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circa
800 BC Homer : Odysseus Survives a Shipwreck.
Extract from The
Odyssey Chapter 5 Verses 365 to 463.
circa 60 Luke : St.
Paul's Bay, Malta.
Extract from The
Bible, The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 27 Verses 41 to 44,
page 190.
1515
Leonardo da Vinci : Hydrodynamics
Extracts from
1765 John Byron : Tuamotus
and the Gilbert Islands
Extracts from Byron
in Hawkesworth: Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, (1773), Volume
1?
1767 Captain Wallis :Tahiti
Extracts from Wallis
in Hawkesworth: Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, (1773), Volume
1?
1768
Louis Antoine de Bougainville : Surfriding
in Tahiti.
Possibly the first
European report of surf-riding. See Roussel,
2005.
1769 Joseph Banks : Surfriding
in Tahiti.
One of the earliest
European reports of surf-riding. Originally recorded on 29th May
1769, published in 1773.
1769 Sydney Parkinson :Tahiti.
Extracts from
Journal of a Voyage to South Seas, Stanfield Parkinson, London 1773.
1777
William Anderson : Canoe
Surfriding in Tahiti.
Canoe surfriding
recorded by from a surgeon on Cook's third Pacific voyage, 1776 to 1780.
1778
James Cook's Marineers : Hawai'i.
Accounts of surfboards
from Cook's first visit to Hawai'i in 1778.
1779
James King and Marineers : Hawai'i.
Accounts of surfboards
and surf-riding from Cook's final visit to Hawai'i in 1779.
1785 George Keate : Swimming
in the Pelew Islands.
Extract from An
Account of the Pelew Islands, G. Nicol, Pall Mall, London May 1st,
1788.
1788
William Bligh : Surfriding in Tahiti
Extracts from Bowker,
R.M. and Bligh, Lt. William: Mutiny!! Aboard HM Armed Transport 'Bounty'
in 1789 Bowker and Bertram Ltd. Old Bosham, Sussex, England 1978.
1788
James Morrison : Surfriding in Tahiti
Extracted from Journal
on HMS Bounty and at Tahiti, 1787-1792
Mitchell Library,
Sydney.- A detailed account of surfriding in Tahiti.
1788
William Bradley :
Eora (Aboriginal) Canoes at Spring Cove.
Extract from The
Ladies Kept Their Distance, in
Tim Flannery : The
Birth of Sydney.
Pages 54 to 55.
1792 George Tobin : Surfriding
in Tahiti
Extracts from
Journal on HMS Providence, 1791-1793
State Library
of New South Wales 2003 1792
1800 James Wilson: Surfriding
in Tahiti
Extracts from A
Missionary voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, Performed in the Years
1796, 1797, 1798. 1799, in the Ship Duff ...
T. Chapman, 1799.
(1813). Pages 72-73.
1821 Dr David Ramsay : Surfriding
on Pitcairn Island.
Extracts from Clarke,
Peter: Hell and Paradise: the Norfolk - Bounty - Pitcairn Saga.
Viking, Penguin Books Australia Ltd.,
1986, pages 91, 92, 94, 99, 111, and 145.
1821 Hiram Bingham : Surfriding.
Extracts from A
Residence Of Twenty-one Years In The Sandwich Islands, Or, The Civil, Religious,
And Political History Of Those Islands.
Hezekiah Huntington,
Hartford CT;1847 Chapter VI: 1821 Pages 136 and 137.
1824
Charles Stewart : Surf-riding
at Lahaina, Maui.
Extracted from Journal
of Residence in the Sandwich Islands, 1924 - 1925.
Fisher, Son and
Jackson, London, 1829. Pages 196 to 197.
1825 Lord Byron: Liliah
and Floatboards.
Extracted from Voyage
of the 'H.M.S. Blonde' to the Sandwich Islands in the Years 1825-26.
John Murray, Albemable
Street, London. 1826. Pages 97, 137 and 138, 166, 206 to 209.
1828 Teuira Henry : Surfriding,
Swimming and Diving in Tahiti.
Extract from Ancient
Tahiti, Bernice P. Bishop Mueseum, Honolulu, Hawaii, ,
Bulletin 48. Based
on material collected by J. M. Orsmond.
1830
Rev.William Ellis : Surf-riding
in the Society and Sandwich Islands.
Extracts from Polynesian
Researches
Fisher, Son and
Jackson, London, 1831. Volume IV Pages 368 to 372.
1834 J. A.Moerenhout : Surfriding
in Tahiti.
Extracts from Travels
to the Islands of the Pacific Ocean,
4720 Boston Way,
Lanham, Maryland, 0706, 1993. Original French edition 1837.
1838 David Malo : Surfriding.
Extracts from
Hawaiian
Antiquities
1840 R.H. Dana: Hawaiians
in California.
