Weekend Argus Saturday

Family heirloom finds its way home

VINTAGE surfing

SURFING the web has helped a Durban family come across an heirloom that they might not have found without logging into Facebook.

The family of surfer Colin Doveton has been collecting the many surfboards he shaped by hand since the 1980s. The surfer with an engineering background pioneered the shaping of channels on surfboards to make them more aerodynamic, according to his daughter

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