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The Sunday Telegraph
Sydney, January 7 1968, page 47.

MAKAHA EFFORT TICKLES PETER
From Bob Evans, in Hawaii

The Makaha International championships are over once again and the Australian surfers who competed showed good sportsmanship and top ability in the beautiful 6ft. to 10ft. waves.

Our star representative was 18-year-old Peter Drouyn of Surfers Paradise, Queensland.
Because of his standing as runner-up in the Australian titles at Bells Beach last Easter, be was given a seeding directly into the quarter-finals.

Another young surfer, Rodney Sneed, also of Surfers Paradise, who did not submit an official entry, but competed as a substitute for another Australian competitor who was not able to make the trip, also made the quarterfinals.
However, officials ruled that his status was illegal and requested he withdraw, leaving Drouyn our sole representative.

Peter Drouyn had shown, during the two weeks before the championships that he was going to be a man worth watching.
At Pipeline, Sunset, Haleiwa and in the 18-foot bone-crushers of beautiful Honolua Bay on the island of Maui, he had given notice that he was the most aggressive performer to become involved with Hawaii's big winter waves this season.

Riding a special pin-tail board he had helped to construct only the day previously, he went into the water against Mike Doyle, Paul Strauch Jun., Buffalo Keoulana, Rick Steere, Jock Sutherland, George Downing, Rusty Miller, John Peck, Corky Carroll, and many others.

Drouyn won his quarterfinal and semi-final and on the last sunlit day of offshore breeze and eight-foot ground swell, entered the water for the final against Joey Cabell (1963 champ), Fred Hemmings (1966 champ), Ben Aipa and Leroy Ah Choy.

• Fighting white water

Drouyn was the only non-Hawaiian to reach the final after more than 450 surfboarders from all parts of the world - South Africa, Hawaii, Peru, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, had been eliminated.
All the finalists knew Makaha's tricky waves like the back of their hand, but Peter had learned well during the preliminaries and on every wave, took the most difficult ride as inside man and usually fighting white water well overhead.

Aipa chose the less difficult inside waves and Leroy Ah Choy twice lost his board for points-destroying long swims.
Fred Hemmings was very strong and pulled off one spectacular re-entry and also a great noseride in the back washy white water near shore.
Cabell was canny and was careful to take waves usually on his own.

On the few waves he had to himself, Drouyn was brilliant, swinging smoothly and confidently and always just behind the curl.
It was obvious to the very big crowd that Hemmings, Drouyn and Cabell were locked in a tense struggle and they cheered and applauded every great ride.

The judges deliberated and Cabell took the crown for the second time.
Hemmings was second and Drouyn, third.

Many critics felt that Drouyn had made second but a close look at the points scores indicated that by playing the game too hard, by being so far back in the wave, Peter had actually restricted himself to a position where another rider could steal the limelight and the Judges' attention by being just free of the dangerous white water and free to handle the wave in an unrestricted way.

One judge marked Peter first, three judges as third and one as fifth.
Needless to say, Peter Drouyn is overjoyed with his third placing and the Hawaiian surfing fraternity loud in their praise of still another fine competitor

Evans, Bob: Makaha effort tickles Peter.
The Sunday Telegraph, January 7 1968, page 47.
- JC/GC, April 2014.

The Sunday Telegraph
Sydney, January 14 1968, page 90.

THE TRUTH ABOUT 'SUPER' STUBBIES
By Bob Evans

SURFERS everywhere keep asking me the same question: "How did the Australian 'stubby' boards fare in the power surf of the Hawaiian Islands?

Obviously, these boards have been a giant success back here and no doubt our egos would be boosted if the word came through that the international surf set had given them the green light.

I would be wrong to say that they were either a success or a failure over there.
Bob McTavish's appearance and apparent failure in the Duke Kakanamoku Professionals would seem to indicate that his little board was a mistake.

However, George Downing, who is the most knowledgeable surf man in Hawaii, told me that he was particularly impressed with many of Mac's tight maneuvers on the extremely critical waves of Sunset.
Downing indicated that the problems that Mac was having with his turns and follow-through was a matter of modification to suit Sunset's particular wave.

