Flashback to the 1960s. A time when WA Board Clubs were in vogue and club members surfed and socialised together in club colours.
Members competed in Intra & Inter Club contests and State Titles run by the West Australian Surf Rider Association (WASRA incorporated 1964). You had to be a board club member to participate in the events.
1968 WASRA Spring Titles Program listing competitors and Board Clubs.
Collection of social Board Club photos from the 60s.
1961 North End Board Club at Scarborough. Photo courtesy Murray Smith L-R M Darcy, J Pinch, unknown, Murray Smith, Geoff Culmsee & Gary Granery.
In 1963 Cottesloe surfers Tina Daly, Jeanne Abbott & Stefanie Meyers were members of the West Girls Board Club, WA’s first female Board Club. The girls competed in the first State Titles held at Yallingup in 1964.
1963 West Girls Board Club members at Cottesloe. Stef Meyer Tina Daly & Jeanne Abbott (RIP). Media image courtesy of WA Newspapers.1964 Foundation members Miami Surfboard Club. Photo Tom Collins. L-R Alan-Nicholson, Wayne-Huxley (RIP), Hilton Bros Alan (top) & Derek (bottom).
Ashley Jones. “Kim ‘Dish’ Standish, from Yallingup Board Club mocked us Cottesloe Board Club members, constantly calling us the Canaries, because of our Yellow Parkas and board shorts, he did it with a high pitch, birdlike squeal.”
1964 Cottesloe Board Riders Club members Ashley Jones and Theo Mathews with repaired surfboard at Mosman Park. Photo courtesy Theo Mathews.1964 Southside Board Club at Rocky Point. Photo courtesy of Bill Mitchell L-R Bill Mitchell, unknown, Russell Green, Bill McDonald & Peter Oliver.1964-65 Mid Way Board Club’s Arty Sherburn with his Dibben & Cole surfboard & home-made Mid Way Board Club wettie. Photos courtesy of Arty Sherburn.1960s Yallingup Board Club members with Peter Dyson’s Kombi at club shack Caves House Yalls. Photo Peter Dyson L-R Peter Dyson (RIP), Kim ‘Dish’ Standish, Kevin Ager, Guy Laylor, Michael Bibby and two unidentified lads.1966 Warrain Board Club members unloading Malibu boards at Cape Naturaliste. Photo Colleen Burke1966 City Beach lads hanging outside City Beach Tea Rooms/ Post Office. Photo Norm Bateman L-R Kevin O’Dwyer (RIP), Jim King, Phil Henderson, Brian Brown (RIP), Bruce King & Alan Cleaver (RIP). Person in front unidentified.
Ian Mitchell. “In 1966 at age 14, I got my first ever surfboard.It was an 8’11” Cordingley from 329 Hay Street Subiaco and cost $88.I was concerned it was too short and would spin out
My Cottesloe surfing mate Phil Taylor had a 9ft surfboard.
My mother bought me a parka and matching boardies, which you normally only had if you were in a board club – this was a particularly exclusive board club, as I was the only member! Phil Taylor, Ricky Lobe, George Simpson and Ducky Dermer gave me shit for having a parka and matching boardies and not being in a board club!
Michael Bibby was my neighbour in Cottesloe. He was older than me and a member of the Cottesloe Board Club and then Yallingup Board Club. And a bloody good surfer”
1966 Mitch with his new Cordingley surfboard and ‘no name‘ board club boardies in Cottesloe backyard.He was recruited by Tarni Board Club in 1966 and later joined the reformed Cottesloe Board Club. Photo Mitch.1967 Southern Surfriders members in Club shack at Prevelly Park Margaret River. Photographer unknown.1966 Tarni Board Club President Howard Smith (standing with pipe) at Scarborough social with Barbara Lewis, Kim Woods and others. Photo Colleen Burke.
Bill Gibson. “In 1969 I joined the Dolphins Surf Riders Club as a cadet at age 14 with Tommie Blaxell, Trevor Kenyon, Jim McFarlane, Ray Nelmes, Kevin Merifield and a few of the guys that hung out at the White Sands pub in Scarborough.”
Early 1970s Dolphins Surf Riders cadet Bill Gibson with single fin boards at Scarborough beach. Bill Gibson pic.
1969 Sand & Sea President Craig Brent-White on Harley Davidson at Yallingup. Photo courtesy Craig Bent-White.
1969 Scarborough Board Club meeting with Gavin McCaughey and othersin backyard Scarb. Photo Brian Trainer
North Coast Surf Riders Club was formed by ex Scarborough surfers Robin ‘Skullcap’ Sutherland, Greg ‘Pants’ Laurenson and Mike Wynne in 1969.
Errol Considine. “My brother Jeff was the first President of the Club… and he designed the first club logo & cut the silk screen at home for the t-shirts – which were chocolate brown with an orange logo….both very cool colours then. I think Jeff & Gooselegs came up with the ‘69’ thing – naughty boyz!
I remember one North Coast Club comp on a Sunday at Halls Head with perfect 1-2 foot long left handers….it was a big swell and Southerly wind…and bloody freezing – that was before they built the groynes at the nearby mouth of the Mandurah estuary….have never seen waves at Halls Head again!!– Place getters Mike Wynne 1st and Bob Monkman 2nd.
Russell Quinliven, from Scarborough was a Junior member….I remember the boys got Russell (who was about 12 or 13, or maybe 14) really drunk at a club Sunday arvo keg….we took him home to Scarborough in Jeff’s Mini and kicked him out near Luna Park😊.”
Early 1970s North Coast Board Club member Russell Quinlivan at Trigg Point. Photo courtesy Peta Quinlivan.RIP Russell.
Industry Surf Teams
In the 60’s WA surfboard manufacturers introduced their own Surf Teams for promotion and surf equipment testing purposes.
