Swellnet For Lifeline Classic And Board Sale 2024

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Craig Brokensha (Craig)
Swellnet Dispatch

It's that time of the year again when we hold our annual Secondhand Board Yard Sale Fundraiser, with funds going to Lifeline Northern Beaches.

The Yard Sale is set for this Sunday at Freshwater Beach, just on the grass out front of The Pocket Cafe. 

While also raising money for an important community resource, the Yard Sale also contributes to Swellnet's team score for the surfing event which will be run on the 17th of Novemeber this year.

The Yard Sale works like this:

  • For sellers, rock up any time from 8:30am with your near new or used (not trashed!) board.
  • We now have an online, pre-register page for your boards here.
  • Otherwise, on the day we'll have two seperate tables, one for board registration and the other for sales.
  • On arrival go to the registration desk to get your board stickered with your asking price.
  • Leave the board with us and hang around or come back before 12pm to see if it sold to claim your cash.
  • When you find a bargain, take that board up to the sales table and we'll grab your cash and note that the board has been sold to the seller.
  • For buyers, there are always great bargains with all types of boards and shapes.
  • For boards under $200, $20 will be donated to Lifeline, and for boards over $200, 10% of the price will go to Lifeline.
  • Marty from Butterbox Cafe will be there, supporting us again.
  • Also, CASH is preferred and makes it easier to pay the sellers through the day, though we will have EFTPOS facilities available.

So pencil in this Sunday, the 8th of September and grab a bargain for yourself or your loved one.

Click here to donate if you can't make the day.

Below are a handful of images from last year's event, taken by Tony Palmer.

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Solitude Tuesday, 3 Sep 2024 at 4:15pm

Real good Craig. Love you guys do this. Hope you have a cracking day.

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Elliedog Tuesday, 3 Sep 2024 at 7:12pm

Great effort guys. Hope you raise some

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basesix Wednesday, 4 Sep 2024 at 12:55pm

man, that looks fun!

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Lanky Dean Thursday, 5 Sep 2024 at 5:43am

How's old mate with the twinny....
Looks like he's deep in thought going back in time.... love it ! How's the groms one kid has two boards classic.

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Max Wax Thursday, 5 Sep 2024 at 2:54pm

Lots of froth down there!

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thermalben Thursday, 5 Sep 2024 at 3:11pm

TBB.. thank you for your very generous donation (as you always do!). Received by post this afternoon.

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Craig Thursday, 5 Sep 2024 at 3:12pm

Yeah thanks so much TBB!

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truebluebasher Thursday, 5 Sep 2024 at 8:10pm

swellnet are a frontline emergency Mental Health Lifeline
Saved tbb many times over & again right here & now.
Never felt so disabled & far removed from society & the surf as right here & now.
Thanks for including & allowing us disabled mental outpatients to step up when & where we can.

Thanks to hardworking crew for supporting tbb's health recovery...truly so blessed in Australia.
Crew would be happy to know tbb don't waste your assist & share any modest surplus with frontline.
tbb insists the donation is more so from the crew that supports us ill folk to come good as now!
Never felt better knowing that tbb can enable the crew's wishes to assist suffering brothers & sisters.
Crew wanna salute Ben & Craig + Staff for acknowledgment, kindness & goodwill towards sufferers.

Be cool if ya could donate, swap or simply share the stoke by backing swellnet frontline health unit!
Craig is our super Hero...No doubt about it...please lend swellnet a hand where ya can!
swellnet not only saves lives...those lives saved go on to save others by these humble means or other!

tbb is surfin' back to good health on a healthy sized swellnet spirited Party Wave...get on board!
Don't need to reach the line up if crew keep it real..thanks for sharing the Goodvibes!

Bonus Ultra Rare Track for Surf Weather God Craig...this one blows in with The Surfrider Era...
Do yerselves a favour & read the accompanying ultra rare YouTube Comments
Rare one of a kind Oct 1961 Melbourne Storm that blew the Manly Sea Eagles outta their Line Up
63 years of Blowin Spirit to stoke the swellnet classic Manly crew...priceless top secret super powers! Yew!

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basesix Sunday, 8 Sep 2024 at 9:04am

super piece of Aussie surfrabillia, @tbb! cheers for that. you've given us a Lee-Dalls 45 listening experience worth $500 according to ebay : 0
anyone at the yard sale, that can post a few pics, would be fun for us absentees to get a bit of a lookyloo !

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Craig Wednesday, 13 Nov 2024 at 5:09pm

I fly back from Japan straight into the classic this Sunday. We're still looking for $1,400 to reach the 5k target and to get us some bonus points so any last minute donations are more than welcome.

https://fundraise.lifelinenb.org.au/fundraisers/swellnet

Cheers!

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zenagain Thursday, 14 Nov 2024 at 2:36pm

You're a little closer to your target. Hope all goes well for this very worthy cause.

Nice one TBB.

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Craig Saturday, 16 Nov 2024 at 10:24pm

Thanks so much for the extra donations crew. We're now over 6k and there was a very generous donation by anonymous at just over 1k. Very humbled.

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thermalben Sunday, 17 Nov 2024 at 6:17am

Good luck to y'all today! Wish I could be there but couldn't get a leave pass.

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Kham Sunday, 17 Nov 2024 at 7:35am

Can someone who doesn’t have kids and weekend sport please organise this on the Gold Coast.

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basesix Monday, 18 Nov 2024 at 6:30am

How'd you go yesterday Craig/Jake/Tom?

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Craig Monday, 18 Nov 2024 at 7:05am

Unfortunately knocked out first round.

I came straight off three heats at Manly Malibu Club. Tommy and Jake ripped but got best waves as their first and bombed the double points power waves unfortunately.

Ended up rasing 6.5k though! Thanks to everyone who contributed. The event raised over 100k total which is great.

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basesix Monday, 18 Nov 2024 at 7:16am

yeh, total success @craig, epic fundraise, well done! what were the waves like generally?