Extracts from Two Years Before the
Mast, Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1947. First published in 1840.
1843
James Jarves: Hawaiian History
Extracts from History
of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands
James Munroe and
Company, 134 Washington-Street, Boston.1843.
1843 Sheldon Dibble:
Hawaiian Water Sports
Extracted from History
of the Sandwich Islands.
Press of the Mission
Seminary, Lahainaluna,1843.
1845 P.H. Gosse: The
Ocean
Extracts from The
Ocean
Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, London 1845.
1847 George Angas: New
Zealand Canoes.
Extracted from Savage
Life And Scenes In Australia And New Zealand.
Smith, Elder and
Co., London, 1847.
1849 Herman Melville: Rare
Sport at Ohonoo.
Extract from Mardi
and A Voyage Thither.
Richard Bentley,
London, 1849. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1849.
Chapter XC, pages
325 to 237 (?).
1850 Lt. Henry Wise:
Surfriding at Lahaina
Extract from Los
Gringos: or An inside view of Mexico and California with wanderings in
Peru, Chile and
Polynesia.
Baker & Scribner,1850,
Chapter XLI, pages 352 to 354.
1851 Rev. Cheever : Surfriding
at Lahaini.
Extracted from Life
in the Sandwich Islands, or the Heart of the Pacific, as it was and as
it is.
A.S. Barnes and
Co., New York and H.W. Derby, Cincinnati. 1856. Pages 66 to 69.
1852 Mrs E.M. Parker : Surfriding
at Waikiki.
Extract from The
Sandwich Islands as they are, not as they should be.
Burgess, Gilbert
& Still, San Francisco, 1852. Page 15.
1854 Edward Perkins :
Surfriding at Keauha.
Extracts from Na
Motu: Or, Reef-rovings in the South Seas.
Pudney & Russell,
New York, 1854.
1855 George Colvocoresses : Surfriding
in Hawaii.
Extracts
from Four years in the government exploring expedition.
J. M. Fairchild
& Co., New York, 1855.
1857 Charles Scammon: Rescue
at Scammon's Lagoon.
Extract from The
Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of America.
John H. Carmany and Company, San Francisco,
and G.P. Putman's Sons, New York, 1874.
1858 R.M. Ballantyne: Coral
Island Surfing.
Extracts from The
Coral Island.
Originally published by T. Nelson and
Sons, London, 1858.
1859 Thomas Warren : Dust
and Foam in Hawaii.
Extract from Dust
and foam; or, Three oceans and two continents.
C. Scribner, New
York, 1859.
1864
Charles Stoddard : Surfriding in
Maui.
Extract from Summer
Cruising in the South Seas.
Chatto and Windus,
London. 1874. Pages
1865 H. Willis Baxley : Wakiki
and Hilo.
Extract from What
I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian
islands.
D. Appleton &
Company, 1865.
1867
Charles Steedman: Native Swimming,
Wave Mechanics and Surfboards
Extract from Manual
of Swimming:
Henry Tolman Dwight,
Bourke Street, Melbourne. Lockwood and Co, London. 1867
Pages 44, 193, 194,
264 to 269.
1870 John Papa Il : Board,
Canoe and Body Surfriding, Diving.
Extracts from
Fragments of Hawaiian History
Bernice P. Bishop
Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawaii. 968117.
Pages 6, 7-8, 20,
50-51, 55, 63, 64-66, 67, 69, 72, 82, 95,107,109, 110, 132 to 137, and157-158.
1871 Samuel Kamakua : Ruling
Chiefs of Hawai.
Extracts from The
Kamehameha Schools Press, Honolulu, 1961.
1873
Isabella L. Bird : Surfriding
at Waikiki, Hilo and Kauai.
Extracts from
Six
Months in the Sandwich Isles
John Murray, London,
1875. Pages 14, 36-37, 69-70, 203, 281-282.
1873
Charles Nordhoff : Surfriding
at Hilo.
Extracted from
Northern California, Oregon and the Sandwich Islands
Harpers and Brothers,
New York, 1874. Pages ?
1874
Charles de Varigny : Jeux
Havaiens (Hawaiians Playing).
Extracted from "Voyage
Aux Iles Sandwich (Iles Havai)"
Le Tour du Monde
Volume II, 1873, Pages 224, 237and 238.
1878
John Caton : Surfriding
at Hilo.
Extracted from Miscellanies
Houghton, Osgood & Co. Boston. 1880 Pages 242 to 244.
1880
Rev. John Wood : Uncivilized
Races, 1880.
Extract from The
Uncivilized Races of Men in all Countries of the World
G. Routledge and
Sons, London. 1868-80 2 Vol.Pages 168 to169.
1883 C. F. Gordon Cumming: Surfriding
at Hilo.
