Pygs Fly surfboards are handmade by Darryl Wilkes in Singleton, WA under the Leading Edge surfboards brand. Active in the surf industry since the mid-1970s, Darryl shaped boards for Morning Mist in the late 70s & 80s and has worked at Blaxell and Murray Smith Surfboards. He also designs windsurfers and innovative surfboard fins. Darryl is the Managing Director at Leading Edge Surfboards Pty Ltd.
1970-80s Morning Mist Surfboard shapes by Darryl Wilkes. Decal image courtesy of John (Nat) Neeson.
2025 Pygs Fly & Wilkes surfboard decal. Photo Jim King.
2025 Leading Edge Australia surfboard decal. Photo Jim King.
Keaton’s Pygs Fly surfboard
In 2003, Keaton Martino, the stepson of Yallingup’s Rich Myer, acquired a second hand Pygs Fly Leading Edge surfboard crafted by Darryl Wilkes at Scarborough. The board measured 6ft 4” x 20” x 3 1/8” and was purchased for $150.
The board has an elliptical shape (rounded tail & raised platypus nose) with a full double concave and green tint. It has a twin/tri fin configuration.
2024 Bali. Keaton with Pygs Fly surfboard at Seminyak. Keaton pic.
Keaton Martino. “I purchased the Pygs Fly board in Scarborough year 2003 and surfed it around Trigg and Scarbs and also down south. I was in my 2nd year at University in Perth.
The board came with me to Yogyakarta when I studied at University of Gadjah Mada in 2004 to 2005 where I would take it to surf trips to West Java and surfed Batu Keras and surf trips to East Java and surfed Pacitan.
Then had the epic surf at Point Picquet and Meelup it was winter 2006. (See article below)
Then I moved permanently to Bali in August 2006 and moved back to Australia in April 2025.”
2006 Winter Waves Geographe Bay. Article courtesy John Stratton Busselton Times Pt 2.
Keaton lived in Bali for 20 years and surfed the Pygs Fly board at Kuta, Legian, Seminyak and Uluwatu with the Bali locals.
2023 Bali. Keaton surfing the Pygs Fly board at Uluwatu #1. Rich Family pic.
2023 Bali. Keaton Martino surfing the Pygs Fly board at Uluwatu #2. Rich family pic.
Pygs Fly story by Rich Myers (Yallingup WA)
Rich Myers. “This is a story about The Good and the Ugly, The Beauty and the Beast, it is a story of, “if it works, don’t try to fix it,” This is a story about Keaton and his Pygs Fly surfboard.
The Pyg is the only board Keaton has surfed for the past 25 years, and he politely declined using a new modern updated surfboard I gave him (which is still hanging in the rack 4 years on unridden). The Pyg has many dings and open sores, but Keaton never bothered to fix them and continued to surf it waterlogged until and it exceeded its original weight by 3 to 4 times. And he still managed to ride it well and more importantly look like he was having more fun than anyone! Sometimes he would lose a fin or two and ride it as a twinnie or one side fin and back fin or just one back fin.
When we came as a family to visit Keaton in Bali. his brothers Dan Waddell, Chad, Reif and Ry Myers and I (Brady Bunch down under Family) all gave the Pyg a go and Dan was surprised how much fun and how loose it went, and all the boys agreed!
Keaton recently made a career move to Canberra and had to sadly leave his beloved Pyg in Bali where Reif picked it up and brought it back home to Dunsborough to put it in the MOseam, but now that the board has dried out and is light weight again, I am going to just seal and watertight the board, keep the “Cryovac” sucked concaves, bumps, tumours, warps and ugly because the Pyg still seems to surf its magic despite its look. I plan to have it ready for Keaton when he comes to visit in September 2025.”
2025 Rich Myers with the Pygs Fly board at Yallingup (deck view). Photo Jim King.
2025 Rich Myers with the Pygs Fly board at Yallingup (bottom view). Photo Jim King.
2025 Rich Myers looking at the platypus Nose on the Pygs Fly board at Yallingup. Photo Jim King.
Pygs Fly surfboards are handmade by Darryl Wilkes in Singleton, WA under the Leading Edge surfboards brand. Active in the surf industry since the mid-1970s, Darryl shaped boards for Morning Mist in the late 70s & 80s and has worked at Blaxell and Murray Smith Surfboards. He also designs windsurfers and innovative surfboard fins. Darryl is the Managing Director at Leading Edge Surfboards Pty Ltd.
