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obct said...

Hey BB, my mate did once own a little piece of that paradise.

He had the very last house on the other side of that headland overlooking Mullaway.

Here's a pic from about 1983.

I even helped him clear the land the year before he built it.

He lost that place in his first divorce.


Great photo,BEERS for the boy's whos who

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62mac said...

Simondo said...

Mac, did you see my Rincon '68 McTavish post in shortboards??

I did Simon,I was going to ask you to post it over here,I think the boy's would have found it interesting.

We have some historians who would get a buzz out of that post.

How did it go and you mentioned you were a test pilot for the R&D department.Can you indulge how you became involved.

LBers are allowed in the SB forum you know, mac lurks there a bit.

Gee and a couple of them even talk to me lol good guy's lurk your lurker you doggie

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obct said...

Hey BB, my mate did once own a little piece of that paradise.

He had the very last house on the other side of that headland overlooking Mullaway.

Here's a pic from about 1983.

I even helped him clear the land the year before he built it.

He lost that place in his first divorce.


Great photo,BEERS for the boy's whos who

Obct is on the right in the pink tee-o, good to see you had the darts out that day

So who darts

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So who darts

Ciggies, on the rail that they are sitting on.

Smoken

Great 80's photo !!
Are they glasses of beer !!?? Cool glasses.

Mac, I can't remember the name of the place we stayed in in Kauai, but it was one of the Hotels in that little bunch amongst the old Coconut Plantation, only about 10-15mins north of the airport. But we got a Jeep, and hit the road for a few hours each day. It's a spectacular island !

I'm the one on the left with the 80s porn mustache and the harry high pants shorts.

Drinking small glassed of beer was always the norm up there, even to this day we try to drink middies rather than schooners so they stay at the right temp.

I probably shouldn't say too much but at that stage the dude on the right was married to a girl from Grafton and her sister was married to a sepo who was not a bad surfer on the international stage.

Unfortunately his brother in law he had fallen victim to his own excesses and it was at about that stage that he was running a surf school in Australia and trying to put the pieces back together again.

He then got the opportunity to start all over again in Europe and went to his brother in law, (the guy on the right in the picture) for a bit of help.

The sepo came good again in a real big way and has never looked back since, and even though they both remarried, he never forgot the favour his ex brother in law did him, so in May of 2003 when my mate turned 50, he shouted him to a 13 day indo cruise, a new empty reef break every morning for 13 mornings.

I turned 50 at about the same time and all I got was a stupid watch, I was well pissed.

obct,I recall you telling that story a while back and sounds like a good one.
Gee what Id give for names but I guess this is a public forum

I love those classic shots,maybe we should start a old photo thread

I wouldn't worry about the high shorts and the mustache,I know a guy in the forum who looks same same

I reckon you and your mate were the cool dudes in the dayand if you look closely obct has a beer in one hand and another on the ready to his leftand the vee neck tee's are the rage once morepink is the new black and the 80's short boardies are in vogue again

Longboarding is more popular today than it was in the 80's as well.full circle the combie has been replaced by X5's and the new pet hate has changed,once the Mal rider to goat boater now the sup's

Not naming names is more to do with my mates privacy rather than the privacy of the well known surfer.

He wrote a book and was very open about his past and the things that lead to his rise and fall and rise again.

The 80s may have been bad for fashions but I reckon the 70s were worse, those platform shoes and bell bottoms were just horrendous and to this day my wife still ribs me about the fact that I once owned a pair of clogs.


Seriously, on the actual subject of where you would live if you could, I would probably stick with living in Sydney all my life. All those years of visiting that little town has taught me that country towns are really nice places to visit but I could never live there.

In small towns everyone knows everyone and for many, that's an attraction but along with that, everyone seems to know everyones business and for me, that's not an attraction.

I like the way a big city gives me a measure of privacy and anonymity.

I can walk around a corner and not be known, I guess it's something that I grew up with and feel comfortable with. Up until the age of about 35 or 40 I probably could have moved to a little town and made a success of it, but not anymore.

I wouldn't mind living out front of that bank Dogman surfs. I grew up around that area. mmmm yes, having Dogman for a neighbour would be interesting !!