Extracts from Fire
Fountains : The Kingdom Of Hawaii; Its Volcanoes And The History Of Its
Missions.
William Blackwood
and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1883, Volume 1, pages 99 to 105.
1885 James Greenwood (quoting Rev. Ellis) : Surfriding
on Huhaine, 1824/1885.
Extract from The
Wildman at Home: or, Pictures of Life in Savage Lands
Ward, Lock, and
Co., Warwick House, Dorset Buildings, Salsbury Square, E.C. circa 1885.
Page 110.
One (1) illustration,
page 96. Woodcut and design by Harden S. Melville. Engraved by Newsom Woods.
1888 Thomas W. Knox :
Surfriding at Hilo, 1888.
Extracts from The
Boy Travellers in Australasia, pages 31 - 33.
1896
Thrum* : Hawaiian
Surfriding.
Extracted from Thrum,
Thomas G (editor) : Thrum's Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1896.
Honolulu, 1986.
pages 106 - 113.
1898 Lucien Young :The
Real Hawaii, 1898.
Extracts from The
Real Hawaii Doubleday & McClure Co., New York.1898 Pages. 85 -
86
circa
1890 Waverly Borough :
Daylight Swimming Ban.
Waverly Shire By-Laws,
circa 1890, with hand written annotations, includes By-law 25 that
prohibits bathing
between 8 am and 6 pm in Bondi Bay, Nelson Bay and Little Nelson Bay.
Reproduced in Maxwell,
page 16
1891 Henry Adams : Demise
of Hawaiian and Tahitian Surfriding.
Extracts from Letters
of Henry Adams, Volume 1.
Houghton Mifflin
Company, Boston and New York, 1930.
1902 J. A. Jarvis : The
Trudgen Stroke.
Extracts from The Art of Swimming,
Hutchinson and Co., Paternoster Row, London, 1902.
1906-1912 Sydney Newspapers : Swimming
and Surfriding.
Extracts from The Daily Telegraph,
Evening News, Sydney, 1906-1912.
1907 Phil Harris : Surf-Bathing
in NSW.
Extract from The
Red Funnel, Dunedin, New Zealand.Volume V, Number 1, August 1907, pages
1 to 7.
1908 Manly SLSC : Carnival
Program.
Extracts from the
Offical
Programme, Saturday 25th January 1908 at South Steyne, Manly.
1908 North Steyne SLSC : Carnival
Program.
Extracts from the
Offical
Programme, Saturday 28th March 1908 at North Steyne, Manly.
1908
C.D.P. : Sun-Baking, Surf-Bathing,
and Camp Life in NSW.
Extract from The
Red Funnel, Dunedin, New Zealand.Volume VI, Number 3, April 1908, pages
268 to 271.
1908 Alexander Hume Ford : Beach
Culture in Sydney, Australia.
Extract from The
Red Funnel, Dunedin, New Zealand.Volume VI, Number 5, June 1908, pages
466 to 470.
1908-1910 Jack London :
Aloha Oe.
Extracts from The
Lone Hand, Volume ?, Number ?, Sydney, N.S.W., August15 1910, pages
35 to 37.
1909 Rev. Fox : Oceanic
Comparatives.
Extracts from Transactions
and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961.
Volume 42, Art.
I, 1909.
1910 Egbert T. Russell : Australia's
Amphibians.
Extracts from The
Lone Hand, January 1, 1910.
1910 Arthur H. Adams : Galahad
Jones Goes Surfing.
Extracts from The
Lone Hand, February 1, 1910.
1910
Harold Baker : Surf Bathing.
Extracted from "Snowy"
Baker: General Physical Culture.
Melbourne. G.Robertson
& Co., 1910. Pages 54 to 61.
1910 Australian Country Life : Newcastle
Beach.
Extracts from Volume
?, Number ?, November 15, 1910.
1910 New South Wales Surf Bathing Association.:
Combined
Surf Carnival Souvenir Programme
North Steyne,
Manly, 22nd October 1910. (Extracts)
1910-1911 New South Wales Surf Bathing Association.:
NSW
Surf Bather's Guide.
Published by L.
W. Abel, Hon. Secretary, Surf Bathing Association of N.S.W.
Sports Club, Ltd.,
Hunter Street Sydney, Season 1910-1911. (Extracts)
1911 Percy Hunter : July
Skiing in Australia.
Extracts from The
Mid Pacific Magazine, January, 1911.
1911 Norman Lindsay : The
Recipe for Rubber - A Romance of the South Pacific.
Extracts from The
Lone Hand, June 1, 1911 (serialised fiction with illustrations by Norman
Lindsay).
1911 Australian Country Life : Marvellous
Manly.
Extracts from Volume
VII, Number 6, December 15, 1911.
