I got the book TC Tom Carroll by Nick Carroll, it's a great read. I knew Tom & Nick where teaming up for the M2O race so I had to get the book signed. When Tom & Nick signed the book for me, my camera battery died so I couldn't get a photo of the three of us "bummed"



iRONPHIL and Nick Carroll M2O Finishline


Good mate Blair with TC and Nick

Would be a great read , did he and his bro do sup or prone?

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teatrea said..
Would be a great read , did he and his bro do sup or prone?

Prone Nick Carroll is an all round great bloke good surfer very smart Journalist loves being a Clubbie strong prone paddler so they did M2O on a prone I believe they won the over 100's Tom Carroll does both Prone and SUP.

Great book...other good surfing reads, "Kong - Gary Elketon" & "MP - Life of Michael Peterson...just about finished MP, looking for the next. Maybe Occy's book

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MickPC said..
Great book...other good surfing reads, "Kong - Gary Elketon" & "MP - Life of Michael Peterson...just about finished MP, looking for the next. Maybe Occy's book

MickPC excellent, but I've read'm all I love surfing I love Downwind Paddling but surfing is more fun.
If you haven't read these books but I'd say you have already.
Surfers Code from my Idol Shaun Tompson
The Wave, is all about heavy ocean swells
Bunker Spreckels, they named a town after him on Maui, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, but died too young.
Thrust, Simon Anderson Legend
Laird Hamilton, say no more.

Looking forward to reading Westerly (Poor C##t frightening) The bloke is not normal,Heavy.

Kong's book ****s all over the others IMO....at least the big fella nutted up and told the truth straight up

Cheers Downwinder, I'll check 'em out

I've enjoyed them all Tux (MP, TC, GE)...MP's book has probably been the most interesting to me coz of the era & places its set. Expecially that part in the US before MP's first trip to Hawaii

Cheers DW, didn't know there was a bunker book..

Just ordered a copy..

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SP said..
Cheers DW, didn't know there was a bunker book..

Just ordered a copy..

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/SUP/Bunker-Spreckels/#1603126

Picked up a copy of eddie would go in hawaii , was a good read.yeah kong was great too.wouldnt mind reading micks too.does jerry lopez have a book ? Would like to read about him.

Yup, Gerry Lopez has a great book: "Surf Is Where You Find It"
www.amazon.com/Surf-Is-Where-You-Find/dp/0979065917

I read it, and found it surprisingly good.

It is just a collection of 2-4 pages memories, but it is quite touching as it makes you part of the life of poor barefoot Hawaiian country kid, and the narration is pleasant, cool and humble. Although surfing is there in every page, it is more a book about life than surfing, actually. Warmly recommended!

"The best surfer is the one having the most fun!"

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Tux said..
Kong's book ****s all over the others IMO....at least the big fella nutted up and told the truth straight up

Intrigued by your comment, I started it, and.... WoW! Kong knows how to write and tell stories, and his quite funny and witty (or his co-author, Peter McGuiness, is)
I am only at a quarter of it, but it is a real jewel...

A definite must-read! www.harpercollins.com/9781743097397/kong-the-life-and-times-of-a-surfing-legend/

PS: I did not find any other work of Peter McGuiness. Is he well known in Australia?

An extract to wet your appetite: (Keith = Bull = Kong's father. St Bredan = Protector saint of fishermen)

My favourite Keith Elkerton story is the first-hand account of a five-year-old deckhand. It wasn’t my first voyage with Dad, but it is one I can recall with perfect clarity from start to (very early) finish. There was a big swell running on the Evans Head bar and the rain was torrential enough to restrict Mum’s usual interaction with St Brendan to the comfort of the caravan. Must’ve been why the slack bugger couldn’t hear her prayers that day.
I was in the wheelhouse with Dad, loving the thrill of riding up the wave faces and the weightless feeling of descending their backs. Although I knew to keep out of the way, I was still close enough to be in a cloud of smoke, thanks to the ever-present Benson & Hedges Special Filter jammed into the corner of Bull’s gob. He’d actually just lit up a new one when suddenly all hell broke loose.
Within the blink of an eye and a ‘get the **** out’, my loving father had gripped me under the armpit and tossed me over the port gunwale. I was in the water before I had time to wonder what I’d done to make Dad so angry. In hindsight, it’s nice to know that Bull had such faith in my five-year-old swimming ability. At the time, though, I was busy ducking white water and keeping one eye on the trawler.
The reason I got the heave-ho was because it had become apparent to Dad that the boat was most likely about to be crushed and sunk. So I got chucked out and he returned to the wheelhouse while a gigantic wave gathered its full height in preparation to break precisely in between the bow and the captain’s seat.
As Dad had planned, I was swept away a considerable distance in those few seconds. I watched thunderstruck as our twenty-metre trawler was rolled like a toy in an explosion of foam and the crashing noises of gear below decks being cast around like lottery balls in a barrel. I saw Bull standing at the wheel, steering stoically as she went over. She didn’t sink. The old boy had gotten just enough angle on her to get tubed rather than impacted mid-deck. I got my first look at the bottom of a trawler before she righted herself, a bit worse for wear, but generally shipshape.
And there was Bull – still at the wheel.
A good Samaritan rock fisherman helped me ashore while Dad signalled madly to make sure I was alright. I don’t remember feeling fear when I recall that day – I remember the whole episode as an adventure. And I remember the pride I felt in Bull as he stood in the wheelhouse giving me the thumbs up, smiling as a dry Benson & Hedges replaced its drowned predecessor.
A bloke would have to be crazy to take a five-year-old on a trawler, right? It’s a matter of perspective. By our standards, if you can walk and swim, there’s no reason why you can’t be included in life on board. I’ve never considered my oldies as irresponsible for this, or for any aspect of my childhood. Quite the opposite. Not only was I in a close, caring family environment, but I was given a life straight out of a Boy’s Own adventure, albeit the MA15+ version.

And some glimpse of the life in Australia primary schools :-)

The sexuality of girls wasn’t unknown to me beforehand. In fact, during my final few weeks at Mooloolaba Primary, a girl called Becky became disturbingly enamoured of my penis. She asked to see it in class. I pulled it out beneath the desk to show her and was amazed when she took it in hand and began doodling on it with a ballpoint pen. No ****. It ****ing hurt, but I figured it would be the height of rudeness to tell her to stop. My dick ended up with several love hearts inscribed on it.

This is a great read as well.

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Ted the Kiwi said...
This is a great read as well.

Agreed. Great book on what the lesser-known aspects of North Shore Oahu are like re. Eddie Rothman, Da Hui etc. The author's a smart arse, and it's no wonder he gets slapped, but a very entertaining read!