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Well-traveled Australian surfer and boardmaker from Queensland's Gold Coast; winner of the 1973 Australian National Titles. Harvey was born (1948) in Sydney, and began riding waves at age 10, not long after his family moved to Avalon Beach.

A smooth, stylish goofyfooter, fond of long back-arching trim lines, Harvey finished 3rd in the 1969 Australian Titles, held at Margaret River, behind winner Nat Young and runner-up Peter Drouyn. The following year Harvey moved to the Gold Coast to open a Shane Surfboards factory-showroom outlet.

In the 1973 Aussie Titles, also held at Margaret River—in big, windy, testing conditions—Harvey ran the field and won the event, earning himself an invitation to that year's Pipeline Masters and Duke Kahanamoku Classic. That same year, the 24-year-old Harvey visited Bali, where he likely became the first to ride the explosive but perfect left-breaking tubes of Padang Padang. (Australian Tony Eltherington has also been cited as the original Padang surfer.) "A barrel came into view that was so insane I staggered," Harvey later wrote in 

 magazine, recalling his first view of the dangerously shallow Padang. He rode three waves, made them all, and was relieved to call it quits. "I was scared. I didn't know where the take-off area was, didn't know if the reef would suck dry, didn't know if it was even makable . . ."

Harvey also won the debut Ma and Pa Bendall Surf Classic in 1974, defeating Wayne Bartholomew, Terry Fitzgerald, Gerry Lopez and Simon Anderson, among others.

Havey was one of the best-travelled Aussie surfers of the decade, and his Harvey Surfboards later became one of the most popular Gold Coast labels. He appeared in a small number of surf movies, including 

For 15 years, starting in 1988, Harvey worked as an accessory designer for Billabong Australia.

Harvey, Richard

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