Early 1960s Cordingley Surf Team board shorts and parka on display at the WA Surf Gallery.Items on loan to Gallery from Dave Ellis & Tony Harbison.1965 Len Dibben surf team at Leighton Beach. Photo Len Dibben L-R Rod Slater, Dave Richards, Jeff Jowlett, Steve Farbus, Teena Christon, Peter Stephens, Art Sherburn & Doug White1967 Jacko Surf Team at Cottesloe Beach. Photo Rod Taylor L-R John Jakovich, Ian Cairns & Arty SherburnLate 1960s Hawke Surf Team and sew on Surf Team logo (right). Images courtesy Hawke Surfboards. L-R Murray Smith, Doug Lacklison & Tony Harrison.
The beach scene changed in the late 60s and early 70s when surfers left the Club culture seeking solitude free surfing remote surf breaks down south and up north.
The 2000s has seen a resurgence in board club activities and surf contests at Club, State and National levels are popular again. 😊
City Beach Surf Riders Inc was founded in 1961 and is still operating today! It is one of the oldest board riders’ clubs in Australia.
Flashback to the 1960s. A time when WA Board Clubs were in vogue and club members surfed and socialised together in club colours.
Members competed in Intra & Inter Club contests and State Titles run by the West Australian Surf Rider Association (WASRA incorporated 1964). You had to be a board club member to participate in the events.
Collection of social Board Club photos from the 60s.
L-R M Darcy, J Pinch, unknown, Murray Smith, Geoff Culmsee & Gary Granery.
In 1963 Cottesloe surfers Tina Daly, Jeanne Abbott & Stefanie Meyers were members of the West Girls Board Club, WA’s first female Board Club. The girls competed in the first State Titles held at Yallingup in 1964.
L-R Alan-Nicholson, Wayne-Huxley (RIP), Hilton Bros Alan (top) & Derek (bottom).
Ashley Jones. “Kim ‘Dish’ Standish, from Yallingup Board Club mocked us Cottesloe Board Club members, constantly calling us the Canaries, because of our Yellow Parkas and board shorts, he did it with a high pitch, birdlike squeal.”
L-R Bill Mitchell, unknown, Russell Green, Bill McDonald & Peter Oliver.
L-R Peter Dyson (RIP), Kim ‘Dish’ Standish, Kevin Ager, Guy Laylor, Michael Bibby and two unidentified lads.
L-R Kevin O’Dwyer (RIP), Jim King, Phil Henderson, Brian Brown (RIP), Bruce King & Alan Cleaver (RIP). Person in front unidentified.
Ian Mitchell. “In 1966 at age 14, I got my first ever surfboard. It was an 8’11” Cordingley from 329 Hay Street Subiaco and cost $88. I was concerned it was too short and would spin out
My Cottesloe surfing mate Phil Taylor had a 9ft surfboard.
My mother bought me a parka and matching boardies, which you normally only had if you were in a board club – this was a particularly exclusive board club, as I was the only member! Phil Taylor, Ricky Lobe, George Simpson and Ducky Dermer gave me shit for having a parka and matching boardies and not being in a board club!
Michael Bibby was my neighbour in Cottesloe. He was older than me and a member of the Cottesloe Board Club and then Yallingup Board Club. And a bloody good surfer”
Bill Gibson. “In 1969 I joined the Dolphins Surf Riders Club as a cadet at age 14 with Tommie Blaxell, Trevor Kenyon, Jim McFarlane, Ray Nelmes, Kevin Merifield and a few of the guys that hung out at the White Sands pub in Scarborough.”
1969 Sand & Sea President Craig Brent-White on Harley Davidson at Yallingup. Photo courtesy Craig Bent-White.
North Coast Surf Riders Club was formed by ex Scarborough surfers Robin ‘Skullcap’ Sutherland, Greg ‘Pants’ Laurenson and Mike Wynne in 1969.
Errol Considine. “My brother Jeff was the first President of the Club… and he designed the first club logo & cut the silk screen at home for the t-shirts – which were chocolate brown with an orange logo….both very cool colours then. I think Jeff & Gooselegs came up with the ‘69’ thing – naughty boyz!
I remember one North Coast Club comp on a Sunday at Halls Head with perfect 1-2 foot long left handers….it was a big swell and Southerly wind…and bloody freezing – that was before they built the groynes at the nearby mouth of the Mandurah estuary….have never seen waves at Halls Head again!!– Place getters Mike Wynne 1st and Bob Monkman 2nd.
Russell Quinliven, from Scarborough was a Junior member….I remember the boys got Russell (who was about 12 or 13, or maybe 14) really drunk at a club Sunday arvo keg….we took him home to Scarborough in Jeff’s Mini and kicked him out near Luna Park😊.”
Industry Surf Teams
In the 60’s WA surfboard manufacturers introduced their own Surf Teams for promotion and surf equipment testing purposes.
L-R Rod Slater, Dave Richards, Jeff Jowlett, Steve Farbus, Teena Christon, Peter Stephens, Art Sherburn & Doug White
L-R John Jakovich, Ian Cairns & Arty Sherburn
L-R Murray Smith, Doug Lacklison & Tony Harrison.
The beach scene changed in the late 60s and early 70s when surfers left the Club culture seeking solitude free surfing remote surf breaks down south and up north.
The 2000s has seen a resurgence in board club activities and surf contests at Club, State and National levels are popular again. 😊
City Beach Surf Riders Inc was founded in 1961 and is still operating today! It is one of the oldest board riders’ clubs in Australia.
Related Content
1960s WA Board Clubs – Part #1 History posted 12 October 2016
1960s WA Board Clubs – Part #2 Photo Galleries posted 15 October 2016
1960s Board Club memorabilia posted 9 Oct 2019
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