1911 North Steyne SB&LS Club:
Surf
Carnival Programme.
Manly Beach, Saturday,
December 30th, 1911.
1912 Manly Life Saving Club: Surf
Carnival Programme.
Manly Beach, Saturday,
January 6th, 1912.
1912 Freshwater Surf and Life Saving Club: Surf
Carnival Souvenir Programme.
Freshwater Bay,
Warringah Shire, Friday, January 26th, 1912.
1912 Merman: Kahanamoku
- Invitation to Tour Australia.
Merman (W. F. C. Corbett), The
Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 30th October, 1912.
1912
Gordon Inglis:
The
Joys of the Surf and Life
Saving Clubs.
Extracts from Sport
& Pastimes in Australia
Methuen and Co Ltd.,
36 Essex Street W.C. London 1912, pages 248 - 252.
1912 New York Times: Origin
of Crawl Stroke.
December 6 1912, page ?.
1913 New South Wales Surf Bathing
Association.:
Handbook 1913-1914.
Published by L.
W. Abel, Hon. Secretary, Surf Bathing Association of N.S.W.
Sports Club, Ltd.,
Hunter Street Sydney, Season 1913-1914. (Extracts)
1913 Cecil Healy : Tuppa
Tup-pala - Otherwise Known as the Crawl Stroke.
The Sunday Times, Sydney, 1913,
page?.
1914 Duke
Paoa Kahanamoku's Australian Visit : December 1914.
Newspaper extracts
from 2nd December 1914 to 23rd December 1914.
1914
Duke Kahanamoku : First Demonstration at
Freshwater 24th December 1914.
Newspaper extracts
from 24th December 1914 - 25th December 1914.
1915 NSW Amateur Swimming Association :Carnival
Programme January 1915.
Program extracts
for swimming carnivals at the Domain Baths, Sydney, on 6th, 7th and 9th
January 1915.
1915
Duke Kahanamoku in Australia : January
1915.
Newspaper extracts
from January 1915.
1915 Duke Kahanamoku in Australia :
February 1915.
Newspaper extracts
from February 1915.
1915 Duke Kahanamoku :Cronulla
7th February 1915.
Newspaper and book
extracts from 1915 to circa 1960.
1915 Surf Bathing Association of NSW:
First
Championship Carnival Programme.
Bondi Beach, Saturday,
March 20th, 1915.
1917
Charmian London: Surfriding
at Waikiki 1907-1917.
Extracts from Our
Hawaii
The Macmillan Company,
New York and others. 1917.
1917-1918
The
Surf.
Extracts from the
first surfing newspaper, twenty weekly issues between December 1917
and April 1918.
1919 E.M. Newman: Surfriding
at Waikiki.
Extracts from The
Mentor: Hawaii Volume 5 Number 14 Serial No. 138, 1 September
1917, pages 1 and 5.
1919 Fredrick O'Brien: Surfriding
in Marquesas.
Extracts from White
Shadows in the South Seas, Garden City Publishing, Garden
City, New York 1919.
1921
S. Percy Smith: Surfriding in New
Zealand.
Extracts from The
Journal of Polynesian Society Volume XXX Number 1. No. 117, March 1921.
1921 E. J. Hill: Freedom
of the Seas - The Story of Surfing and Mixed Bathing.
Extract from Sea,
Land and Air, The Wireless Press, 97 Clarence Street, Sydney.
September 1, 1921,
pages 412 to 415.
1924 Surf Life Saving Association of
Australia : Annual Report.
Extracts from: SLSA
of Australia: Annual Report and Balance Sheet 1924-1925.
The Manly Daily Print, 18 Sydney Road,
Manly.
1924
The
Hawaiian Islands.
Photographs from
National
Geograghic Magazine February 1924 Volume XLV Number Two.
1929 Curlewis and Carneaux: Sydney
Surfing.
Extracts from Jean
Curlewis and Harold Carneaux: Sydney Surfing.
Arthur McQuitty,
McQuitty House, Regent Street, Sydney, for Art in Australia Ltd., 24 Bond
Street, Sydney,1929.
1929 Dudley Hellmrich:Origin
of the Crawl.
Extracts from Dudley
Hellmrich: How To Swim. Caxton Printing Works, Sydney, 1929, pages
11 to 15.
1929 Owen E. Griffiths: How
to Shoot A Breaker.
Extracts from Dudley
Hellmrich: How To Swim. Caxton Printing Works, Sydney, 1929, pages
230 and 231.
1931 Harry Hay : Surf
Board Riding and Surf Shooting.
Extracts from Harry
Hay: Swimming and Surfing.
Jantzen (Australia)
Ltd., Lidcome, Sydney, 1931, pages 9 to 12.
1931 (Slessor) : Surf
- All About It.