• IMPRESSED

Downing told me he was particularly impressed by the speed achieved coming out of the turns and recognized that the board was designed to give maximum flexibility up and down the face of a steep wave, rather than across the wall.

Nobody on the beach at Haleiwa, the day of the big swell, could fail to be impressed by Nat Young's powerful bursts of climbing and dropping.
It is true that Nat was riding the shoulder of the wave and he was criticised to many onlookers for not being way back in the wave and conforming to the pattern that most of the other 50 riders were using.

The fact is that Nat had selected the extremely steep and hollow shoulder to try out the theory he had put into his board.
He was involved in some heavy competition with surfers, who disputed his claim to the shoulder, but not another rider in the water was turning off the wave bottom with such acceleration or diving so vertically straight down the face.

Obviously, there is a degree of specialisation in the stubby, vee-bottom design.
However, the same thing must be said about the highly favored American pin-tails, which are touted as the big design break-through over there.

The pin-tails are fantastic for turning control and speed when well back against a very tight curl, but as soon as they zoom out onto a thickening shoulder, their efficiency decreases about 50 percent.
Planing speed drops sharply and the forward rails become & big problem when cutting back.

To me, the most positive answer to the question on the "super stubbies'* was provided by Peter Drouyn, at Honolua Bay on the island of Maui.
On a 9ft. 3in. stubby, built by Atlas-Woods in Auckland, New Zealand, and shaped a by star rider, Wayne Parkes, Peter turned on a wonderful three hours of power surfing in waves that, at times, reached over 15 feet.
During this surfing session, five boards were broken in halves, which is testimony to the power of the waves.

For the final hour, Drouyn had the whole bay to himself.
I filmed every aspect of his performance on the "stubby" and I am confident that (sic, of) the possibilities of this little board.

Evans, Bob: The truth about 'Super' Stubbies.
The Sunday Telegraph, January 14 1968, page 96.
- JC/GC, April 2014.

The Canberra Times
18 January 1968, page 23.

Ride a White Horse

BOB EVANS presents a unique and exciting Australian SURF ADVENTURE in COLOR & WIDE SCREEN!
Featuring Australia's world beating surf action performers . . .
BERNARD 'MIDGET' FARRELLY, 'NAT YOUNG, BOB McTAVISH, PETER DROUYN (G.)

Plus in Color, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise in WHAT HAPPENED AT CAMPO GRANDE? (G)

Tomorrow at 1 and 7.45, Saturday at 2 and 7.45, Sunday at 8, Monday at 7.45.
NOTE: No Intermediate Session Saturday.

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1968 'Advertising', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 18 January, p. 23. , viewed 23 Mar 2019,
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The Sunday Telegraph
Sydney, January 21 1968, page 70.

ECHOES FROM HAWAII
By Bob Evans

LAST echoes of the Hawaii 1968 scene are still reaching me.

Bob McTavish has taken off for California with George Greenough to check out the beautiful coastline around Greenough's house at Santa Barbara.
Bob will be one of the very few surfers fortunate enough to tour the unknown offshore islands with Greenough, the only guy who has the clues on those barren, mystical, magical locations.

I spent some time with Tim Murdoch, of Auckland, in Hawaii.
Tim writes that he just spent a week on the Island ot Kaui, nearby to Joey Cabell's home at Hanelei Bay.
Renowned as the longest surf in the islands and also the prettiest, Hanelei performed at sizes between 3ft. and 8ft., with swell moving across the bay for a distance of 800 yards.

Kaui was lush and green and, though you may not be aware, is the wettest spot on earth.
One day last week it rained six Inches in one hour. It is not unusual for a recording of 600 inches a year.

Peter Drouyn, Honolula Bay, Maui, December 1967.
- riding Wayne Parkes' 9ft 3in Atlas-Woods (NZ) "stubby."
Photograph: Bob Evans (digitally adjusted).
The Sunday Telegraph, January 21 1968, page 70.

Nat Young and Ted Spencer returned home this week from Maui.

Everyone seems to agree that Maui is the high point of the whole Hawaiian scene ... a quieter but, more stylishly, relaxed way of life than that rather catch-as-catch-can existence that surfers are subjected to on Oahu's north shore.

