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The Haleiwa section from "High On a Cool Wave"

29 November 22


From Bob Evan's fifth film. It documents Nat Young, Bob McTavish & George Greenough testing their new board designs. It also features emerging stars Peter Drouyn, Wayne Lynch, Russell Hughes, Keith Paull, David "Baddy" Treloar & Ted Spencer.

Fully  restored DVD copies of the full film are available in the PLB Shop HERE

THIS CLIP: This is original unrestored footage from Australia’s National Film & Sound Archive, dated January 1968. 

Surfers include Drouyn, Doyle, Cabell, Young ("on a radical vee-bottom"), Apia, & Grigg.

FROM THE CURATOR’S NOTES:

"In one of the first big swells on the north shore of Hawaii in January 1968, the cream of the world’s surfers gather to size each other up at Haleiwa.

"The middle of the film is all set in Hawaii, most of it following a hot new Australian surfer, Peter Drouyn, as he makes his Hawaiian debut. Drouyn, born in 1949, had won the Queensland championship at 15, in 1965.

"That same year he won the NSW junior championship as well, even after he was badly assaulted by some surfers at Manly, the night before the contest. This footage is from late 1967-early 1968, shortly after his 18th birthday. In 1970, he was ranked number one surfer in the world.”

 READ MORE & WATCH THE VID - the teaser of the Hawaiian section 

Dug up by PLB’s honorary archive detective Ian Lording

NARRATOR: RENNIE ELLIS

PRODUCER & WRITER: BOB EVANS



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