouera Beach born and bred growing up in nearby Bando rd. These shots of Pring taken in the mid 80s show him in his ripping  prime photos Chris Stroh

Jeremy Hrbac

Jezza scores the  Tracks cover with a hell pit at Shark Island in ’94 photo by Jon Frank