Extracts from (Slessor):
Surf - All About It, Sydney, 1931, pages 16 to 17.
1932 C. D. Paterson : Sydney
Surf Beaches.
Extracts from Sydney
Bridge Celebrations
Art in Australia Limited,1932. Pages 42 to 47.
1933 Paul W. Gartner : Hawaiian
Water Sled (Tom Blake Hollow Board)
Plans and images
from
Hawaiian Water
Sled is Easy to Build
Modern Mechanix:
How to Build It (Annual) 1933. Pages 84, 85 and 86.
1934
Solid
wood Bellyboard.
Plans from
...
Uncredited : Making
Money at the Beach
Popular Mechanics
Magazine
July 1934 Vol 62
No. 1 page 115
1935 Redwood
- Balsa Laminate Surfboard 11 ft.
Plans from
...
Hi Sibley : Better
Ways to Build Surfboards
Popular ScienceMagazine
August 1935 Vol
127 No,2 page 56
1935. Redwood
- Pine Chambered Surfboard 10 ft.
Plans from
...
Hi Sibley : Better
Ways to Build Surfboards
Popular Science
Magazine
August 1935 Vol
127 No,2 page 57
1935 Redwood
- Pine Mitred and Laminated Prone board 5 ft 7 inches.
Plans ...
from : Hi Sibley
: Better Ways to Build Surfboards
in Popular ScienceMagazine
August 1935 Vol
127 No,2 page 57
1935
Redwood
or Pine Juvenile Board 46 inches.
Plans from
..
Hi Sibley : Better
Ways to Build Surfboards
Popular ScienceMagazine
August 1935 Vol
127 No,2 page 91.
1936 Surf Life Saving Association of Australia: Surf
in Australia, 1936.
Extracts from Official
Organ of the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia, Sydney.
1937 Tom
Blake Hollow Paddle Board. ('Australian
Racing 16', 'Cigar Box', 'Kook Box' 'Toothpick')
Plans from
...
Tom Blake : Riding
the Breakers on this Hollow Hawaiian Surfboard
Popular Mechanics
Magazine
July 1937 Volume
68 Number 1 pages 114 - 115
Reprinted in : How
to Build Your Own Canoe, Kayak or Surfboard, Number 30
Poplular Mechanics
Press, 200 E. Ontario Street Chicago 11 Illinois.
Copyright 1940,
Second printing 1946.
1937 Surf Life Saving Association of Australia: Surf
in Australia, 1937.
Extracts from Official
Organ of the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia, Sydney.
1938. Solid
wood Alaia. ('Church Window',
'Gothic')
Plans from
...
The Surf Life Saving
Association of Australia : The Australian Surf Life Saving Handbook
Tenth Edition (Revised
1938)
JNO, Evans and Son
Printing Coy., 486-488 Kent Street Sydney, New South Wales 1938.
Illustration Page
182.
1938 Surf Life Saving Association of Australia: Surf
in Australia, 1938.
Extracts from Official
Organ of the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia, Sydney.
1939 Sydney Press: Pacific
Games Preparations.
Extracts from The
Daily Telegraph, The Referee, January to July 1939.
1939 Surf Life Saving Association of Australia: Surf
in Australia, 1939.
Extracts from Official
Organ of the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia, Sydney.
1939 Sydney Press: Pacific
Games Carnival.
Extracts from The
Daily Telegraph, The Referee, July to August 1939.
1940 Surf Life Saving Association of Australia: Surf
in Australia, 1940.
Extracts from Official
Organ of the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia, Sydney.
1947 Ralph R. Wright: The
Competitive Swimming of Hawaii up to 1916.
Extracts from Masters
of Arts Thesis, University of Hawaii, November 1947.
1953 Styrofoam
Surfboard.
Plans from
...
Bill Reid : Fun
on a Plastic Surfboard
in Popular Mechanics
Magazine July 1953 Volume 100 Number 1 page 159 .
1953 Solarbo
Balsa Boards. - English solid wood prone boards
Advertisment from
...
Funnell, Ronald
S : The Art of Surf-Riding on the Cornish Coast,
A. Wheaton and Co.
Ltd 1953 page 30
1954
Fibreglassed
Balsawood Surfboard.
.Plans from
...
Edna Wood/Matt Kivlin
: Surfboards
in Mechanix Illustrated
Magazine
September
Volume 50 Number 9 pages 173 - 173
1956 The International
Surf Carnivals, Australia.
Extracts from the
Sydney
Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, The Sun and The Age.
1957 Ross Renwick : Build
yourself an Okinuee Board.
Extracts from Australian
Outdoors, November, 1957, pages 16 to .
1958 Arthur Lowe: Surfing
Pioneer.
