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Rapanui & The Isle of Wight Surf Club’s oldest members’ homemade surf equipment to feature on BBC Countryfile

Rapanui on Country File

This Sunday (the 12th of Feb) the BBC are broadcasting an episode from the Isle of Wight, featuring a story on one of the original members of the Isle of Wight Surf Club & his homemade boards and suits.

It was on Paul Blackley’s Wight Surf History Site that the story of Archie Trickett and his home made surf equipment that the BBC found their story. Archie was a pretty smart chap by all accounts and made himself a surfboard and wetsuit by hand - you couldn’t buy them back then. With his wife, Betty, they built a wooden house and spent weekends surfing at Compton, driving their by motorbike with the surfboard on the sidecar.

The best part is that Archie never threw his old stuff away, and Betty was enthusiastic to share his story with others. So the Isle of Wight Surfclub & Rapanui helped put together a day for Countryfile: Ellie Harrison (presenter) gives surfing a go at our most popular West-coast beach, Compton and the Island's best surfers took Archie's old board out in the waves again. It was really quite a special day to not just have some living history there, but to try it out first hand and bring it back to life.

The Episode is on this Sunday at 7PM, BBC 1 - definitely worth a watch.

See below for more images of Archie’s homemade Surfboard and Wetsuit.

Read more and comment: http://www.rapanuiclothing.com/blog/countryfile-isle-of-wight-rapanui.html

 


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