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They started with just one store on the Goldie..they do have a wide range of almost every bit of surfing kit and the prices are pretty keen..havnt had to return anything so don't know how they arecustomer service wise...but as I say nearly all mainstream labels carried clothing and wetsuit wise.Prob...

17 skis in the water at one stage

Nice Salty..all very much to my liking..there's a lot of area in the base of that fin...or does it just have that illusion

Goddard??? What length..Gotta love a tripe stringer tho..just for the classic look

Thanks..yes I picked up the vee and concave inside the fins..just couldn't see the concave under the nose. Looks nice and be a good fit for ur neck of the woods up to an hour sth of the border

Dims Salty...and plan shape pic be nice..gonna be a 2+1 or single or...

Rodney Ball..he of the "Clear Sea" label ..used to shape for McGrigors when Ian Goodacre and Barry King were there too. He (Rodney) was a ski instructor I think and had some pretty unique designs with keels and interesting parallel tail shapes that mirrored snow skis to some extent.

Yeah my first board was a Wallace too. 7 foot pintail with a thick "pod" , with a double glue up ..an inch apart and a paisley cloth fin too. It had amazing rocker that was almost ridiculous. That was 1967 and it cost me 35 bucks second hand from Bennetts..in their old red brick shop.. before the Di...

Yeah..I watched the Surfabout Contest at the Bower too..i'd jigged school. Was interesting to see how the best in the world rode Winki. I recall Gerry Lopez on his backhand eating it on one take off. But nobody rode Deadmans back then. Barry K actually came to our school and spoke to we stoked groms.

Does look v v noice. The optical illusion of the bottom right pic is weird... but I get it

Ric...there are two things I'm happy about as this post represents..... as others have said...1. there are good folks out there and 2... that you're still around the traps.
More travel on your horizon too...very good for the soul

Shit eh ...yeah even mid week its almost impossible to jag a park - gotta stalk or get lucky. Worth it tho on a day like today

What time were you out ER?. I watched for 30 mins or so at 8-8.30. Was smoking for sure. Saw one of the best barrels from way behind the keyhole - a guy on his backhand ...so deep. Classic morning and only 3 surf schools with 50 odd red shirted leaners in the shallows. Yesterday was good ...but not ...

8.30 - 9.30 was nice. Alley had some long 2 foot (and a bit more) peelers down to Laceys. By 10 the nthly was feathering in across...didn't see it after that. Too low before that at Clubhouse beachie

Yeah Rancho...there was a tick on the Currumbin beachie between 9 and 11 that I was there (and again at 4pm when I wasn't in the water) , so I'm guessing it was similar all over. The wind was tending more south as the day moved towards lunch, so the ruffle was more exaggerated, but that's just being...

Rancho....what time you in the water and were you under the eagle?
I was caught up in that Cooly craziness, but stopped in the shed and watched some peelers

That's a very open, brave and honest piece earlier on Mr Carroll. I often wondered over the previous years whenever the subject was broached in any forum by other members, why/that your opinion was so strident - and short for a man of your wordsmithing capability. Perhaps you've solved that now if i...

Salty...yeah the board turned out fine. As is the case...then things fell apart a tad..and then/now I'm into 7 weeks after a stint at John Flynn with an abdominal op for a hernia, but longer recovery. Am back doing "gentle" recovery now paddling now on a SUP which doesn't stress the belly. Just had ...