tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620952922253468884.post1040275114426931999..comments2024-03-21T07:28:52.437+00:00Comments on vintage surfboard collector UK: Welsh rarebitsalasdair lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12436406864316333588noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620952922253468884.post-89225809381959982052013-02-25T19:59:18.499+00:002013-02-25T19:59:18.499+00:00Seem to remember Chateaux 41's were sold throu...Seem to remember Chateaux 41's were sold through the Seaweed Surf Shop on the <br />Cowbridge Road, Canton , Cardiff?<br /><br />Thought I'd add my two pence worth re the '72 Universities Contest. At that time <br />there were still only a handful of us surfing in Pembrokeshire so news of this <br />contest coming here and the chance to watch Tigger Newling was massive. I <br />persuaded my mum, who must have been bored stupid, to drive me (in our Austin <br />Westminster, I was too young to drive) both days to watch.<br /><br />In fact on the Saturday the contest was moved from Whitesands to Newport, <br />between Fishguard and Cardigan (not Newquay as Tony remembers). This faces the <br />same way as Whitesands but gets less swell and it was held in grey, on-shore <br />waves. I believe that the Paul Anderson (known as 'PA') that came 3rd is the <br />father of Tom Anderson, the excellent author of "Riding the Magic Carpet" etc...<br /><br />The Universities was held again in Whitesands in '73 and then moved to <br />Freshwater West in '74. I entered in '74 even though I was still in school <br />(riding a 6' Tiki single fin, swallow tail), and the organisers happily took my <br />entry fee. When I reached the semis I was told that I had to be surfing for a <br />University or College (could this be that students didn't want to be beaten by a <br />school kid?), so as I was in the process of applying for college (I didn't go <br />until '79) for some reason I was quickly re-entered as representing Southampton <br />University. <br /><br />If memory serves me right I came second in the final to (I think) Paul Heinz <br />(?), ironically if I had 'represented' a Welsh college I would have won the <br />highest placed Welsh surfer trophy too! Are the results in a magazine somewhere?<br /><br />I eventually did win the Universities in both '80 and '82 (surfing for Bristol <br />Poly, the same as Tigger!), riding a Roger Cooper twin fin, (I still blame my <br />then girl friend, who is now my wife, for insisting on a pub lunch in <br />Perranporth for my dipping out in my semi in '81, a couple of pints and a <br />ploughman's is never a good combination before a surf - Kelly take note!).<br />Thanks to Tim Harvatt for his memoriesalasdair lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12436406864316333588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620952922253468884.post-89655595691209381022013-02-08T10:31:10.650+00:002013-02-08T10:31:10.650+00:00nice boards budnice boards budtaffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620952922253468884.post-90382095119425842992013-02-08T00:27:51.140+00:002013-02-08T00:27:51.140+00:00Pete BoundsPete BoundsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com