Extracts from
Lowe, A. M..: Surfing,
Surf-Shooting and Surf-Lifesaving Pioneering
Printed and published
at 36 Augusta Road, Manly, 1958.
1958 Ross Renwick : Boom
in Board Riding.
Extract from Australian
Outdoors, November, 1958, pages 8 to10 and 76.
1958 Ross Renwick : Build
a Plastic Foam Surfboard.
Extract from Australian
Outdoors, November, 1958, pages 11 and 58.
1959
Ben Finney: Ancient Tahitian
Surfriding.
Extracted from
Bulletin de la
Societe des Etudes Oceaniennes.
Numbers 127 and
128, Papeete, Tahiti, June - September 1959, pages 53 to 56.
1959
Fibreglassed
Malibu. ('Pig')
Plans from
...
Edmundson, Joseph
:The Hand Book Of Swimming And Water Sports
Arthur Baker Limited
20 New Bond Street London W1 1965. Figure 53, Page 169
1959 Ross Renwick: Surf
Test : Locally Designed Board the Best !
Extract from Australian
Outdoors,
November 1959, pages 30- 31 and 74.
1959 Ross Renwick: New
Surfboard Club for Sydney.
Extract from Australian
Outdoors,
November 1959, pages 74-75.
1960 Ross Renwick: Gordon
Woods.
Extract from Australian
Outdoors,
January 1960, pages 22 to 25. .
1960 Australian Outdoors: Surfboard
Ads.
Extracts from Australian
Outdoors,
January 1960, pages 63 and 67.
1960 Duke
Kahanamoku's Visit to Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club, 1915.
Uncredited : Famous
Visit to Cronulla, circa 1960
Copied from a framed
article and photograph displayed at Cronulla Surf Design Surf Shop, Cronulla
NSW.
1962 Deewhy
Surfboard & Surfski history.
Extract from ...
Thomas, E.J.: The
Drowning Don't Die
- Fifty Years
of Vigilance and Service by the Deewhy Surf Life-Saving Club 1912-1962
Published by the
DeewhySurf Life Saving Club. Printed by the Manly Daily Pty Ltd. pages
29 -31
1963 The Australian Surfing Kit Co.:
How
to make Your Own Surfboard.
The Australian Surfing
Kit Company, 6 Mount Strreet North Sydney, N.S.W., circa 1963.
1963 The
Victorian Surfer Volume 1 Number 3.
Extracts .
1964
Phil
Edwards : Contests - What is Good?
Surfer Magazine,
February - March 1964 pages 30 to 31
1964 Greg
McDonagh : "How Surboards are Made", 1964.
Ten steps by Brooknale
manufacturer, Greg McDonagh, with illustrative photographs.
From... Pollard
Chapter Seven, pages 55 to 60
1965 Australian Surfing Kit Co.: How
to make Your Own Surfboard.
Extract: A very
brief history of surfboard riding in Australia, page 1
1965 Tom
Morey's Noseriding Contest.
Selections from
Surfer
Magazine, September (Volume 6 Number 4), November 1965 (Volume 6 Number
5) and January 1966 (Volume 6 Number 6).
1965
Phil
Edwards' Hobie Noserider.
Plans from ...
Edwards, Phil with
Ottum, Bob : You Should Have Been Here An Hour Ago
Chapter 11 : The
Great Nose-Rider Caper
1967
Bob
McTavish : Bob McTavish is in this wave. He probably had a plan to get
out of it.
Bob McTavish's Malibu
Repertoire circa 1966...
Surfing World
Magazine January 1967 pages ?
1967 Bob
McTavish : The Wild and Wonderful Days of Noosa , Part Two : National.
Surfing World
Magazine March 1967 pages 18 to 25
1967 Bob
McTavish : Bob McTavish on a bit of what's going on.
Surfing World
Magazine August - September 1967 pages 33 to 37
1967 Bob
McTavish : "WRITING in the sun is a cinch..."
SURF INTERNATIONAL
Magazine
Vol. 1. No. 1
October - November 1967 Page 9.
High performance
- Surfing as Art - Man made reefs.
1967- 8 Bob
McTavish : "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND CHILDREN OF THE SUN.."
SURF INTERNATIONAL
Magazine
Vol. 1. No. 2
December1967 - January 1968 Page 9.
Ground breaking
analysis of surfing performance that rejects the accepted approach (Detailed
in Bob McTavish is in this wave. He probably had a plan to get out
of it. See above): and establishes the dictum "BREAK OUT
FROM THE STRAIGHT LINE.".. In design this is achieved by: "Elimination
of two feet of board."
1968 Bob
McTavish : "A plastic drinking straw...."
SURF INTERNATIONAL
Magazine
Vol. 1. No. 3 February
- March 1968 Page 11.
Bob McTavish's account
of the Honolua Bay sessions, featured in Paul Witig's Hot Generation
and Eric Blum's The Fantastic Plastic Machine.
