Grant Newby sent us this piece of history, the origins of the image are unknown except that it was taken on Newdicks beach, Maketu New Zealand in 1966 with Chris Wells on the roof. Grant shapes traditional long boards and wooden surfboards on the Gold Coast of Australia you can check his work here, as well as his other retro craft blogs here and here.


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