Peter Harris

Peter Harris is an Australian surfer and surfboard shaper from Burleigh Heads in Queensland, born in 1958. He learned the craft of shaping boards in the 1970s under Michael Peterson and Dick Van Straalen, and combined that workshop skill with competitive surfing. His best known result came in 1980, when he won the Stubbies contest at Burleigh Heads. That victory made him the first rookie to win a major international surfing event, which is the achievement for which he is remembered in surf history. The English Wikipedia article on him is short, so this entry records only what that article states: his birth year, his home town, his shaping apprenticeship and the 1980 win, and it makes no claim about later seasons or other titles.