Joe Roddy, Dundalk, Ireland. Joe was surfing as early as 1949. The son of an Irish lighthouse keeper, he built his own four-metre paddle-board made mostly from discarded tea chests and lashings of sturdy lighthouse paint. Joe got the design from a woodworker’s manual but, with all the materials required to build such a craft in short supply after World War II, was forced to improvise. (For more info see history section) Some of the Silver Surfers This is by no means a complete list of the surfers who started it all off here in Ireland but it’s a selection of the characters around at the time…
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