Surf Research Information

Unfortunately this site and blog is no longer online. MIA, circa 1999: My first contact was a highly complimentary email from Rod Rogers of Baltimore, Maryland, who had recently begun his web page, My Paipo Boards and ... More, now at http://mypaipoboards.org/ Unfortunately, the original has disappeared from my files. I clearly remember your early pages as they were one of the few to contain any paipo information much less so much rich data on surfing. Although Surfresearch.com is a messy, cut-rate, hard-to-use site (at least of this writing), it is by far the best single source of information for early Australian surf history. - Matt Warshaw: History of Surfing (2010) Sources, page 479. Hey SURF RESEARCH how about you apply your Anglophilic focus to surfing by our Sydney region Guring-gai and Darawhal Kooris. I know you find this unpallatable. Hint; Start with Kayee mai Gal clan (Manly) at Bombora (place where waves Thunder) maybe quote a credible witness, say an Officer of His Majesty"s Navy or two (Easily found just look). Also consider Marou-Bora and Wamberal (Wam-Bora) by Tarra Gal clan. Dont be shy now ...you can apply your Menzies era view of the world to some real surfresearch. To Mr Cater, the true champion of the sport. - Nick Carroll, handwritten dedication in Phil Jarrat's Australia's Hottest Surfing Legends (2011) page 106, Freshwater SLSC, 2012. Geoff, I just love your research, keep it up. Geoff Cater's great website surfreserach.com.au (sic) has been an invaluable resource, and many times all lines of inquiry, and Google searches, seemed to lead me back to it. I'm pleased to learn the National Library of Australia has seen fit to archive this treasure. - Tim Baker: Acknowledgements, Australia's Century of Surf (2013) page 264. Get over yourself Mr Serious.... and by the way the 'rudimentary' style was also exhibited by Duke and co. The quality of the waves was also 'poor' in both cases. You are a pompous ass and youtube or a viewer flagged your comment as spam... lol! Get back to me when ...