Nat has a renewed fervor on board design.
He was impressed with the surf of Honolua Bay and studied the limitations ot surfboard performance on those near-perfect waves.
He is confident that now is the time to put into effect his long-considered plans on a flexible board.

Gordon Woods is producing the board.
Because of the degree of personal specialisation required Nat will handle the delicate job of shaping.
However, it is important to stress that the flexible nose and tail areas are touching on design features which are strictly experimental.

Peter Drouyn, who brought back the only Hawaiian pin-tail board, has found that the bigger swell days at Burleigh Heads, on the Gold Coast, are quite capable of giving enough power to make the board perform.
Capitalising on the impact the board has made on the Gold Coast a range of custom surf gear has appeared on the scene appropriately labelled "Pin-tails."

With another possible tropical cyclone developing off the Queensland coast, everyone up north has headed for Noosa Heads.

Evans, Bob: Echoes from Hawaii.
The Sunday Telegraph, January 21 1968, page 70.
- JC/GC, April 2014.

The Canberra Times
23 January, p. 11.

FOUND

FOUND on Coast road Sat plastic surf board, VW owner.
Phone 93798.

Trove
1968 'Advertising', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 23 January, p. 11. , viewed 11 Sep 2016,
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The Sunday Telegraph
Sydney, January 28 1968, page 83.

Big waves test courage, fitness
. . . says Bob Evans

SYDNEY'S most famous summer surf is returning to form at last - I mean North Narrabeen.

This summer has been the first to my knowledge when the great "Shark Alley" has not performed almost daily.
Local surfers were throwing their hats in the air this week as the familiar wrapping lines came marchine across from the point.

Just a few weeks back on the island of Oahu, similar expressions of joy were among the big wave fanciers of Waimea Bay.
If you could envisage the type of sea that was making these "salt water mountaineers" jump up and down, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking they were stark raving mad.

In Australia we Just don't get the type of surf and weather conditions that were happening that day.
The sun was shining out of a blue sky that occasionally was crossed by a few fast-flying trade wind clouds; the breeze was a light offshore northeaster and the swell was a fantastic 25ft average.

The shorebreak was unbelievable - 12ft high, 50ft. thick and thundering straight out of the deep water to destroy itself on the steep sloping, crushed coral beach.

• Earth shook

So powerful, in fact, that one could feel the earth shaking under every colossal impact.
Intending surfers had to negotiate this shorebreak before making it to the main surfing area a quarter mile out-side.

Losing your board on this day was about as big a physical and psychological test as one man could be subjected to.

The most audacious of Hawaii's big surf riders must be Jose Angel, who will take off on any wave and from any position, hopeless or otherwise the bottom (25ft. down) while two complete waves passed overhead.
Fred Van Dyke, who dived deep to escape a giant close-out set, saw one ton boulders on the ocean floor being moved by the power of the swell.

- JC/GC, April 2014

The Sunday Telegraph
Sydney, February 4 1968, page 116.

Surfers a go go set movie pace
By Bob Evans

ONE doesn't have to listen very hard to hear the cry that Australia has no movie industry . . . the cry of "why doesn't the Government get behind it'' etc.

However, it seems there is a pretty considerable bit of action going on right now in the development of the local movie scene.

And would you believe the little ''backyard" 16-millimetre surfing adventure boys have been amongst the busiest of them all.

I'll bet it comes as a surprise that outside of Weird Mob and Journey Out of Darkness, the only full feature, general exhibition films produced in Australia in five years have been the surfing movies.

Don't tell me it hasn't stirred the mob into action.
Just look at the present crop of "Woomeras In the Wilderness" back-of-beyond bonanzas that have floated screen-wise in the last 13 months.

Interesting and successful as they are, and have been, it's the epics of the waves and wipe-outs that are the pioneers and have set the pace.
Leading the international race has been California's Bruce Browne (sic, Brown), with record-shattering Endless Summer.

Hot on his heels, British Empire Films and I are reaching for a wide appreciative audience by taking the surf and surfers of our country to cities and towns right across our diverse nation and, in wide screen.
Far from resting up, we already have embarked upon the construction of another feature, which will take in a surf and adventure discovery route that would have gladdened the heart of Captain Cook.

