Separately, on of my all time funny Christmas Surfing stories is;
A plumber on The Northern Beaches, Sydney was doing some work under a house at Palm Beach. Afterwards, he asked the oldish Jewish Lady if she was interested in selling the old single fins surfboards under the house... Her response, "Oh, I forgot about them, they were Christmas presents for the boys back in 1977!"...
Sadly, she wouldn't sell them! The were unridden!

2 boards, I was told...