1968 Micki
Dora : Authorative Small Wave Selctions.
This commentary
by Micki Dora is edited from an article
Authorative
Big and Small Wave Selctions
published in Surfing
Magazine, early 1968, Pages 19 to 25.
The images are from
alternative sources.
1970 Bob
McTavish : Alexandra Headlands in '53.
SURF INTERNATIONAL
Magazine
Vol. 2. No. 6 January
1970? Pages 40 to 43.
Bob McTavish's recollections
of the early days in Noosa region, with a forward jump to surfing
the Barrier Reef.
1970 Bob
McTavish : Streaks and Slugs.
Surfer Tips
: Number Forty Five
Surfer Magazine
Volume 11 Number 2 May 1970, pages 27 and 29.
1970-1971
Design Issue
: Surfing World Magazine Volume 14 Number 4, circa August 1970?
This issue has a
number of design specific articles on surfboard design and/or manufacturing.
In order of merit
Bob
Cooper : Magic.
Subjectivity of
surfboard design, with particular reference to Phil Edwards' 'Baby'
Surfing World
Magazine Volume 14 Number 4, circa August 1970 ???. Pages 14 to 17.
Kevin Platt :
Basics of Form and Design Part 2.
Surfing World
Magazine Volume 14 Number 4. Pages 76-77.Circa 1970.
Steve
Core : Surfboards Today.
An informative article
focusing on current surfboard construction techniques with some comparison
with
previous methods.
Surfing World
Magazine Volume 14 Number 4 Pages 69 - 70
Peter Drouyn : Drouyn
(on design).
An article of dubious
accuracy and an unclear focus.
Surfing World
Magazine Volume 14 Number 4. Pages 8, 11 and 12.
1971
Surfboard
Design.
Uncredited
Modern World
Magazine, July 1971, pages 30 - 36.
1971
Pacific
Exploration 1776-1877.
Extracts from Dodge, Ernest S. : Beyond
the Capes - Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger, 1776-1877.
Victor
Gollanz Ltd., London, 1971.
1972
Bob
McTavish : Pods for Primates - a personal history of surfboard design
Part 1.
Tracks Magazine
March 1973
Reprinted circa
1973 in The Best of Tracks
1972 Bob
McTavish : Pods for Primates - a personal history of surfboard
design Part 2.
TracksMagazine
April? 1973
Reprinted circa
1973 in The Best of Tracks
1972 Bob
Evans : Remember the time when?
Retrospective covering
the period from the introduction of the malibu board 1956 to 1966
Surfing WorldMagazine
Volume 16 Number 4, circa June 1972. Pages 30 to 35
1972 Bobby
Mills : The Good Old Days.
Retrospective covering
the period from the introduction of the malibu board 1956 to 1966
Surfing World
Magazine Volume 16 Number 4, circa June 1972. Pages 36 and 78
Second part of the
above article
1972 Snow
McAlister : Sprint Walker, Solid Wood Boards and Victorian Surfing.
Tracks Magazine
circa 1972
Reprinted circa
1973 in The Best of Tracks, page 191
1973 Duncan
and Malcom Cambell's Bonzer.
Plans from
...
Jim Neece : The
Bonzer
Surfer Magazine
Vol 14 # 3 September 1973 page 64
1974 Stinger
by Ben Apia.
Plans from
...
Rick Neilson : Ben
Apia's Tiny Bubbles,
Tracks Magazine
November 1974 # 50, page 45.
1976 TF.'s
INSIDE SUNSET FANGER 1.
Ski Tail Design
byTerry Fitzgerald - Rodney Ball.
TRACKS Magazine,
January 1976 Number 64 Page 33.
1976 Nat's
Backhand Board.
Nat's squaretail,
as seen 'riding those lefts at the beginning of "Morning of the Earth"'
TRACKS Magazine,
January 1976 Number 64 Page 33.
1976
TinklerTail.
TinklerTail
Advertisment
Surfer Magazine
Vol 17 # 2 June/July 1976 page 142
1976 Bob
McTavish : Classic (Shortboard) Design.
Bob McTavish on
current design features, circa 1976.
Backdoor
No. 12 December 1976, page 40.
1977
Bob
McTavish : 'Bout a Spoonful.
Bob McTavish's eight
easy steps to (Greenough) Spoon building.
Surfing
World Magazine Volume 24 Number 4 January-February ?
1977, pages 64 - 65.
1977 John
Ware : Fluted Diamond Tail Kneeboard.
Surfing World
magazine Vol 25 # 3 July 1977 pages ?
1977 Bob
McTavish : It's much more fun than it looks...and it looks like fun.
Bob McTavish on
reprising the longboard/Malibu design for the late 1970's...
