Met Ray Moran today who showed me the ‘tip of an iceberg’ of surfing and life saving club artefacts, archives and research files held in the South Steyne SLSA clubhouse.
Was pretty impressed with this particular board – a knockout early 1960s gun by Surfboards Hawaii, shaped for Manly’s own monster wave rider Bob Pike by Pat Curren, according to Geoff Cater, or possibly by Dick Brewer himself, who visited the museum recently and claimed it as his own, according to Ray.
According to surfresearch Bob Pike is photographed riding this board on the cover of Surfabout 1964 (Vol 2, No 7). The design appears to have been influential in Sydney with Scott Dillon channeling its long lean Brewer lines for all of his subsequent Point Break Models (details supplied by Scott Dillon, per Geoff Cater).