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A Mammoth Task

Our Club, Our Home

Long Reef Patrol Season 1952/53

In the Beginning…

Long Reef Surf Life Saving Club Long Reef SLSC was founded in 1950 with 29 members and without a clubhouse. Part of a bus shelter on Pittwater Road was leased from the then Dept of Road Transport and Tramways to act as a gear shed.

Current membership is over 750 ranging from nippers to retired founding members. As a number of founding members attended or had attended the Shore School in North Sydney the school colours navy blue and white were adopted as the club colours. Long Reef SLSC can proudly boast No Lives Lost during patrol hours.

About Long Reef Beach Long Reef beach can be found on Sydneys Northern beaches. It is the northern half of the 1.8 km stretch of beach running from the base of Long Reef headland south to Dee Why Point. The beach is bracketed by an Aquatic Reserve golf course and a lagoon and wild life refuge. The beach faces the south east and picks up any east to south east swell. This makes it one of Sydneys higher energy beaches. The waves average 1.6 m being highest in the south and centre decreasing north of the Long Reef surf club owing to some protection from the outer reefs (bomboras). 

Long Reef is a relatively popular summer beach offering some protection from the summer nor Easters. In winter it is exposed and often blown out but very popular with windsurfers and kite surfers.

Australian Honours

John Freedman OAM 1987

Ross Matthews OAM 11th June, 2007

David MacIntosh AM 13th June, 2011

LRSLSC Australian Honour recipients 

Long Reef SLSC Presidents

1st President Roger Court 1950-1955

2nd President Neil Jones 1955-1957

3rd President Len Connolly 1957-1961 & 1967-1969

4th President Rob Urquhart 1961-1967

5th President Giff Brown 1969-1972

6th James Hutchings 1972-1977

7th President Ross Matthews 1977-1981, 1982-1985 & 1988-1989

8th President Peter Kinsey 1981-1982

9th President George Metcalf 1985-1986

10th President Roger Pearce 1986-1988

11th President Bruce Gaal 1989-1997

12th President Rob Pearson 1997-2001, 2003-2007

13th President Ian Waterhouse 2001-2003

14th President Doug Lucas 2007-2015

15th President Peter Kinsey 2015-2024

Life Members

 1960 Rob Urquhart *

1966 Warwick Connolly *

1971 Ross Tompson

1973 Alexander (Giff) Brown *

1973 Jim (James) Hutchings

1982 Ross Matthews *

1985 George Metcalfe

1991 Ian Waterhouse

1995 Malcolm MacCormick

1997 Peter Kinsey

2002 Bruce Gaal

2004 Peter Selosse

2005 David MacIntosh

2007 Jim Selosse

2007 Lex Brown

2015 Kristie Debney

2016 Rob Pearson

2018 Margaret Pearson

2022 Chris Diggins

*Deceased

Long Reef SLSC Distinguished Service Members

2006 Lex Brown

2006 Robert Galmes

2006 Geoff Hayman

2006 Leigh Johnson

2006 Robert Murray *

2006 Kevin Palmisano

2006 James Selosse

2006 David Sams

2006 Mary-Ann Selosse

2007 Nigel Scozzi

2008 Kristie Thomas

2008 Douglas Lucas

2010 Stephen Cox

2012 Seamus Redmond

* Deceased.

Sydney Northern Beaches Branch Life and Distinguished Service Membership

 

1993 Ross Matthews Life Member

2008 David Macintosh Distinguished Service Member

2008 Peter Selosse Distinguished Service Member

2010 Doug Lucas Distinguished Service Member

 

Surf Life Saving NSW Life Membership

2007 Ross Matthews

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