60s

1969-70 Cottesloe Board Club recollections by Ian Brown

Ian Brown was a member of the Cottesloe Board Club in the late 60s.

These are his 1969-70 Cottesloe Board Club recollections: –

I recently found the ‘Constitution ’ of the Cottesloe Board Club tucked inside an old surf book. This version of the Board Club was back in about 1969/70 and was obviously pretty informal as a club. See point 7.2 of constitution below.

 

Image: 1969/70 Constitution of the Cottesloe Board Club courtesy of Ian Brown

Some of the guys in it as I recall were: –

Ian ‘Mitch’ Mitchell

Peter ‘Bruno’ De Bruin

Phil Taylor

Ricky Lobe

Mark & Paul O’Callaghan

Peter ‘Ryno’ Ryan            the organiser.

Earl Quackenbush           Club meetings were held monthly at his place in Peppermint Grove.

Les Wright

Al Fixter

Wes Babel           Wes represented WA in the Aust Titles in 70 or 71….as did Mitch!

 

Other members maybe: –

Peter ‘Rinso’ Wise

Ian & Bruce Hocking

George & Mick Simpson?

David ‘Dappa’ Plaisted?

 

And a few more I can’t think of right now….

 

Images: Cottesloe Board Club members. Ric Chan pics.

Left: 1970 Phil Taylor at Yallingup for State Titles.

Right: 1970s Ian ‘Mitch’ Mitchell at Cottesloe.

Hard to be sure as we didn’t really have contests  – it was more a means of giving the young guys a means of getting to places like Lancelin and Mandurah and sometimes Down South.

I think we had yellow and black tee shirts and maybe a sticker for our boards.

 

Image: 1960s Victor Kailis’s Cottesloe Board Club board shorts. Victor Kailis pic

The last paragraph of the constitution explains why it lasted only a couple of years!

Regards

Ian Brown

 

Ian ‘Mitch’ Mitchell: That’s pretty much as I remember it, except I don’t think George & Mick Simpson and Peter ‘Rinso’ Wise were in the board club at that time!

Thanks for your Cottesloe Board Club recollections Ian and Mitch.

 

Click on this link to view Cottesloe Board Club in the early 1960s published 7 Feb 2018.

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