Single Fin Classic at Burleigh This Weekend

Grommies with boards twice their age, at the Single Fin Classic!
It’s the first contest of the year, and one of the highlights in the Gold Coasts surfing calendar. The Burleigh Boardriders Single Fin Classic.

The rules are simple. Boards must have one fin, and they must be shaped before 1985. That goes for the grommies too, which provides an interesting juxtaposition when they’re holding a board twice their age under their arms! Let alone when they try and punt that board off the lip.

A fun competition; there’s no prize money, just a surfboard for the winner and bragging rights in the lineup for the rest of the year. Of course the prize surfboard is too a single fin, so the winner not only gets the metaphorical crown, but a piece of surfing history to hang on the wall. Or surf, their choice.

To stay in a surfable condition, all of these boards must have a back-story. Ask any surfer what happens to their board over the span of a year, and they’ll tell you about dings, UV damage, creases, cracks, shutting it in the car boot and losing it off the roof of the car. So for a board to withstand over 20 years of being a surfboard, there’s got to be a backstory. Usually, it involves being left in a garage, but sometimes there lies a tale of love, care and appreciation of a good board.

Hear the stories for yourself, watch the surfing and step back over 20 years in surfing history this weekend in Burleigh Heads, at the Burleigh Boardriders Single Fin Classic.