This Surf scene from 1984 is the first Britsh mag to feature a female surfer on the cover. The surfer is Jersey's Arlene Maltman, British champ in 1984, although this mag says Arlene is also Europes leading lady. Arlene got a good sponsership deal from British Airways, and was part of a surge of British female talent in the 80s. She still surfs and competes today.
Heres an article from Surfers journal about a guy who found one of Arlene's boards at a dump in the US, and eventually traced her to learn its history .
Arlene, mid 80s
This Surf scene from 1984 is the first Britsh mag to feature a female surfer on the cover. The surfer is Jersey's Arlene Maltman, British champ in 1984, although this mag says Arlene is also Europes leading lady. Arlene got a good sponsership deal from British Airways, and was part of a surge of British female talent in the 80s. She still surfs and competes today.
Heres an article from Surfers journal about a guy who found one of Arlene's boards at a dump in the US, and eventually traced her to learn its history .
Arlene, mid 80s
Mark who wrote the article emailed me to say that he has presented the board back to Arlene, and it may be heading for the museum of British surfing, a good end to the story.
ReplyDeleteHi Alasdair
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post. The board is now in Cabo San Lucas at my Dad's house. I am hoping to pick it up one of these days and have a surf on it then bring it home to the museum. Follow me on Facebook and I will also let you know how it all goes! Hopefully British Airways will bring it back! Arlene
Hi Arlene,
ReplyDeletegood to hear from you, hope you have a good surf on it after all those years; must be one of the only boards to be sponsered by BA so they should bring it back for free ! Met an old friend of yours in Fuerte, can't remember his first name but his surname is Doak and he says you used to work for him.