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The Central Coast Malibu Board riders have been celebrating the love of surfing traditional and modern long boards since 1985.
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At the Avoca club day we were greeted at the shark tower
with some double overhead waves. After the coffee runs, and
a few chats to the CCMB eye in the sky, we decided to Surf
the more mal friendly bank at the Pines! Which turned out
to be a good call.
Due to the small roll up we trialed a new format having all
A and B graders surf against members in their grade for the
first round to give them a chance to gain maximum points,
and combined the grades in round two! Which surprisingly
worked well. Of course there was the odd laugh or two. This
time at my expense, forgetting to put my rashie on. This gave
me a clear points lead for the prestigious Gumby Award,
although I do have to thank Witty for the assist he gave me.
It didn’t click why he was smiling and laughing as we walked
down to the waters edge for the heat.
PUMPINGPINES
Journalism. A tough life.
Thanks to Wayne for the awesome BBQ cook up, it was
outstanding with a cold beverage at the end of the day! Is there
a better way to spend your Sunday? Big thanks to Peter at
Beachin Surf Toukley for the great raffle prizes he gives us every
month. He has a great selection of Mals and surf gear at the
store on Main Road, Toukley, so make sure you mention you
are from the club and Peter will look after you.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Leanne Witt for
the new club rashies that she scored for us from Adrenaline,
well done!
There are a couple of important dates to lock in for 2014. Last
year we had an awesome trip up to Crescent Head, it was so
much fun it’s on again, but you will need to get in early. The
date set down, is the weekend of the 17th and 18th of October
and the cost of the accommodation will be around the $70
mark for the Friday and Saturday night. Dave Shearim is in
charge so have a chat to him next club day, or you can contact
him on 0408 295 722. The presentation evening is locked in
for the 22nd of November, and will be at Davistown RSL.
The venue and food was fantastic last year, so don’t miss
this gala event and support our sponsors at the same time.
Next comp day is at the Lakes, so see you all there 7.00am at
the surf club. Now we are at the at the business end of the
season, I am looking forward to a good turn out.
The Prez
At the Avoca club day we were greeted at theshark tower with some double overhead waves.
big thanks to Peter atBeachin Surf Toukleyfor great raffle prizes...
I think your very dedicated scribe was up before the proverbial
sparrow’s gas emission, but I guess that’s another story. I think
my head still hurts a bit!
Hooked up the trailer (no, I didn’t forget!), and headed off for
Avoca car park for the usual 7.00 am SHARP start to our huge
July club day.
Did I say huge? A mighty crew of about 12 or 13 hardy surfers
made the very sound decision to head for the pines for a little
protection from a pretty brisk SW breeze and a very chewy
shark tower break.
Greg had previously decided to head off to Copa to check
things out when no sooner had he left than Donnie arrived
and let us know that we could forget Copa as it was absolute
rubbish. The Prez said not to bother to call Greg back thinking
he somehow needed to eventually find his way around the
district without a map!
Fortunately, for the most part, it was a pleasant, cool and
sunny winter’s morning with a considerable outside swell
rolling past on the horizon creating fairly clean inner waves at
our “secret spot” around the metre mark with an occasional
larger version sneaking in to catch the unwary.
Set-up was nice and quick and with an anticipated southerly
on its way up the coast it was decided with such a small crew
that we could get away with running three heats, old mals and
eight footers. And the heat/ scoring set-up? Greg’s system,
Ron’s system, Dave’s system, Geoff’s system and then back to
It was a pleasant, cool andsunny winter’s morning with aconsiderable outside swellrolling past on the horizon...
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Greg’s system. Talk about too many chefs! However, all was
sorted and I’m happy to report that this didn’t end in fisticuffs.
Some reasonable round 1 and 2 waves; however, from then on
things slowly deteriorated becoming a bit chewy and messy.
There were still a few decent waves that somehow held up for a
time to give a lucky surfer or two a reasonable tally at the end
of the day. (See Incident 1.)
Incidents...1: I guess an 11 on your scoresheet would look pretty
impressive even if a bit out of place, but this is what an
unnamed judge who was our ex prez (oops) gave to one of
our competitors. Fortunately picked up by our hardworking
tallier, Leanne, and dealt with accordingly. Unfortunately, I
think this was overlooked for a Gumby, but still should have
received a special commendation.
2: Drop-in! Courtesy of “what drop-in?” Hayzie. Observed
by many as seemingly a quite deliberate and predetermined
ploy to put “someone” off his game. Doubted it
worked though.
3: A Great Gumby if ever there was one. The Prez actually
managing to put together a full half heat before realising
that he had left his rashie back at the tent. Of course
that’s half a heat looking like a free surfer. I wonder how
many judges noticed. Dave Witt certainly did but very
cleverly kept it to himself. And I hear their supposed to
be good mates!
The Sick Bay...1: At the CCMB we have a saying (well, we have now), “if you’re
going to do a job, do it well”. In Fibbo’s case he certainly did.
