Old Surfers never die, they just ride older boards!
Welcome to the Tweed Coast Old Malibu
Club Incorporated's- Home-on-the-range. A collection of trivial goss, the
odd picher and news from the tribe of Old Malibu devotees that enjoy the
beautiful waves of far-northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.
Gold Coast. Australia.
Indirectly this page is an outlet for
the esoteric ramblings dredged up from the swamp that passes for the brain
of Steve Donohue. © Coolibah Creative P/L retains all intellectual
property in perpitooity fer ever an evah, amen.
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POST: 88 Mountainview Avenue. Burleigh
Waters Q 4220 Australia
This Update Updated - 26/4/98
NEXT CLUB RALLY
May 30 - Wintersun
1998 QUEENSLAND OLD MAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
(29TH, 7PM HEAT DRAW DOLPHINS HOTEL TWEED
'EADS)
Some spots still available! Don't miss
this one.
Call Camel 02 6674 3349 $25 comp fee.
THE LAST ONE
- No report for March yet.
9/11/97 - Held at Terrace Street, Kingscliff, on the shores
of Wommin Bay.
Surf 2 to 3 foot - not too good but not too bad either!
15 attendees and included a special appearance from "The Stickman"
| Round 1 Heats |
1st Place |
2nd |
Turd |
Fourth |
| 1 |
Mudguts |
Jacko |
Matty |
Cocky |
| 2 |
Spiderlegs |
Storky |
Press |
Corey |
| 3 |
Camel |
Daffy |
Cainey |
|
| 4 |
The Dok |
Croaky |
Wade |
Zac |
| Round 2 Heats |
|
|
|
|
| 1 |
The Dok |
Spider |
Corey |
Matt |
| 2 |
Camel |
Allan C |
Cocky |
Vade |
| 3 |
Stickman |
Daffus |
Batboy |
Cainy |
| 4 |
Stick |
Muddy |
Storky |
Press |
CLUB PARTICULARS
Our club is composed of a band of surfing enthusiasts
that persists in riding particularly prehistoric slabs of petrochemical
slag - more commonly known as Old Malibus (mal - e - booze).
The club was founded in 1991 by a group of surf derelicts
who used to run into and over each other whilst careering shorewards on
their old dungers. Deciding, when they got out of hospital, that there
was a need for a club to organise and promote this sort of mayhem regularly
they set out to preserve the 'art' of Old Malibu surfboard riding by forming
the Tweed Coast Old Malibu Club.
An 'old mal' is any surfcraft over nine foots in longth,
having attained 30 years of abuseage. The use of mechanical appliances
is not permitted and the wearing of restraints is a subject for continuous
dissent. Riders can be any silly idiot keen enough to lug an old log out
to sea, turn it around and ride it back in again.
At a special meeting on July 10, 1997 a management
committee of the club passed a special management committee resolution
to incorporate the club under the Queensland Associations Incorporation
Act 1981.
At that meeting it was agreed that the
'object' or constitution of the club was :
"To preserve the art of Old Malibu
surfboard riding"
It was also agreed that there would be no rules, apart
from those in the 'Model Club Rules' set down by the Consumer Affairs Office.
Reason being that there can be no rules as to the way
to have fun and also that if there are no rules, then no-one can get shirty
about someone breakin' the rules. However, it was decided that there should
be a gentlemans' (an' womans) agreement that the equipment used should
be genuine, pre 1968 manufactured surfboards measuring over nine foot (
two and a bit metres) long and weighin' in the region of 'arf-a ton.
Because there being no rules some members have gotten
special dispensation from their publicans to ride mals that are just a
little bit short (8'11 15/16ths"). Doesn't matter Cocky! As long as
you reckon that it's that old!
RALLYS
Rallys are held six times a year on the second Sunday
of the even numbered months. That's about as organised as we get. The roll
call/heat draw is taken at 7am ('roach (NSW) time) behind the Kingscliff
Bowlo (Bowls Club for the uninitiated) at Kingscliff Beach (a pichuresk
little seaside villiage about 10 minutes drive south of Coolangatta Airport).
A 'comp fee' of $2 is collected so someone can nick around to the butchers
fer some snags ter chuck on the barby after the 'competition's all done
and finish. Heats are surfed in the best waves we can find in the area
(which is renowned for almost always having waves of some description.
Not that description Cocky!) All's welcome.
MEMBERSHIP
The club subscription is $25 due on the August rally
annually. It was formerly acceptable to lob along with a slab of cold stubbies
(beer) but due to the legal requirements, bookkeeping problems and devaluation
of the aforementioned slabs we can no longer accept slabs. For this trifling
outlay members recieve an item of limited edition clothing, usually a club
t-shirt but this year Camel has organised embroidered caps. Paid up members
also recieve a copy of our newsletter detailling the exploits of the S.O.S.B's
and various other items of innerest to Old Malibu fanatics.
Plus advance warning
of CONNESTS!
WINNERSUN 97 RESULTS
QLD. OLD OLD POO BA
'CRIBBY'
Ross Cribb from Evans' 'ed.
QLD. OLD Junior Champeen
'WOODSY'
Noel Woods outa Alex.
1997 Stinky sox award for the biggest dummy
spit - S. Donohue
WHATITSALLABOUT?
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