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At the Avoca club day we were greeted at the shark tower

with some double overhead waves. After the coffee runs, and

a few chats to the CCMB eye in the sky, we decided to Surf

the more mal friendly bank at the Pines! Which turned out

to be a good call.

Due to the small roll up we trialed a new format having all

A and B graders surf against members in their grade for the

first round to give them a chance to gain maximum points,

and combined the grades in round two! Which surprisingly

worked well. Of course there was the odd laugh or two. This

time at my expense, forgetting to put my rashie on. This gave

me a clear points lead for the prestigious Gumby Award,

although I do have to thank Witty for the assist he gave me.

It didn’t click why he was smiling and laughing as we walked

down to the waters edge for the heat.

PUMPINGPINES

Journalism. A tough life.

Thanks to Wayne for the awesome BBQ cook up, it was

outstanding with a cold beverage at the end of the day! Is there

a better way to spend your Sunday? Big thanks to Peter at

Beachin Surf Toukley for the great raffle prizes he gives us every

month. He has a great selection of Mals and surf gear at the

store on Main Road, Toukley, so make sure you mention you

are from the club and Peter will look after you.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Leanne Witt for

the new club rashies that she scored for us from Adrenaline,

well done!

There are a couple of important dates to lock in for 2014. Last

year we had an awesome trip up to Crescent Head, it was so

much fun it’s on again, but you will need to get in early. The

date set down, is the weekend of the 17th and 18th of October

and the cost of the accommodation will be around the $70

mark for the Friday and Saturday night. Dave Shearim is in

charge so have a chat to him next club day, or you can contact

him on 0408 295 722. The presentation evening is locked in

for the 22nd of November, and will be at Davistown RSL.

The venue and food was fantastic last year, so don’t miss

this gala event and support our sponsors at the same time.

Next comp day is at the Lakes, so see you all there 7.00am at

the surf club. Now we are at the at the business end of the

season, I am looking forward to a good turn out.

The Prez

At the Avoca club day we were greeted at theshark tower with some double overhead waves.

big thanks to Peter atBeachin Surf Toukleyfor great raffle prizes...

I think your very dedicated scribe was up before the proverbial

sparrow’s gas emission, but I guess that’s another story. I think

my head still hurts a bit!

Hooked up the trailer (no, I didn’t forget!), and headed off for

Avoca car park for the usual 7.00 am SHARP start to our huge

July club day.

Did I say huge? A mighty crew of about 12 or 13 hardy surfers

made the very sound decision to head for the pines for a little

protection from a pretty brisk SW breeze and a very chewy

shark tower break.

Greg had previously decided to head off to Copa to check

things out when no sooner had he left than Donnie arrived

and let us know that we could forget Copa as it was absolute

rubbish. The Prez said not to bother to call Greg back thinking

he somehow needed to eventually find his way around the

district without a map!

Fortunately, for the most part, it was a pleasant, cool and

sunny winter’s morning with a considerable outside swell

rolling past on the horizon creating fairly clean inner waves at

our “secret spot” around the metre mark with an occasional

larger version sneaking in to catch the unwary.

Set-up was nice and quick and with an anticipated southerly

on its way up the coast it was decided with such a small crew

that we could get away with running three heats, old mals and

eight footers. And the heat/ scoring set-up? Greg’s system,

Ron’s system, Dave’s system, Geoff’s system and then back to

It was a pleasant, cool andsunny winter’s morning with aconsiderable outside swellrolling past on the horizon...

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Greg’s system. Talk about too many chefs! However, all was

sorted and I’m happy to report that this didn’t end in fisticuffs.

Some reasonable round 1 and 2 waves; however, from then on

things slowly deteriorated becoming a bit chewy and messy.

There were still a few decent waves that somehow held up for a

time to give a lucky surfer or two a reasonable tally at the end

of the day. (See Incident 1.)

Incidents...1: I guess an 11 on your scoresheet would look pretty

impressive even if a bit out of place, but this is what an

unnamed judge who was our ex prez (oops) gave to one of

our competitors. Fortunately picked up by our hardworking

tallier, Leanne, and dealt with accordingly. Unfortunately, I

think this was overlooked for a Gumby, but still should have

received a special commendation.

2: Drop-in! Courtesy of “what drop-in?” Hayzie. Observed

by many as seemingly a quite deliberate and predetermined

ploy to put “someone” off his game. Doubted it

worked though.

3: A Great Gumby if ever there was one. The Prez actually

managing to put together a full half heat before realising

that he had left his rashie back at the tent. Of course

that’s half a heat looking like a free surfer. I wonder how

many judges noticed. Dave Witt certainly did but very

cleverly kept it to himself. And I hear their supposed to

be good mates!

The Sick Bay...1: At the CCMB we have a saying (well, we have now), “if you’re

going to do a job, do it well”. In Fibbo’s case he certainly did.

