Known by some as the Flying Dutchman, Dick Van Straalen has been hand crafting innovative surfboards in Australia since the 1950′s, seen every every development in surfboard production since the plywood planks to the ever so current carbon fibre surfboards created by Dick Van Straalen himself. Read interview with Dick Van Straalen here at The Blackmail.

See Dick Van Straalen’s photo diary below..

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