Bamboo Surfboards
Make a Splash Written by
Miranda Cook
Passionate surfer and Old Boy Richard Matthews ’68 has a love of the ocean that goes beyond riding waves. The backyard craftsman is synonymous in the global surf industry due to his quest to create a more sustainable surfboard. His goal is to protect 24
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the workers who make them, while keeping the planet clean. Affectionately known in the surf industry as “Bamboo Man Dipo”, he began shaping boards in the 60s and 70s underneath his mother’s house on the Gold Coast, alongside Gordan Merchant, who later founded surf