Hawaii, for openers and then off to Mauritius, Madagascar, Reunion Island, South Africa, West Africa, Canary Islands, Portugal, France, Spain and the Jersey Islands.
Writer Ted Roberts is cooking up a shooting script that will involve Peter Drouyn and a young Australian beach girl in a series of international incidents that will make Walter Mitty look like he wasn't trying.

The new surfing areas of the world will be the theme, but Peter will be part of the Festival of the Bulls in Pamplona (Italy), he also will be a legionnaire, a big game-hunter, a Watusi tribal dancer, participant In an ancient barbaric ritual in Madagascar, a cave explorer in the Canary Islands, a canoe racer In Zanzibar, a crewman on an Arab dhow trading to Reunion Island.

Adventure and far-out action will fill the three months of his life while he is not testing the prolific parade of unsung surfing locations in the world.

As yet, no decision has been made on who the girl lead will be, but she will wear an Australian-designed fashion wardrobe that will be an eye-stoper in any country.
And Drouyn will have the gear to prove that the casual, young Australian can fit smoothly into any scene from surf to social swing-out.

- JC/GC, April 2014

The Canberra Times
10 February 1968, page 21.

SURFBOARD 9'9", good board $40 ono. Ph 813131.

SURF-board 9' 3", Gordon Woods, good cond $60 o.n.o.

SURF board' 9ft 3in Casey, 3- stringers, good cond.
33A Cowper St, Ainslie.

SURFBOARD, 9*6", Keyo, $65. Phone 92778.

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1968 'Advertising', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 10 February, p. 21. , viewed 11 Sep 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131665110

The Sunday Telegraph
Sydney, February 11 1968, page 84.

Board stars of the past
By BOB EVANS

NOT long before the recent death of the world-renowned DUKE PAO KAHANOMOKU, I had the chance to speak to him at Waikiki Beach, Honolulu.

The Duke was reminiscing quietly about some of his old associates in Australia.
Though not particularly aware of the developments of recent years, he aid express some knowledge of Australia's so-called long-board era and some of the principals riders of that time.

It made me aware that perhaps we surfers of today haven't parsed on enough credit to these guys and the fabulous surfing era between 1940 and 1956 ... the year of the Melbourne Olympics, the end of the long-board and the beginning of the MALIBU era.

Duke specifically referred to the Morath brothers, a great swimiming and surfing family.
Lou Morath, who was a member of the first Australian surfing team to visit Hawaii in 1939, hailed from Manly Club.
Lou had a beautiful, smooth style and was one of the few local riders able to change direction abruptly.

• SPIT "SURF"

At the Bower, or in the fabulous Manly corner surf of the 1940s, he showed his best form and also has the distinction of riding Middle Harbor during giant storm surf, when waves broke right across the Heads and steep swell continued all the way up the Harbor toward the Spit Bridge.

Manly beach had a great team of wave-chasers in those days.
Harry Wick, Bossie Sutton, Ray Lelghton, "Bullet" Beckenham, Jimmie Austin, Fred Notting, Roger Duck, "Spider Moore, Johnny Windshuttle, Jimmie Parlett, Rex Andrews, Dick Windshuttle, Sammy Moore.

From Bondi Beach hailed the vanguard of the performance riders of the time, capably headed by the best of all toothpick merchants, Jack "Bluey" Mayes
Other notable men from this beach were Roy Ferguson, Frank Stroud, Zell Frack, Ray Young, Keith Hurst, "Bull-ant" Reynolds, Dick Chapple, Ray Hookham and Ken East.
A slightly later period revealed Ross Kelly, Scotty Dillon, Barry McGuigan.

From Bronte, Bill Wallace, Serge Denman and Peter Frost were the acknowledged masters of this difficult, big wave beach.

Coogee had Peter Wilson, who stood out as their best ever boardman.

Maroubra, with the help of Frank Adler, launched their beach Into a period of outstanding surfboard work, the notables to emerge being the Mulcahey brothers of board and ski renown, George Bishop, George Edwards and, later, the fantastic surfboard racer, Ross Hazleton.

Another beach, which developed some, top riders was Queenscliff, where I learned most of my own.

- JC/GC, April 2014.

The Canberra Times
17 February 1968, page 23.

"KEYO" surfboard 9' 6" Stringer.
Phone 71704 after 4.30pm.

