In 1969 he established his brand, McTavish, and in 1972 he launched the world’s first production shortboard, the Bluebird. Having won the Queensland Open surf title in 1965, in 1966–67, inspired by the example of Californian kneeboard rider George Greenough, he began to develop a shorter surfboard that would open up new possibilities in the water, consigning ‘noseriding’ to history as the surfer was enabled to ride the wave, not the board. Step into the world of Wayne Lynch by checking out his epic biopic Uncharted Waters.īob McTavish shortboard pioneer, began surfing as a boy in Queensland and worked for surfboard manufacturers from 1961. He was rated the third-best surfer of all time by Surfing magazine in 2004, and seventeenth-best of all time by Surfer magazine in 2009.
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Lynch won the Sydney Surfabout contest, then the world’s richest professional event, in 1975, and was runner-up in 1978 yet he is remembered as a soulful surfer and amazing shaper rather than an aggressive competitor.
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In 1969 he appeared in Paul Witzig’s movie Evolution and in 1971, his classic Sea of Joy. From the age of ten, he won six consecutive Victorian junior titles, and the Australian junior title four years running between 19. “There’s definitely a nostalgic element to it, but there’s something else there too.”Īrcadia (Wayne Lynch and Bob McTavish), 1969 (reprinted 2011) Through his lens, he has told the story of Australian surfing history, a wave of long-haired boys, homemade surfboards, shunning, flared Levi ‘s jeans, crotchet bikini-clad girls and endless summer days depicting scenes of a pre-tourist, bohemian Byron Bay and surfing contests held at the sacred Bells Beach in Victoria. His surf photographs were included in the Magicians of the Sea exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography in 2005, and in 50 Years of Australian Beach Culture at the Dickerson Gallery in 2010. Over the decades, John has documented some of surfing’s biggest turning points, has taken us into the hearts and lives of some of the sport’s most unique and significant personalities. He is now a designer for the art publishing house Chapter and Verse.
From 1967 to 1969 he was editor of Surf International.
John Witzig, photographer, writer and designer, contributed his first piece to Surfing World in 1963.
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