 Bob
McTavish was born in
Australia, and took to the sea
completely by the age of 18,
exploring the endless miles of
good surf along the coastlines
of New South Wales and
Queensland. McTavish's
natural tool skills and
curiosity led him into board
design. In 1965, he hooked up
with Nat Young and George
Greenough on a trip to Noosa.
This resulted in Young's
extraordinary thin-railed,
high-aspect-finned board
dubbed "Magic Sam."
Nat Young rode that board at
the 1966 World Contest in an
era-bending clash between
longboards and shortboards.
Young won, on a McTavish
design. Today,
McTavish’s stature as a
shaper/innovator is
unsurpassed—in fact,
Australian Surfing Life dubbed
him the “Most
Influential Shaper of All
Time.”
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