​Back in 1984, a few surfers in the Nambucca Valley area who rode a variety of weird surf craft mostly in excess of eight foot in length, convinced the local boardriders club to include a “Malibu” division in their forthcoming Easter Surfing Classic.

“Yeah  sure....  as long as you can find 6 starters” was the reply.
There were in excess of 20 starters, but unfortunately the boardriders fell in a heap and said “it’s off, due to lack of interest”.

There was only a couple of the local mal crew who had been in a contest before, let alone run one, but they did with style!

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Day one – Good Friday … all the competitors are gathered in the headland car park overlooking Nambucca Main Beach a group of mal riders from Port Macquarie to Arrawarra shaking hands and eyeing off each others equipment. 

Sunday we had good north Valla walls to play in, ran the event in one day and lobbed at the Nambucca League and Sports Club for the presentation, surf movies and BBQ. 

Amongst high spirits, the group around the bar decided to form a mal club. Due to the varying locals of the crew, a name would be tough, some names were thrown about: Plank Riders, Mid Coast Mals, plus a host of other poor alternatives! One common denominator was Heads (Nambucca Heads, Scotts Head, Crescent Head), the other: Logs, a common name given to old mals; then the turtle got involved and it was to be… LOGGER HEADS M.C. was founded and the name adopted.

Membership in the 80’s hovered between 20 –30, our numbers would grow, only to spawn new clubs like Mal Der Mer Crescent Head and Woolgoolga -which in turn gave LoggerHeads the alias of “Mother Club”.
LoggerHead's members were also out assisting the formation of other surfing bodies – the Nambucca Valley Boardriders, Mid North Coast Boardriders, Old Wave Malibu Assoc. and the Nambucca Surf Life Savers Club.

The LoggerHead’s Malibu Classic has now been staged 32 times by this small dedicated and fun loving group of surfers and their families.

The first LoggerHead's Malibu Classic was held in 1985 over two days, with TWO divisions - Old Mal and Over 8ft Open. The Ladies and juniors surfed with the men, and an award for highest placed over 35yrs in both divisions was given. This has grown to 12 divisions and novelty events run over three days.
Sponsorship was hard to find in a small country town, so a precedent was made in the early 90’s to drop prizes from the finalists awards (trophies only) enabling us to spread the booty so all competitors went home with a prize! Would this effect the entry numbers and calibre of surfers? was the question ….. no way …. The best riders on the east coast still attend and we are turning people away !! 

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