SURFBOARD, Gordon Woods, 9ft 7in, clean, with single stringer.
Excellent condition. $65.
Contact B. Stoyles, Gowrie Private Hotel. Phone 496033.

SURF boards, new radical shapes (V-backs), custom built to your specifications.
481336, business hours.

SURFBOARD Gordon and Smith 9' 6", good condition, 4 months old $80.
19 Oxley St, Griffith.

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1968 'Advertising', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 17 February, p. 23. , viewed 11 Sep 2016,
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The Sunday Telegraph
Sydney, February 18 1968, page 108.

Rincon... it s a "frozen asset"
By Bob Evans

ALL kinds of news arrived this week from Australian surfers overseas.

Bronte man Lee Cross, reports from Santa Barbara of 52 degree water, 42 degree air and Rincon pouring through at all sizes between 5ft. to 8ft. with superb, glassy surface conditions.
Lee said the weather was unbelievably bad including snow on the low mountains just behind the city of Santa Barbara.

However, Lee said this cut down the crowd and the big Australian contingent almost had exclusive rights to the Rincon waves ... one of the best-shaped surfing areas in the world.

Australians testing the Californian winter at the moment are Ted Wilson, Charlie Cardiff, Roy Banks (looks like he will never come home), Bill Dawson and Bob McTavish.

• Standards

McTavish is reported to be really setting new standards for performance, the Australian style of surfing and, in particular, the Australian-type surf board.
V-bottoms, shorter length, are really reaching the industry over there.

Hobie is marketing a new Australian-type board to be designated a "MINI-BOARD" and George Downing and Fred Hemmings, the big men in Hawaiian surfing, have been testing pin-tail boards (not much longer than eight feet) in powerful Hawaiian waves reaching over ten feet.

McTavish and George Greenough have a new flexible-backed special which, up to this time has not been tested.

Lee Cross says that photographs of Australian surfing, usually cut-outs from Sydney's Surfing World, are required pasteups in all the top California board shops and, among the enthusiast fraternity, the names of many of our better riders are becoming as well known in California, as all the best-publicised American riders were back in the "old days" of the sport here.

As we noted in Hawaii a couple of months back, the "Hippy" scene is well spread along the coast areas.
Indeed, they seem to congregate very close to the water, which, in most cases, seems to infer a very strange and unusual relationship.

Evans, Bob: Rincon... it s a "frozen asset"
The Sunday Telegraph, February 18 1968, page 108.
- JC/GC, April 2014.

Victor Harbour Times
SA, 10 May 1968, page 2.

SURF Board for sale, John Arnold New-era shape.
Ph. Port Elliot 4 2029 or 4 2086.

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1968 'Advertising', Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986), 10 May, p. 2. , viewed 11 Sep 2016,
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The Australian Women's Weekly
Wednesday 16 October 1968, page 3.

At 15, Judy is a champion board-rider ...

A GIRL WHO RULES THE WAVES
By MARGARET ANN KANDAL

SIX years ago a cult swept Australia.
It brought with it new jargon for the teenagers' already revolutionary vocabulary-words such as "gas," "king," "noah," "gremlin," and "femlin."

New signs, appeared on beaches showing restricted areas for the cult. Songs and dances were dedicated to it.
And most probably sales of lemons and bleaches went up because of it.

Six years ago saw the boom of surfboard-riding.
Young people no longer went to the closest beach for a dip or a swim.
They followed the sun and went where the best waves were.

But though board-riding is gaining immense popularity it is still not recognised as a national sport, despite the fact that Australia has provided two of the three world champions to date.

Judy Trim knows just how hard it is to get financial support, and she's the Australian Women's Open Surf- board Champion!
For months she has been seeking sponsorship so she can enter the 1968 international championships in Puerto Rico from November 6-14.

JUDY TRIM at Dee Why beach, N.S.W.,
with her board.
She's been seeking sponsorship to compete in
the 1968 international championships overseas.

Pictures by staff photographer Keith Barlow

[Not reproduced]
CHAMPION Judy with her trophies for both
the N.S.W. and National board championships.

It could be her age- after all, she only recently turned 15.

Unfortunately she has come good in a bad year, because the financial support usually given to sport by companies has been directed to the Olympic appeal.
Then again, she's a female board rider.