Dave decided to part company with his heavy old mal at
Blue Bay and attempted to take a chunk out of the rail
(double layered no doubt) with his nose and cheek! This of
course didn’t come off as expected as the board definitely
had the last laugh. With a broken nose, a cheek totally
opened up and the right side of his face looking like a purple
football Dave certainly didn’t appear his usual dashing,
debonair and handsome self. Seriously though it looks like
he’s on the mend now with a pretty good effort in the water
on Sunday.
Lesson for today Dave, “never let your ambitions exceed
your capabilities”.
Although I’m not sure there ever was a surfer who has listened
to that one!
2: Dave Ryan (you know, the one with the hand held air horn!)
managed to injure his big toe somehow, went surfing, (as
silly little boys will do) and promptly reinfected it. This I hear
resulted in a very serious staph infection and a resultant
hospital treatment and recovery period. Another lesson here
I think? Hope you are recovering Dave and we see you at the
next club day.
3: Dave Shearim also has a few very restricting issues at the
moment with a hip problem that no surfer wants to have.
It’s currently causing him some discomfort to the point
where he had to pull out of the massive final rounds of
Sundays comp. Let’s hope this comes good also.
What a bunch of crocks, pays to do your best by your body as
we don’t have a reserve unit to slip into. Well, maybe, who
knows what science might come up with next!
Also must give public congratulations to the following
members who competed in the recent Snowy: Dave Witt, 4th,
Over 45’s and Simon Smith, 4th, Over 55’s. Great job fellas and
to think neither of you look a day over 65!
See you next month.
J.O. (Snr)
Fin: The short, sharp object attached to the bottom of your
board designed to maim or decapitate wayward body surfers.
As the bodysurfer problem has increased, so has the number of
these weapons employed on each board. As many as five are
considered necessary on summer Sundays at places like Bondi.
(With thanks to P.J.)
The ex-prez in disguise hiding in the long grass...
Will this be the finalclimactic conclusion to thisversion of the great sixtiessurfing saga?Or, is there more in the memory bank,
hiding away in those deep dark recesses of
my grey matter that will worm its
torturous way out and onto a few extra
pages somewhere in a future newsletter?
Only time (or someone sabotaging my
computer!) will reveal the final outcome
of this seemingly “never ending story”.
Old Guys Rule, so listen up kiddies and
humour me a little while I wander off into
the past again for a short time.
Sandshoes! Oh what great memories this
tiny almost beachless, very rocky local
surfspot conjures up in this old head. And
yes, it was a breeding ground for
thousands of sea urchins so some form of
footwear was absolutely essential at this
very shallow, reef break. As a few hardy
(or foolish) souls will attest to, sea urchin
spines penetrate deeply and are nasty
little devils to remove from the foot.
Halcyon days indeed for this bunch of
surfheads who’s only desire was to escape
the growing crowds that threatened to
take over almost every rideable (and
indeed non rideable) wave that caressed
the shores of the southern beaches.
We had, for a while, been testing the
waters of Sandshoes where some of the
older locals would go during times of
relatively small swell, when a new
member of our crew (Ian something) very
casually mentioned that his Mum had
taken over the council lease to operate
The Kiosk near the ocean pool in the park
overlooking the beach.
Naturally, what the reader should attempt
to keep in mind here is that we are
writing about a bunch of young teenagers
who would literally give their eyeteeth to
be able to rise with the sun and walk with
their boards tucked under their arms
about 20 metres (yards!) to what was
considered to be a pretty good, but less
ridden, local break on its day.
As we were a pretty likeable crew it didn’t
take much talking to get Mum (we did
call her that, with her blessing of course)
to agree for us to stay after close up, bring
the boards in, help clean up the place and
bunk down in the change rooms on the
benches with our blankets or sleeping
bags. Teenagers, no sense, no feeling! But
it was great fun!
I guess what had made this arrangement
even more worthwhile on our nights
there was that half a dozen surfie nuts
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were fed by Mum with all the leftovers
from the day’s kiosk activities. Teenage
heaven! Chiko rolls, chips, pies, milk
shakes, no wonder some of us had health
issues in later years!
But well fed we were, and after a short
time Mum was even bringing in Rice
Bubbles, bananas and milk after an early
surf “to make sure her boys didn’t go
hungry”. What an absolute angel this
Lady was and we returned her generosity
by being there as much as possible to
clean showers and toilets and tidy up
around the place before and after closing.
We spent many very happy weekends at
The Kiosk when we knew the surf was on
and were always the first in the water and
often the last out. Mum was something of
a mentor to most of us, taking us under
her wing when she thought there may
have been some trouble or other brewing.
