Gopher

Darren “Gopher” Watkins was the hot grom everyone was talking about back in the day.This pic was taken around mid 80’s carving up a micro shorey at Elouera Photo Stroh

Frank Latta Adv.

Here’s a Frank Latta advertisement from ’89.

70’s Crew

Here’s a few of the 70’s Cronulla boys, pics were taken by Rob King. Brad Nelson from Southern Comfort. Steve Boris Cronulla Point.Jim Parkinson shaper extroidinare barrel at Wanda. Greg Nash one of the Southern Comfort crew scores a clean barrel

Roach Approach

Here’s Wayne Roach’s surfboard label called  “Roach Approach”  advertisement from ’93 featuring the charismatic life of the party local identity Shane Moran mid backside float.

Gerry “Popout” Manion

      Everyone who surfs the Island regularily takes a pounding, even Kelly Slater. Its the nature of the wave, some are perfect barrels and others are mutant ledging beasts that rip boards out from under the most experienced. Guess thats why when you make a gaping tube out there the rush is better than anything. One of the most experienced and go for it chargers in the 70’s and early 80’s was Popout. Gerry was fearless taking on anything the ocean would throw at him. This pic appeared in Surfing Mag in 1980 taken by local photo legend Dave Shaw showing Popout about to cop a solid thrashing on the unforgiving reef.

Stuart Gooch

Gooch is one of those natural talented surfers who could have taken his surfing much further had he wanted to. In ’91 he was EBC Club champion then in ’92 and ’95 he was CBC Open Champ. Also in ’91 Gooch entered the history books winning the Alley Masters event. Instead of chasing the Pro dream Gooch saved his best for his free surfing sessions along the beachies at home. Today Gooch is still ripping just as hard as always. Water angle  photo Craig Stroh late 90’s.

Len Thick

In 1993 Tracks ran a feature on Len Thick who at 75 years of age was described as Cronulla’s oldest grom. Len was a common site at Cronulla surfing his mal at The Point or up the beach on a daily basis easily recognisable by his white hat. Len began surfing in the 60’s at age 45 and has rarely missed a day when these images were taken. Photos by John Veage.

Vote Dylan Hannah

 

Local Cronulla ripper Dylan Hannah needs your vote in the Jim Beam /The Break video contest. Its his chance to win $50,000 and to go on the WQS. Dylan does flips, reverses and charges hard and the footage is by Craig Stroh. If you vote your in the running to win prizes as well. You can only vote once a day for a week.So help Dylan and Craig win.Vote here.

http://www.jimbeamthebreak.com.au/profiles/dylan-hannah

Board Logos

Heres two logos from the past Peter Clarke Surfboards circa late 60s and early 70s version. And Southern Comfort ’74 style.

Young Murph.

Andrew Murphy when he was just starting to make a name for himself, riding for Rip Curl, Jim Banks boards and Bite clothing pic Stroh early 80’s.