Dave decided to part company with his heavy old mal at

Blue Bay and attempted to take a chunk out of the rail

(double layered no doubt) with his nose and cheek! This of

course didn’t come off as expected as the board definitely

had the last laugh. With a broken nose, a cheek totally

opened up and the right side of his face looking like a purple

football Dave certainly didn’t appear his usual dashing,

debonair and handsome self. Seriously though it looks like

he’s on the mend now with a pretty good effort in the water

on Sunday.

Lesson for today Dave, “never let your ambitions exceed

your capabilities”.

Although I’m not sure there ever was a surfer who has listened

to that one!

2: Dave Ryan (you know, the one with the hand held air horn!)

managed to injure his big toe somehow, went surfing, (as

silly little boys will do) and promptly reinfected it. This I hear

resulted in a very serious staph infection and a resultant

hospital treatment and recovery period. Another lesson here

I think? Hope you are recovering Dave and we see you at the

next club day.

3: Dave Shearim also has a few very restricting issues at the

moment with a hip problem that no surfer wants to have.

It’s currently causing him some discomfort to the point

where he had to pull out of the massive final rounds of

Sundays comp. Let’s hope this comes good also.

What a bunch of crocks, pays to do your best by your body as

we don’t have a reserve unit to slip into. Well, maybe, who

knows what science might come up with next!

Also must give public congratulations to the following

members who competed in the recent Snowy: Dave Witt, 4th,

Over 45’s and Simon Smith, 4th, Over 55’s. Great job fellas and

to think neither of you look a day over 65!

See you next month.

J.O. (Snr)

Fin: The short, sharp object attached to the bottom of your

board designed to maim or decapitate wayward body surfers.

As the bodysurfer problem has increased, so has the number of

these weapons employed on each board. As many as five are

considered necessary on summer Sundays at places like Bondi.

(With thanks to P.J.)

The ex-prez in disguise hiding in the long grass...

Will this be the finalclimactic conclusion to thisversion of the great sixtiessurfing saga?Or, is there more in the memory bank,

hiding away in those deep dark recesses of

my grey matter that will worm its

torturous way out and onto a few extra

pages somewhere in a future newsletter?

Only time (or someone sabotaging my

computer!) will reveal the final outcome

of this seemingly “never ending story”.

Old Guys Rule, so listen up kiddies and

humour me a little while I wander off into

the past again for a short time.

Sandshoes! Oh what great memories this

tiny almost beachless, very rocky local

surfspot conjures up in this old head. And

yes, it was a breeding ground for

thousands of sea urchins so some form of

footwear was absolutely essential at this

very shallow, reef break. As a few hardy

(or foolish) souls will attest to, sea urchin

spines penetrate deeply and are nasty

little devils to remove from the foot.

Halcyon days indeed for this bunch of

surfheads who’s only desire was to escape

the growing crowds that threatened to

take over almost every rideable (and

indeed non rideable) wave that caressed

the shores of the southern beaches.

We had, for a while, been testing the

waters of Sandshoes where some of the

older locals would go during times of

relatively small swell, when a new

member of our crew (Ian something) very

casually mentioned that his Mum had

taken over the council lease to operate

The Kiosk near the ocean pool in the park

overlooking the beach.

Naturally, what the reader should attempt

to keep in mind here is that we are

writing about a bunch of young teenagers

who would literally give their eyeteeth to

be able to rise with the sun and walk with

their boards tucked under their arms

about 20 metres (yards!) to what was

considered to be a pretty good, but less

ridden, local break on its day.

As we were a pretty likeable crew it didn’t

take much talking to get Mum (we did

call her that, with her blessing of course)

to agree for us to stay after close up, bring

the boards in, help clean up the place and

bunk down in the change rooms on the

benches with our blankets or sleeping

bags. Teenagers, no sense, no feeling! But

it was great fun!

I guess what had made this arrangement

even more worthwhile on our nights

there was that half a dozen surfie nuts

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were fed by Mum with all the leftovers

from the day’s kiosk activities. Teenage

heaven! Chiko rolls, chips, pies, milk

shakes, no wonder some of us had health

issues in later years!

But well fed we were, and after a short

time Mum was even bringing in Rice

Bubbles, bananas and milk after an early

surf “to make sure her boys didn’t go

hungry”. What an absolute angel this

Lady was and we returned her generosity

by being there as much as possible to

clean showers and toilets and tidy up

around the place before and after closing.

We spent many very happy weekends at

The Kiosk when we knew the surf was on

and were always the first in the water and

often the last out. Mum was something of

a mentor to most of us, taking us under

her wing when she thought there may

have been some trouble or other brewing.

During this time when the swell was too

big for Sandshoes and The Point was only

for the likes of Jacko, Frank Latta, Cowboy

Neill and their fearless crew we would

wander around to the Cronulla

(Gunnamatta Bay) wharf in Port Hacking,

board the ferry to Bundeena and around

three quarters of the way across jump off

the back and surf the long peely waves

across the sandbars that silted up that part

of the bay.

