Scarborough surfer Greg ‘Pants’ Laurenson designed and shaped surfboards for the Cordingley brothers in Subiaco in the late 60s.
In this post, Greg is displaying his 1968 Cordingley Featherweight single-fin pintail model at Rocky Point WA. Photo courtesy of Greg Woodward.
Greg was arguably the State’s most influential surfboard shaper from the 70s to early 90s.
Sadly, Greg lost a lenghty battle with cancer and passed away March 2007.
1968 Greg Laurenson with his Cordingley Featherweight pintail at Rocky Point WA. Photo Greg Woodward1967 Greg Laurenson surfing Rocky Point WA. Photo Greg Woodward.
In 2017 WA surf photographer Greg Woodward held an exhibition of his beach life photos. The exhibition titled ‘The Dazzling Young Riders’ was held at Nyisztor Studios, 391 Canning Highway Melville/Palmyra from 6-21 May 2017.
To get the required eye focus on his exhibits, Greg Woodward reversed the negative and cropped his ’67 photo of GL at Rocky so the image aligned with a ‘67 photo of Jim King surfing City Beach in a similar pose.
2017 Photographer Greg Woodward with his 1967 GL & Jim King eye focus images at the Exhibition.2007 Surf journo Jordan Marchant’s article in The Sunday Times.
Rest in Peace GL.
Editor’s note: “Pintail surfboards were introduced to WA by former World Champion Midget Farrelly NSW at an Invitational surfing event held at Yallingup in March 1968. Replica pintail boards soon followed in WA.”
1968 Midget Farrelly NSW arriving Perth Airport (via TAA) with his single fin pintail surfboard. Photo courtesy WA Newspapers.
Scarborough surfer Greg ‘Pants’ Laurenson designed and shaped surfboards for the Cordingley brothers in Subiaco in the late 60s.
In this post, Greg is displaying his 1968 Cordingley Featherweight single-fin pintail model at Rocky Point WA. Photo courtesy of Greg Woodward.
Greg was arguably the State’s most influential surfboard shaper from the 70s to early 90s.
Sadly, Greg lost a lenghty battle with cancer and passed away March 2007.
In 2017 WA surf photographer Greg Woodward held an exhibition of his beach life photos. The exhibition titled ‘The Dazzling Young Riders’ was held at Nyisztor Studios, 391 Canning Highway Melville/Palmyra from 6-21 May 2017.
To get the required eye focus on his exhibits, Greg Woodward reversed the negative and cropped his ’67 photo of GL at Rocky so the image aligned with a ‘67 photo of Jim King surfing City Beach in a similar pose.
Rest in Peace GL.
Editor’s note: “Pintail surfboards were introduced to WA by former World Champion Midget Farrelly NSW at an Invitational surfing event held at Yallingup in March 1968. Replica pintail boards soon followed in WA.”
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