pods for primates: a catalogue of surfboards in australia since 1900
home catalogue history references appendix
surfresearch.com.au 
 surf : hawaii - waimea 
waimea bay

Waimea Bay (geographical)
Dickie Cross and Woody Brown, were forced to paddle in at Waimea in a rapidly rising swell.
Woody Brown managed to make it to the beach. Dickie Cross disappeared, assumed drowned.

1957
Greg Noll and Mike Stange first to paddle out. Greg Noll 1st wave, Greg Noll and Pat Curren 1st big
wave. Others  Mickey Munoz, Bing Copeland Del Cannon and Bob Bermell.
Reference Noll pages ??



Owl Chapman, Waimea Bay, circa 1971.
Photograph : Jeff Hornbaker
Surfer Magazine Vol 30 No. 10  1989, page 105.
Reno Abellira, Waimea Bay, 1974.
Smirnoff Contest - 1st Place.
Photograph : Jeff Devine

Surfing  Magazine February 1980.
Volume 16 Number 2, page 58.
Brock Little, Waimea Bay, November 2, 1989.
Photograph : Uncredited

Surfing  Magazine July 1990.
Volume 26 Number 7, page 27.


home catalogue history references appendix