A short, but very tired paddle to

Bundeena, back on a return ferry, jump in

the ute or on the rattler and we were on

our way home.

Two things happened with that little

venture, (we managed about 12 months’

worth).

Firstly, my Dad found out, and we then

received a very firm lecture (he was a keen

fisherman) about the number of,

sometimes large sharks that either took

fish off lines or were inadvertently caught

by himself and locals alike around the

deep water off those banks.

Secondly, the ferry masters became sick

and tired of the surfies running around

their ferries trying to avoid a crew

member who wanted to catch and fine

these “dopey kids” for jumping off their

boat without completing the journey.

Initially we would paddle over to

Bundeena and catch the ferry back,

however they soon wised up to this and

on one particular occasion refused us the

return journey. It’s a long, hard hitchhike

(with boards) from Bundeena to Cronulla,

and for half a dozen cold and wet surfies

complete with boards our first experience

was to be our last as we all drifted into

Cronulla at various times after dark!

Unless we could gain some miraculous

access to a boat (which we definitely

couldn’t) or were willing to take a very

long paddle across the deep and dark

channel into the bay (which we definitely

decided we wouldn’t!) then the Port

Hacking Ferry, with boards impounded

for the journey, became a mere vessel to

gain entry into the Royal National Park

for further forays into mystical spots we

had only heard of by way of mouth from

the equally mystical local surf gurus.

Also around this time our mate Arthur

and his ute lost interest in the surfing

thing, so we were back to the rattlers (and

the authorities were starting to clamp

down on boards on trains), the thumb,

bike or a, sometimes “borrowed” parents

car.

Well, I think that this may be an

opportune time to take a bit of a break

from all this reminiscing, (or wandering)

and plug my overworked grey matter back

into the charger to try and regain a few

memory cells to start over again at a (not

too distant) later date.

That’s right, we’re securely locked into the

journey now, and so for good or bad it

looks like there will definitely be a Part 5!!

J.O. (Snr)

NAME GRADE QYT TOTAL RND 1 RND 1 RND 2 RND 2 CCMB CONTESTS SCORE RESULTS POINTS RESULTS POINTS POINTSDavid Witt A 4 161 4 21 1 6 27

Ron Galea A 4 160 2 35 2 5 40

Mitchell Conwell A 3 135 0 0 0

Geoff Balken A 4 132 4 21 4 3 24

Dave Fibbins A 3 130 1 42 4 3 45

Jacob Boyd Skinner A 3 121 1 42 1 6 48

Phil Roxburgh A 3 115 0 0 0

Darren Boyd Skinner A 2 82 0 0 0

Dave Hayes A 2 80 3 28 2 5 33

John Sojoski A 2 78 0 0 0

Marshall Duncan A 2 65 0 0 0

Dave Fraser A 2 59 0 0 0

Terry Byrne A 1 35 0 0 0

Paul Johnson A 1 21 0 0 0

Don Blades B 4 127 3 28 3 4 32

Greg Byrne B 4 121 2 35 3 4 39

Dave Ryan B 3 117 0 0 0

Wayne Craven B 4 101 2 35 6 1 36

David Jones B 3 86 0 0 0

Dave Shearim B 3 80 4 21 6 1 22

Lachlan Jonquieas B 2 69 1 42 5 2 44

Clive Thomas B 2 61 0 0 0

Mitchell Hayes B 1 30 3 28 5 2 30

Darryl Saunders B 1 21 0 0 0

Matt Hippisley B 1 19 0 0 0

Mick Crowley B 1 18 0 0 0

Dan Daugaard B 1 15 0 0 0

Tony Bayliss C 1 18 0 0 0

Madi Daugaard C 1 17 0 0 0

Mick Jonquieas C 1 10 0 0 0

Dave Roberts ? 2 58 0 0 0

Stuart Fraser ? 2 57 0 0 0

Brian Findlay ? 1 30 0 0 0

Qty Total Result CCMB Contests Score Points

David Fibbins 3 143 1 48

Dave Ryan 3 143 0

Greg Byrne 3 140 2 47

Ron Galea 2 94 3 46

Clive Thomas 2 91 0

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Qty Total Result CCMB Contests Score Points

Dave Witt 4 192 1 48

Ron Galea 4 188 2 47

Jacob Boyd Skinner 3 138 3 46

Clive Thomas 2 86 0

Marshall Duncan 1 46 0

Anthony Hippisley 1 45 0

Matt Hippisley 1 44 0

Mick Crowley 1 43 0

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AUGUST 10 LAKES

SEPTEMBER 14 AVOCA

OCTOBER 12 LAKES

NOVEMBER 9 AVOCA

NOVEMBER 22 PRESO