After a 350-kilometre journey filled with rips, blisters, seasickness and sharks, a group of men has achieved a world-record feat of crossing Bass Strait in a surfboat. Co-sweep Rob Pollock said the ...
LITTLE Emily, just five weeks old, is the unofficial member of a top Sydney surfboat crew. Find out why they will be leaning on her for support at the upcoming Australian Surf Life Saving ...
Glenwood residents, Kendra Robinson and Ciarda Sharp form part of the Durban Marine Surf Lifesaving Club Ladies’ Surfboat Crew and are in training for an upcoming competition set to take place at ...
Teams of rowers have ventured into chilly waters off the Gallipoli peninsula for a surfboat race commemorating the centenary of Anzac. The two-day event started at Eceabat, the town closest to the ...
— The oldest picture in Tom Van Duyne’s shop shows his grandfather, Sam, in a sawdust covered work apron. He is posing at the bow of a boat being built keel-side down; the skeletal hull of steam-bent ...
A team of surfboat rowers has broken a world record on their way to making history as the first all-female crew to cross the notorious Bass Strait. The eight women left Port Welshpool in southern ...
MARINE Mongrels Ladies’ Surfboat crew ended their Lifesaving World Championships (LWC) experience in Australia on a positive note. After not making it through to the final rounds of the World ...
And far fewer would know that the first purpose-built surfboat in Australia – and possibly the world – was launched at Manly in 1907 and that the men at the oars were not lifesavers but fishermen. The ...
The George Bass surfboat marathon hosted on the New South Wales south coast is not for the faint-hearted. The seven-leg, ...