Broken Head board made on the Beach

About 80 to 81( these were hazy pot fueled days) when I went back to Byron Bay , I was living in a tent with ocean views at Broken Head caravan Park, and was working for both Roy at Bare Nature and Warren Cornish. At the park there were a few long term renters and one of them( I cant remember his name so I'll use Bill) ,who was living close to where I was, asked me if I was interested in making a Knee board for him, I jumped at it as I was in need of money, and then he asked me to make it in front of where we were living,which is, more or less nearly on the beach. He had a 72 Landrover, so we made some stands and started working on the shape using the Landrover as a wind break. He left it all up to me with the shape and glassing ,so it ended up being a concave bottom with a bat tail at 5foot 6 by 22 inch wide and 3 inch thick, now at the time I was riding a 5 foot 4 kneeboard standing up when it suited the board ( which usually was on the small side)and I was pretty keen to also try this out too, and it became nearly like I was making my own. The shaping outdoors was ok but the drama came with the glassing ....I started glassing early in the morning , so as to avoid the wind , but by the time I was pouring the resin on( it was a yellow tint) the wind came up and I had 4 other guys hanging on to the glass to stop the glass flappin all over the place.... it was the same for the top,the dam wind just kept coming up early, and the beautiful half ripple half perfect fillercoat really put the icing on the cake, I nicknamed this the Windfinish.... , so the wind sand and sun ,made for an outside surfboard making experience that I have never repeated. I remember one of the guys from Warren Cornish's passing by when going for a surf when in the middle of glassing, and within a short time my expertise at outside boardmaking had become legendary Ha!! I handsanded the filler and gave it a wet and dry finish, so from start to finish not a machine touched her she was truly a HANDJOB. I made the fin at Roys and this was the only part of the board a machine was used, and then the the crunch time...surfing it! Bill took it out in a pretty fair kind of surf for Broken , came in said he loved it , couldn't believe the speed and how good it was on the turns . I took it out for a standup and was impressed , for a widetail single fin it really did hang in the turns really well but it was the fact the whole dam thing was more or less made on the beach in 3 days with bits of sand an whatever else was blowin in the wind, she was a true Broken Head board made on the beach with passion....