Judy is what one would call a typical Australian girl -long, gently sun-bleached blond hair, large hazel eyes, and a scattering of freckles on her rather babyish face.
She has a golden year round tan.
She's very shy.

"Unknown"

It was only early this year that Judy was persuaded by friends to enter her first contest - the New South Wales Championships at Wollongong.
Very few of the surfing fraternity had heard of the young rider from Dee Why, and the 1967 winner, Lynn Stubbins, was reported to be a long way ahead of any of her rivals.

Even when Judy won, it was simply reported as "Lynn Stubbins went down to an almost unknown surfer."
A few months later she entered the Australian Championships, competing against such experienced surfers as Phyllis O'Donnell and Gail Couper.

Judy won the title, but it was no easy victory.
The contest took place at Long Reef, Sydney, in a huge surf whipped up by cyclonic southerly gales.
Waves were nine and ten feet high, and during the gruelling week of heats she had to use every trick she knew to stay on.
Judges acclaimed her as "world class in the making" and her performance was highly praised by experts Bob Evans and "Snow" Mc Alister.

Judy was also awarded the special Duke Kahanamoku Award, given for the first time in Australia to the most improved surfboard rider of the year.

"I got my first board for my 11th birthday," she said, "but I've had two since then.
A friend who makes them gave me my new one when I won the championship.
"No, nobody ever taught me to ride - I just learnt by watching everyone else."

Judy loves surfing.
She wears no wetsuit during the winter months, the season she prefers as the best time to surf, when the tides and winds give a bigger, better roll to a wave.

Judy thinks school life is very important, and should come before anything else.
She wants to do her Higher School Certificate and make a career for herself in commercial art, preferably lettering.

Not a tomboy

Whatever the weather, she's down at the beach almost every afternoon as soon as school's over.
All her weekend is taken up with surfing, too.

"She would live and die for the surf," said her mother, "but she's still very interested in school.
She's never taken up with dolls or girls' activities at all.

"And now she's become known as the only girl who rides like a boy."

She handles her board with ease, swinging it up and on to her head to carry it the few hundred yards from her home at Dee Why, Sydney, to the beach.
Yet she is not at all tomboyish, even in jeans and board shorts.

One of the most important things before you get a board is to be a good, strong swimmer.
Judy is.
She has been top champion in her age group at the Dee Why Swimming Club a couple of times.

Her greatest wish is to represent Australia overseas.

Originally the International Surfing Federation was allowing only four Australian surfers to compete in the world championships in November.

Following protests, this number has now been raised to a team of seven men and three girls, with two reserves.

The International Surfing Federation has agreed to pay for two male team members and a judge accompanying them, but the others have either to find their own sponsor or pay their fares themselves.
Judy has been selected as the number one girl to go.

Accommodation would be no problem to Judy because the Puerto Rican Government is providing that free for the duration of the contest.
They have specially built bungalows on Rincon Beach, where the competitions will be held.

But at the moment nobody holds much hope that Judy, the champion without a sponsor, will be able to go.

Trove
1968 'A GIRL WHO RULES THE WAVES.', The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 16 October, p. 3, viewed 18 April, 2014, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51553744

Judy Trim (1953-2018)
After winning the 1968 NSW Championships at Wollongong, Dee Why's Judy Trim placed first at the Australian titles held in solid surf at Long Reef, Sydney.
Although qualifying for the 1968 World Championships in Peurto Rico, she did not compete due to a lack of suitable sponsorship.
Judy Trim placed third in the 1969 Australian Titles at Margaret River, WA, and first in the 1970 NSW and Australian Championships in Queensland.

Her contest success saw her join the Shane Gang in 1968, along with Russell Hughes, Ted Spencer, Butch Cooney, and Peter Cornish.
Shane Surfboards was one of the largest and progressive manufacturers in Brookvale at the time.

Laurie McGinness, an editor of Surfing World in the 1970s, recalled in 2005 that Judy Trim was about the only girl surfer on the northern beaches from the mid-sixties through to the early seventies when the male dominated culture finally got to her.
Given her contest record and the performance level she achieved it's surprising how rarely she gets a mention in surfing history, but then again she pretty much despised the whole scene by the time she gave it away so I suppose she is happier to be forgotten.