During this time when the swell was too
big for Sandshoes and The Point was only
for the likes of Jacko, Frank Latta, Cowboy
Neill and their fearless crew we would
wander around to the Cronulla
(Gunnamatta Bay) wharf in Port Hacking,
board the ferry to Bundeena and around
three quarters of the way across jump off
the back and surf the long peely waves
across the sandbars that silted up that part
of the bay.
A short, but very tired paddle to
Bundeena, back on a return ferry, jump in
the ute or on the rattler and we were on
our way home.
Two things happened with that little
venture, (we managed about 12 months’
worth).
Firstly, my Dad found out, and we then
received a very firm lecture (he was a keen
fisherman) about the number of,
sometimes large sharks that either took
fish off lines or were inadvertently caught
by himself and locals alike around the
deep water off those banks.
Secondly, the ferry masters became sick
and tired of the surfies running around
their ferries trying to avoid a crew
member who wanted to catch and fine
these “dopey kids” for jumping off their
boat without completing the journey.
Initially we would paddle over to
Bundeena and catch the ferry back,
however they soon wised up to this and
on one particular occasion refused us the
return journey. It’s a long, hard hitchhike
(with boards) from Bundeena to Cronulla,
and for half a dozen cold and wet surfies
complete with boards our first experience
was to be our last as we all drifted into
Cronulla at various times after dark!
Unless we could gain some miraculous
access to a boat (which we definitely
couldn’t) or were willing to take a very
long paddle across the deep and dark
channel into the bay (which we definitely
decided we wouldn’t!) then the Port
Hacking Ferry, with boards impounded
for the journey, became a mere vessel to
gain entry into the Royal National Park
for further forays into mystical spots we
had only heard of by way of mouth from
the equally mystical local surf gurus.
Also around this time our mate Arthur
and his ute lost interest in the surfing
thing, so we were back to the rattlers (and
the authorities were starting to clamp
down on boards on trains), the thumb,
bike or a, sometimes “borrowed” parents
car.
Well, I think that this may be an
opportune time to take a bit of a break
from all this reminiscing, (or wandering)
and plug my overworked grey matter back
into the charger to try and regain a few
memory cells to start over again at a (not
too distant) later date.
That’s right, we’re securely locked into the
journey now, and so for good or bad it
looks like there will definitely be a Part 5!!
J.O. (Snr)
NAME GRADE QYT TOTAL RND 1 RND 1 RND 2 RND 2 CCMB CONTESTS SCORE RESULTS POINTS RESULTS POINTS POINTSDavid Witt A 4 161 4 21 1 6 27
Ron Galea A 4 160 2 35 2 5 40
Mitchell Conwell A 3 135 0 0 0
Geoff Balken A 4 132 4 21 4 3 24
Dave Fibbins A 3 130 1 42 4 3 45
Jacob Boyd Skinner A 3 121 1 42 1 6 48
Phil Roxburgh A 3 115 0 0 0
Darren Boyd Skinner A 2 82 0 0 0
Dave Hayes A 2 80 3 28 2 5 33
John Sojoski A 2 78 0 0 0
Marshall Duncan A 2 65 0 0 0
Dave Fraser A 2 59 0 0 0
Terry Byrne A 1 35 0 0 0
Paul Johnson A 1 21 0 0 0
Don Blades B 4 127 3 28 3 4 32
Greg Byrne B 4 121 2 35 3 4 39
Dave Ryan B 3 117 0 0 0
Wayne Craven B 4 101 2 35 6 1 36
David Jones B 3 86 0 0 0
Dave Shearim B 3 80 4 21 6 1 22
Lachlan Jonquieas B 2 69 1 42 5 2 44
Clive Thomas B 2 61 0 0 0
Mitchell Hayes B 1 30 3 28 5 2 30
Darryl Saunders B 1 21 0 0 0
Matt Hippisley B 1 19 0 0 0
Mick Crowley B 1 18 0 0 0
Dan Daugaard B 1 15 0 0 0
Tony Bayliss C 1 18 0 0 0
Madi Daugaard C 1 17 0 0 0
Mick Jonquieas C 1 10 0 0 0
Dave Roberts ? 2 58 0 0 0
Stuart Fraser ? 2 57 0 0 0
Brian Findlay ? 1 30 0 0 0
Qty Total Result CCMB Contests Score Points
David Fibbins 3 143 1 48
Dave Ryan 3 143 0
Greg Byrne 3 140 2 47
Ron Galea 2 94 3 46
Clive Thomas 2 91 0
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Qty Total Result CCMB Contests Score Points
Dave Witt 4 192 1 48
Ron Galea 4 188 2 47
Jacob Boyd Skinner 3 138 3 46
Clive Thomas 2 86 0
Marshall Duncan 1 46 0
Anthony Hippisley 1 45 0
Matt Hippisley 1 44 0
Mick Crowley 1 43 0
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AUGUST 10 LAKES
SEPTEMBER 14 AVOCA
OCTOBER 12 LAKES
NOVEMBER 9 AVOCA
NOVEMBER 22 PRESO