Melville waters lm guessing lm sure my dad is somewhere in those pics late 70s or early eighties

ozpricey said..
The bottom pic looks like sailors are at Peli Point with SOPYC in the background.

Yep pics def taken from peli point....
lots of rip curl sails,bombora sails,chest harnesses and windrush rags as well..
i would suggest the top pic is a couple if years younger than the bottom one as well?

I'm fairly certain that the guy in the top photo on the right is David Hutchinson (or similar surname). Used to be part of the regular Pelican Point crowd who I used to hang out with. He went on to become a commercial pilot I think.

I'm possibly in the lower photograph. I did have one of the dark blue and pink vertically stripped Bombora sails (with red logo). There are two of them in the photo (far left, and centre having just crashed). I must be the one on the far left sailing well ;-)
The board I had at the time was a Bombora New Toy.

GazMan said..
OMG, what ugly sails they were back then! Don't modern sails look soooooo much better on the water?

David Hutchison perhaps? think my old man was mates with him..

Unfortunately many of the modern sails are predominantly clear and invisible fro the beach, which has possibly contributed to the lack of interest from onlookers.

Thankfully thats changing again now and until the other brands catch up with their colourways, red is the dominant colour out there now...used to be the Mirror dinghy fleet out of Royal Perth was the sea of red back then!

Ha! It's all relative...I remember drooling over all that new gear and scrimping and saving to get it!

What's so great about those days?

Windsurfers everywhere and not a kite to be seen