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I'm thinking of taking a trip down memory lane and getting a single fin short board. I'm not getting any younger and a single fin might suit where my surfing is currently going, i.e., longer arching turns rather than sharp snaps. Does anyone know any Sydney-based shapers who have experience making s...

BB wrote:Dappa was riding a 4'10" twin fin and making waves.

Tiny twin fins were also being ridden at Waimea around that time. Dappa may have been the hero of one report I vaguely remember of a 5'2" twinny being tried at the place. I seem to recall that the result was mostly carnage.

Thanks flatrocker, good to hear from someone who remembered the event more clearly than me. It was such a different era back then, and Manly was a real hub. I'll never forget seeing surf films, including Morning of the Earth, at the cinema that used to be on the Corso at South Steyne. Classic stuff....

Media coverage of Kelly Slater's appearance at Deadman's last week and suggestions that is was the best Bower session ever got me to thinking about other legendary sessions out at the Bower. One that sprang immediately to mind was from the early 1970s, during one of the Coke contests they used to ho...