1970-80s Morning Mist Surfboard shapes by Darryl Wilkes. Decal image courtesy of John (Nat) Neeson.
2025 Pygs Fly & Wilkes surfboard decal. Photo Jim King.
2025 Leading Edge Australia surfboard decal. Photo Jim King.
Keaton’s Pygs Fly surfboard
In 2003, Keaton Martino, the stepson of Yallingup’s Rich Myer, acquired a second hand Pygs Fly Leading Edge surfboard crafted by Darryl Wilkes at Scarborough. The board measured 6ft 4” x 20” x 3 1/8” and was purchased for $150.
The board has an elliptical shape (rounded tail & raised platypus nose) with a full double concave and green tint. It has a twin/tri fin configuration.
2024 Bali. Keaton with Pygs Fly surfboard at Seminyak. Keaton pic.
Keaton Martino. “I purchased the Pygs Fly board in Scarborough year 2003 and surfed it around Trigg and Scarbs and also down south. I was in my 2nd year at University in Perth.
The board came with me to Yogyakarta when I studied at University of Gadjah Mada in 2004 to 2005 where I would take it to surf trips to West Java and surfed Batu Keras and surf trips to East Java and surfed Pacitan.
Then had the epic surf at Point Picquet and Meelup it was winter 2006. (See article below)
Then I moved permanently to Bali in August 2006 and moved back to Australia in April 2025.”
2006 Winter Waves Geographe Bay. Article courtesy John Stratton Busselton Times Pt 1.
2006 Winter Waves Geographe Bay. Article courtesy John Stratton Busselton Times Pt 2.
Keaton lived in Bali for 20 years and surfed the Pygs Fly board at Kuta, Legian, Seminyak and Uluwatu with the Bali locals.
2023 Bali. Keaton surfing the Pygs Fly board at Uluwatu #1. Rich Family pic.
2023 Bali. Keaton Martino surfing the Pygs Fly board at Uluwatu #2. Rich family pic.
Pygs Fly story by Rich Myers (Yallingup WA)
Rich Myers. “This is a story about The Good and the Ugly, The Beauty and the Beast, it is a story of, “if it works, don’t try to fix it,” This is a story about Keaton and his Pygs Fly surfboard.
The Pyg is the only board Keaton has surfed for the past 25 years, and he politely declined using a new modern updated surfboard I gave him (which is still hanging in the rack 4 years on unridden). The Pyg has many dings and open sores, but Keaton never bothered to fix them and continued to surf it waterlogged until and it exceeded its original weight by 3 to 4 times. And he still managed to ride it well and more importantly look like he was having more fun than anyone! Sometimes he would lose a fin or two and ride it as a twinnie or one side fin and back fin or just one back fin.
When we came as a family to visit Keaton in Bali. his brothers Dan Waddell, Chad, Reif and Ry Myers and I (Brady Bunch down under Family) all gave the Pyg a go and Dan was surprised how much fun and how loose it went, and all the boys agreed!
Keaton recently made a career move to Canberra and had to sadly leave his beloved Pyg in Bali where Reif picked it up and brought it back home to Dunsborough to put it in the MOseam, but now that the board has dried out and is light weight again, I am going to just seal and watertight the board, keep the “Cryovac” sucked concaves, bumps, tumours, warps and ugly because the Pyg still seems to surf its magic despite its look. I plan to have it ready for Keaton when he comes to visit in September 2025.”
2025 Rich Myers with the Pygs Fly board at Yallingup (deck view). Photo Jim King.
2025 Rich Myers with the Pygs Fly board at Yallingup (bottom view). Photo Jim King.
2025 Rich Myers looking at the platypus Nose on the Pygs Fly board at Yallingup. Photo Jim King.
Good luck with the restoration Rich.
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