<p>Bob may have been Australia's first full-time career 'beach bum', and he changed surfing forever when he invented the shortboard in the late 1960s.</p>

Bob may have been Australia's first full-time career 'beach bum', and he changed surfing forever when he invented the shortboard in the late 1960s.

Bob McTavish and his 60s surfing revolution

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