Listen " CHAD WHATLEY"
Episode Synopsis
CHAD WHATLEY... Chad Whatley represents a new breed of young surf entrepreneurs. There was a day when surf shops only sold surfboards that were constructed on the premises. You'd walked in to be greeted with the air thick with resin fumes. Maybe a couple of board shorts and t/shirts on a rack to the side. These days you walk into a surf shop and be overwhelmed with the racks and racks of clothes brandishing all sorts of trending labels. With the surfboards stacked up at the back or along the side. Chad's surfboard business is different. He's a surfboard broker. His premises is full of nothing but rows and rows of surfboards - both new, second-hand and all shapes and models. If you want to sell your board, he'll move it for you - if you want to buy a board, he'll sell you one.That's it. No clothes, no resin fumes - just boards, boards and more boards. Probably it's his dealing with such a wide variety of surfboards that gives Chad such a broad outlook on surfing. He's surf through and through having traveled far and wide with some good stories. One surprise in the interview was his surf idol, as Chad is from a much younger generation. If you are in Port Macquarie and passing through check him out. He's Surfboardbroker Australia on Insta, F/book and the web.
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