I met dogman at a comp earlier this year,he is a great guy with a smile from ear to ear (all the time) he would be a great neighbour I reckon,loves his surfing,music and meat pies Not sure how the pies would go cooking on the BBQ

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Seriously, on the actual subject of where you would live if you could, I would probably stick with living in Sydney all my life. All those years of visiting that little town has taught me that country towns are really nice places to visit but I could never live there.

In small towns everyone knows everyone and for many, that's an attraction but along with that, everyone seems to know everyones business and for me, that's not an attraction.

I like the way a big city gives me a measure of privacy and anonymity.

I can walk around a corner and not be known, I guess it's something that I grew up with and feel comfortable with. Up until the age of about 35 or 40 I probably could have moved to a little town and made a success of it, but not anymore.

The reason I came up with this topic was I have for a long time dreamt about living in a small town to escape the rat race and commercialism of the GC, things are not the same as they once where and not all for the good. Maybe that's thats life.

If I did make the move,it would probably be short lived for similar reasons you mention.

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I wouldn't mind living out front of that bank Dogman surfs. I grew up around that area. mmmm yes, having Dogman for a neighbour would be interesting !!

Oh yeah - just what every secret retirement spot needs - A F##KING STAND UP PADDLER NEXT DOOR.

lol

I would rather be waking up in my swag in the dunes in front of an uncrowded head high beach break with light off shore winds and sunny skies.

Would surf til I could barely walk then have bacon and eggs for brekkie and fish for an hour or two, eat the catch for lunch (big fat yellowfin whiting preferably) get the radio cranking with the ashes on and have a few cans with the boys under the shade of the tarp.....

Damn it now Friday is gonna go real slow..nice one Mac [}:)]

SW, that sounds exactly like the lifestyle George Greanough leads up there near Byron.

I was reading a funny story on real surf about a guy who was helping him re-edit "the inner most limits....." after often being frustrated that George would not be there when he turned up for work, he finally worked out when George would make himself available for what George referred to a "the button pushing".

It all depended on the wind and the swell direction, if neither suited fishing or a wave, then there's a good change George was happy to do some work.

What a life eh?

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SW, that sounds exactly like the lifestyle George Greanough leads up there near Byron.

I was reading a funny story on real surf about a guy who was helping him re-edit "the inner most limits....." after often being frustrated that George would not be there when he turned up for work, he finally worked out when George would make himself available for what George referred to a "the button pushing".

It all depended on the wind and the swell direction, if neither suited fishing or a wave, then there's a good change George was happy to do some work.

What a life eh?

I ran into George on the beach at Broken Head probably just over a year ago. He was just going for a surf on a blow up "Surf o Plane" type thing. He was quite chatty and said that his shoulders were buggered from carting barrows of concrete in the desert of some foreign county. Interesting guy, still had the stoke even on a blow up surf mat !!

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Daneli said...

I wouldn't mind living out front of that bank Dogman surfs. I grew up around that area. mmmm yes, having Dogman for a neighbour would be interesting !!

Oh yeah - just what every secret retirement spot needs - A F##KING STAND UP PADDLER NEXT DOOR.

I'm Bisurfual - I like it both ways

I used to go on frequent camping trips around Broken Head, Lennox areas, and you would bump into George quite a bit. I was really nervous to talk to him first time round, but when I plucked up the courage to talk to him, yeah, he was always very chatty! Nice bloke.

He loves his surf mat ! As a confession, I also used to bodyboard in the 90's (). I also loved his work on Crystal Voyager. So to have a few surfs with him over the years was a little bit of a treat !!

I've been meaning to buy and old Spoon too, but they are always too expensive.... Would love to ride one at Winki down here....

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billboard said...

Daneli said...

I wouldn't mind living out front of that bank Dogman surfs. I grew up around that area. mmmm yes, having Dogman for a neighbour would be interesting !!

Oh yeah - just what every secret retirement spot needs - A F##KING STAND UP PADDLER NEXT DOOR.

I'm Bisurfual - I like it both ways

You don't need to explain your sexuality on here mate - you ride a sup - it needs no further explanation.