In June 2005, Judy Trim posted on Facebook:
andrew, judy trim of sydney australia. surfed every day from my 11th birthday on til late 20s, won a couple aus titles, is one in sydney when i was 14... not highly competitive but that made me happy.
point of reason i m writing is i love the still shot of steffie gilmore on the single fin with yellow rails. i had one just like it in 1972 and that board and i loved greenmount, phyliss odonnell and her partner josette were kind enough to let me stay with them and thats when i fell in love with greenmount, forever grateful to those great surfing women..
i want to buy the gilmore superimposed with michael p. and the book of her photos by u and stories? i must have it ,,true,, i m 60 now and her surfing is fantastic.could u inbox me a s a p as i have a birthday in august and i want these items as a gift to myself haha.. true, can u inbox me a s a p.
i surfed in i970 world titles near bells beach in aust. the girls got the shittiest surf eva, so it s so great things have finally changed.
u can find me on facebook. i have a white staffy sitting on my lap as my cover shot. talk soon. keep warm and keep up the great art judy trim

She listed her education as Narrabeen Girls High School, home town as Dee Why, and current city as Sydney, Australia.
Her Professional Skills was Brain Surgeon.
https://www.facebook.com/people/Judy-Trim/100004976086075

The Canberra Times
12 November 1968, page 22

Australian surfers well up

RINCON, Puerto Rico, Monday (AAP Reuter). — Five Australians today qualified for the semi-finals of the world surfing contest.
Defending world champion Nat Young led off the beginning of the day's elimination by catching the first wave in his heat.

In the eighth heat, Wayne Lynch displayed a superior knowledge of wave contour and edge control and beat the Hawaiian and Californian entries for an easy first place.

The other Australians qualifiers are Midget Farrelly, Russell Hughes and Keith Paull.
Some observers were believed unhappy with arrangements for the contest.
One said helicopters over head flattened the surf.

Trove
1968 'Australian surfers well up.', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 12 November, p. 22, viewed 8 March, 2015,
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The Canberra Times
14 November 1968, page 40.

Surfs not up!
RINCON. Puerto Rico, Wednesday (AAP Reuter). —
Small, slow surf caused postponement yesterday for the second successive day of the men's semi-finals in the world surfing championships.
To pass the time and provide entertainment for the spectators on the beach, a 5,000-metre paddling race was staged, featuring surfing personalities, Peter Drouyn of Australia, George Downing of Hawaii. Felipe Pomas of Peru and Californians Bill Mount, Kenny Lynn and Jerry Bennette.
The Californians swept the first three places in the race.

Trove
1968 'Surf's not up!', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 14 November, p. 40. , viewed 23 Mar 2019,
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The Canberra Times
16 November 1968, page 32

Farrelly second in surf titles

RINCON, Puerto Rico, Friday (AAP-Reuter).— Fred Hemmings of Hawaii barely edged out Australia's Midget Farrelly yesterday to win the world's surfing championship in a decision that surprised everyone - including the champion.

Hemming's performance in the first good surf in four days was judged to be two points better than Farrelly's.
Australian Russell Hughes finished third.

Defending champion Nat Young of Australia was fourth, Mike Doyle of California fifth and Reno Abellero of Hawaii sixth.

The heavily favoured Australians held a big edge in points at the completion of this morning's semi finals but, despite graceful rides by Farrelly and Hughes in the finals, they could not maintain their lead.

Trove
1968 'Farrelly second in surf titles.', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 16 November, p. 32, viewed 8 March, 2015,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1369557

The Canberra Times
24 December 1968, page 16.

Surf win to Doyle

HONOLULU, Monday, (AAP). —
California's Mike Doyle rode Sunset Beach's 15-foot waves to victory yesterday in the Duke Kahanamoku surfing classic.

Ricky Gregg of Hawaii was second, with the current world champion surfer, Fred Hemmings jr of Hawaii third.

  
                        In fourth place was Peru's Felipe Pomar, followed by Nat Young of Australia and defending champion Jock Sutherland of Hawaii.

Trove
1968 'Surf win to Doyle', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 24 December, p. 16. , viewed 09 Apr 2018,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136962676

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