SurferMagazine
Vol 18 # 4 November 1977 pages 102 - 103.
1978
Bob
McTavish : Ace in the Hole - The Asymmetric Story.
Bob McTavish
..
Seanotes Magazine
August/September 1978 pages 38 - 39.
1978 Mark
Richards : Get the Real Thing - A Personal Twin Fin Design History.
Surfer Volume
19 Number 4, November 1978. Page 65.
1979 Charles
Uptin : Surfboards, Surf Skis and the Port Macquarie SLSC.
extracts from
50
Years of Surf Life-Saving in Port Macquarie 1928/29 - 1978/79
Port Macquarie
Printers Pty. Ltd., 65 Clarence Street, Port Macquarie, 1979.
1980
Bob
Cooper : Colour.
A brief history,
design options and comments on the psychological impact of surfboard decor.
Surfing World
Magazine Volume 29 Number 2, circa March 1980?. Pages 28 to 49.
1980 Bob
McTavish : A Decade of Design.
Tracks Magazine
January 1980
1981 Nick
Carroll : Three Fins ? ? Simon Says ... Thrussttt !
Tracks Magazine,
February
1981 Number 125 Page 7.
1981 Dougal
Walker :The Tri-Fin - Did God Mean It To Be?
The rapid application
of Simon Anderson's Thruster design by other top riders and shapers.
Tracks Magazine
May 1981, Number 128, Page 16.
1981 Terry
Fiztgerald : Drifta III.
Tracks Magazine
May 1981, Number 128, Page 17.
1981 Simon
Anderson Reflects on a Decade of Shaping Surfboards (Interview).
Simon Anderson's
shaping history from Shane Surfboards to Foils, Twins ('71 and '76), Nose
Nose and Thruster designs.
Surfing World
Magazine Volume 30 Number 1, circa May 1981. Pages 16 to 31.
1981 Peter
Townend : Two, Two, Two Boards in One (Bi-fin).
SURFING Magazine,
June 1981 Volume 17 Number 6 Page 27.
1982 Tom Symonds :Maroubra
SLSC History.
Extracts from Maroubra
Surf Club - The First 75 Years. Lester-Townsend Publishing Pty. Ltd.
Sydney, 1982.
1983 Laurie March :
Merewether SLSC History.
Extracts from A
History of the Merewether Surf Club 19080-1983. Merewether Surf Life
Saving Club, 1983.
1983 Jim Thorn :Helensburgh-Stanwell
Park SLSC History.
Extracts from The
First 75 Years, 1908-1983 - A History of the Helensburgh-Stanwell Park
Surf Life Saving Club. Surf Life Saving Association of Australia, 1983.
1983
Charlie Kuhn :Coffs Harbour
SLSC History.
Extracts from Coffs
Harbour Surf Life Saving Club - The First 60 Years, 1923-1983.
Coffs Harbour Surf Life Saving Club, NSW,
1983.
1989 Nick Carroll : Australian
Shapers : A Family Tree.
Adapted from SurfingMagazineVol
25 No. 2 February 1989, page 106.
Note that the original
article stated that the diagram was incomplete.
1989 George
Obelian : Give It the Axe- Early Development of the Modern Gun
Ancients - Hot Curls
- Simmons - Downing., from...
Surfer MagazineVol
30 No. 10 1989, page 104 - 105
1989 Dick
Brewer : Lust in the Dust - An Era of Big-Wave Equipment Evolution
Dick Brewer's big
wave design history...
Surfer Magazine
Vol 30 No. 10 1989, page 105.
1995 Ken Pollard :Torquay
SLSC.
Extracts from
History of Torquay Surf Life Saving Club : the first fifty years, 1945-1995.
Torquay Surf Life
Saving Club, Torquay, Vic., 1996.
1999 Louise
Gilmore : Queenscliff
SLSC.
Extracts from Queenscliff SLSC - 75
Years of Vigilance and Service. 1924 -1999.
2001 Pauline
Curby : The Myth of William Gocher
Extract from ...
Seven Miles from Sydney - A History of Manly
Manly Council, 1
Belgrave Street, Manly, NSW 2095.
Printed by Headland
Press, Brookvale, Sydney.
2005 Debora
Smith (Science Editor) : Earth's first beachcombers ended up in Australia.
Sydney Morning
Herald : Weekend Edition, May 14-15 2005
News : Page 13.
Reporting research
developments published in Science, 13 May 2005.
2005
Judy Adamson : The FCS - H2 Surfboard fin
Sydney Morning
Herald : , August 6-7, 2005.
SPECTRUM : Page
33.
Design : Moments
away from inspiration
Reporting on three
Australian Design Developments
-The Dophin torch
- The pedestrian button - The surfboard fin.
Geoff Cater (2000-2009) : Source
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