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Manly Beach




Shooting the Breakers, Manly. Hall & Co.
Body surfing at Manly Beach  circa 1905
 Hall & Co. Postcard, Postmarked February 1908.


First surf carnival at Manly, 25th January 1908.
Margan and Finney  pages 54 -55


Belly board, surf skis, hollow board and others, Manly Beach circa 1951.
Photograph probably Ray Leighton
Longhurst, page 79.

Images above : Midget Farrelly -  Classic cutback, World Contest, Manly 1964.
Note that these photographs are often captioned to infer that they were taken during the Final.
They were taken in an earlier preliminary round, Midget wore shirt #2 in the final.
Right : Ross Perrott, from Farrelly : This Surfing Life,  page 12
Left :Jack Eden, First printed in Surfabout Magazine, 1964
The multi stringered foam board was strongly influenced by Phil Edwards'designs.

Fairy Bower(geographical)
pre - 1956 Unknown, but certainly ridden before  as many photographs of hollow boards show.

Round 3? 1974 Coke Contest Nat gets barrelled. Reference : On Any Morning



Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Boat : Cabbage Tree 1,
Captain : John Windshuttle
Fairy Bower, 27th March, 1966.
Brawley, page 148.
The boat was destroyed two waves later,
and an inquiry was held by the club into the actions of the crew.

Queenscliff Bombora (geographical)
circa 1940 Freshwater Boat crew,
circa 1945 Claude West - from the Manly Surf boat,
1963  Dave Jackman. Reference : Pollard



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