Our 98th board winner Andrew gets delivery of his Chelman Volan Double Ender 9’1”

Legrope ban and $1,100 fines for Byron Bay?

As reported by the ABC, April 24: A Byron Shire councillor wants to introduce a regulation that would see surfers fined ...

Sand Mining – a promo newsreel - sheesh

Australia’s beaches got heavily mined for minerals throughout the 1960s and ’70s across the length of our long East Coast. ...

THE NEW PLB - ISSUE 114 - Mick the Mighty Proofreader brings the inside info on what's in it

Mighty Mick the Hyphen brings us his run-down on what lies between the covers of the newie: >> FEATURES TALKING YI-WO In The Seedling, Sprout and The ...

What’s next? Started by a self-taught blacksmith - Patagonia celebrates 50 years of BUSINESS UNUSUAL

VENTURA, Calif. — Patagonia turns 50 this year and the outdoor apparel company that was started by a self-taught blacksmith is focused ...

OUR 99th BOARD – WIN A CARABINE SHAKEY MODERN LOG

Shane Hornby was a hot ’Gong local who’d grown up hanging around Mick Carabine’s factory and was so gone on ...

Jock Sutherland & Pearl Jam – “Low Light”

Waves roll by. Jock Sutherland together with "Low Light".  This was sent to us by John Wade, a great mate of Jock’s (and ...

FULL FILM NOW FREE ON LINE – “THE PHYSICS OF NOSERIDING”

Off the back of popular screenings along Australia’s East Coast and across the United States, new Patagonia film ‘The Physics ...

“All Quiet on the Surfie-Rocker Front” – cinema newsreel from 1963

Dug from deep in the bowels of the dark web by PLB’s archive detective Ian Lording via the government’s own ...

History of Gold Coast Beaches

There’s a lot of sand bagging and pumping and groyne building going on in this 18-minute film, produced by Griffith University. “This ...

Vanimo Surf Lodge PNG – fully revamped, and the waves have been firing

From manager Dave: Well coming back into an operational state after Covid lockdowns proved to be an onerous task in more ...

LISTEN: "Painting in reverse" with velvet painter Baron von Miller

When Baron von Miller decided to paint on black velvet, he had big shoes to fill. His father Percy Miller ...

Watch the 16-minute film “Victorian Pioneer Manufacturers - Klemm Bell & Pat Morgan”. Directed by Glen Hunwick, narrated by Bob Smith, and great surfing on vintage boards

Following the previous short films celebrating significant surfboard manufacturing pioneers of the '60s and '70s, (George Rice ‘Then and Now’ and ...

Mount Longboards: Original surf apparel from New Zealand – online & bricks & mortar store – CHECK OUT THE VID

“Massive for us this summer. We recently shot a cool video featuring some surfing and our prints and is being ...

THE NEW PLB - ISSUE 113 - Mick the Mighty Proofreader brings the inside info on what's in it

Mighty Mick the Hyphen brings us his run-down on what lies between the covers of the newie: >> FEATURES BOBBY BROWN & ...

OUR 98th BOARD - WIN A CHELMAN SURFBOARDS VOLAN 9’1” DOUBLE ENDER

A lifetime surfer raised in his parent’s original surf shop and shaping bay in Port Macquarie, Ryan Chelman’s been building all sorts of ...

BILL & HIS GIRLS WIN THE CARABINE

When we phoned Bill Davidson to tell him he’d just won the Carabine Shakey in our 97th subscriber board giveaway he ...