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Daneli said...

billboard said...

Daneli said...

I wouldn't mind living out front of that bank Dogman surfs. I grew up around that area. mmmm yes, having Dogman for a neighbour would be interesting !!

Oh yeah - just what every secret retirement spot needs - A F##KING STAND UP PADDLER NEXT DOOR.

I'm Bisurfual - I like it both ways

You don't need to explain your sexuality on here mate - you ride a sup - it needs no further explanation.

BB have you sold your SUP yet

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BB have you sold your SUP yet

I don't actually own one anymore. We have one for the missus to play around on and which I will use for a bit of flatwater re-hab for 6 wks after the knee op next month until I can get back on a surfboard and then I am hopefully back to fully hetero again. Now I am fully back on a longboard I see no need to be wasting waves and time with a sup in the surf when I can do so much more on a surfboard.

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doggie said...


BB have you sold your SUP yet

I don't actually own one anymore. We have one for the missus to play around on

Ummm sure....whatever you say

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doggie said...


BB have you sold your SUP yet

Now I am fully back on a longboard I see no need to be wasting waves and time with a sup in the surf when I can do so much more on a surfboard.

So what do you have BB, a real surfboard or a longboard?

Back on topic, I would still live on the Goldy but just wish I didn't have to work for money. Then I could surf uncrowded (relatively) weekdays.

Hi all. Things are pretty good over here, the weather is generally pretty nice, mid 20s a bit of ocassional swell although yesterday and today the wind has been howling offshore, killing it. Might go up to Wedge on Sunday (a couple of hours North of Perth).

Back on topic, I'd live 6 months in Perth and 6 months anywhere between the Goldie and Ballina, the land of the right handed point break.
Bring on Lotto.

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billboard said...

doggie said...


BB have you sold your SUP yet

Now I am fully back on a longboard I see no need to be wasting waves and time with a sup in the surf when I can do so much more on a surfboard.

So what do you have BB, a real surfboard or a longboard?

From my experience real surfboards start at 9ft and a longboard I suppose would be 10'+ - so technically I ride a surfboard (9.4) always have and always will. From the first day I ever stood up on a sup I said that if I was ever able to surf a real board again I would ditch the sup and that's pretty much what has happened. I hope I never deteriorate again to a level where I have to go back on a sup but ya never know I guess, so I won't say I'll never sup again.

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Daneli said...

billboard said...

Daneli said...

I wouldn't mind living out front of that bank Dogman surfs. I grew up around that area. mmmm yes, having Dogman for a neighbour would be interesting !!

Oh yeah - just what every secret retirement spot needs - A F##KING STAND UP PADDLER NEXT DOOR.

I'm Bisurfual - I like it both ways

You don't need to explain your sexuality on here mate - you ride a sup - it needs no further explanation.

Yes it's been just over 12 months since I been able to surf a "real" board after a nasty shoulder reconstruction that went wrong. SUP was the only way to get a surf fix. The shoulder is still only 80% but good enough to get back on a longboard. I've sold all old boards and SUP's now to restructure the quiver with 1 SUP and a new longboard which should be here next week. I don't mind admitting that I enjoy the SUP and will keep using it, particularly in small or full conditions

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martman said...

Hey boof what are you doing in my dream

I would rather be anywhere but here , somewhere i havent been
except prison of course
Theres no better feeling than the excited anticipation of driving to the beach in the morning for an early and glimpsing the ocean waiting patiently for your arrival serving up continuous lines of swell to the horizon yeeha

Hey Martman just looked at your profile bro we were in Pennant Hills I pulled out of my street every morning into gridlock 3 lane Pennant hills road all the way to northern beaches depot about 33 kms used to take me about an hour, my new job is 10 min bike ride not a traffic light in sight just pack up and do it your family will thrive
cheers Boof

Thanks for the heads up boof ,your right man , I lived the single life at Dee why curly for a few years back in the 90s and never missed an epic swell , now with seabreeze its not so hit & miss , but i do miss the bigger picture , your cool thanx man P/S love the bulldog yeeha