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Mark Richards
MR
Born at Newcastle, 7 March 1957

Source Document
1978 Mark Richards : Get the Real Thing - A Personal Twin Fin Design History
Surfer Volume 19 Number 4, November 1978. Page 65.

Mark Richards and Gordon Woods Custom Surfboard,
Blacksmiths Beach, Newcastle circa 1963.
Photograph : Richards' Family
Knox, page 13.

Mark Richards and Gordon Woods Vee bottom,
Blacksmiths Beach, Newcastle,
Christmas Day 1967.
Photograph : Richards' Family
Knox, page 30.
Note Hourglass deck patch.

Mark Richards, Backdoor Pipeline, 1975.
Photograph : Dan Merkel
Surfing Magazine March 1984
Volume 20 Number 3 page 111.

Mark Richards and Stinger Quiver
Plus a Twin Fin, 1977.
Photograph : Hugh McLeod
Surfing World magazine, July 1977.
Volume 25 Number 3 page 12.

Mark's quiver of pictue boards,
shaped by Ben Apia and Dick Brewer.
Airbrush sprays by Albert Dove.

Mark Richards and 6ft 4'' Twin
Off The Wall, 1977.
Photograph : Lance Trout

Surfing Magazine February 1980.
Volume 16 Number 2, page 90.

Mark Richards and 6ft 4'' Twin
Off The Wall, 1977.
Photograph : Lance Trout
Surfing Magazine June-July 1978.
Volume 14 Number 3, page 47

Mark Richards and Twin Fin - Shaun Tomson and Single Fin
Off The Wall, December 1977.
Photograph :Lance Trout
Surfing Magazine March 1984
Volume 20 Number 3 page 123.

Mark Richards and 6 ft 4'' Twin fin, 1978.
Photograph : Aitionn
Surfing World magazine, April 1979.
Volume 27 Number 6 page 44

Mark Richards, 6ft Green and Blue Board,
Mereweather, Newcastle, 1978.
Photograph : ?
? Magazine March 1984 ?
? Volume 20 Number 3 page 111.?

#43p MR's Apia/Brewer Stingers, circa 1976

Mark Richards and Stinger and Twin Quiver, circa 1979.
Photograph by Peter Booskovic.
Printed in The Australian Surfers Journal
Vol 1 # 3 Winter 1998 page 44 -

1992
Knox, David :
Mark Richards : A Surfing Legend
Collins Angus & Robertson Publishers Pty. Ltd.
25 – 31 Ryde Road. Pymble NSW 2073 Australia 1992
Hard cover, 178 pages, 25 colour plates, 41 b/w photographs, chronology, index.
Review
A straightforward biography about a straightforward surfer, (and I mean straight!) contrast with Noll, Hakman and the contemporary Rabbit. Early photographs are very interesting – surf-o-plane, V-bottoms and hanging five. Colour plates have previously appeared in a plethora of publications. Unfortunately absent are 1970’s quiver photographs (Reno pins, Apia stings and MR twins) and the classic drop in on Shaun Thomson at Off-the-Wall circa 1976.