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Energetic and perpetually upbeat surfer from Queensland's Gold Coast; a semifinalist in the 1972 World Surfing Championships; 1988 world amateur longboard champion; longtime surfing media figure; and chairman of the Gold Coast World Surfing Reserve advocacy group.

McKinnon was born (1953) in Melbourne, Victoria, to a bookstore-manager father and milkbar-owning mother; at age seven he moved with his family to the Gold Coast, and two years later he began surfing at Mermaid Beach, just north of Burleigh Heads. In 1967, five years after he began surfing, McKinnon won the Queensland State under-14s title. It was around this time that he met and befriended Michael Peterson, Wayne Bartholomew, and Peter Townend, and together the four traveled with the Australian national team to the 1972 World Surfing Championships, where McKinnon placed 6th and Townend finished runner-up. Two years prior, at Cronulla, the 16-year-old McKinnon notched his biggest contest result, beating a talent-loaded field that included Nat Young, Midget Farrelly and Terry Fitzgerald, to win the 1970 Bobby Brown Memorial contest.

A slender goofyfooter (5' 7", 140 lbs), McKinnon had an active but smooth style, was comfortable in big waves, and developed into a first-rate switchfooter. On a 1977 visit to Jeffreys Bay, in South Africa, McKinnon rode supersonic triple-overhead walls in a regularfoot stance.

Unlike Peterson, Townend and Bartholomew, all of whom were leading figures during the early years of organized professional surfing, McKinnon's results tapered off in the mid-1970s. A decade later, however, he returned as a second-wave longboarder, winning an Australian national title in 1987, and a world title in 1988.

In 1981, McKinnon got a job doing a weekly surf column for the 

 newspaper in Lismore, just west of Lennox Head; he has been a consistent and always-sunny media presence ever since, by way of newspaper and magazine writing, on-site surf contest announcing, and regular TV and radio appearances, often introduced as "Andy Mac," his lifelong nickname.

As a surfing advocate, McKinnon helped spearhead the effort to create the Gold Coast World Surfing Reserve, a 16-km stretch of wave-rich coastline extending from Burleigh Heads to Snapper Rocks. The Saves the Waves Coalition awarded the World Surfing Reserve designation to the Gold Coast in 2016.

In 1982, McKinnon received a degree in Visual Arts from the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education; in 2020 he received a BA in Human Geography from Southern Cross University, and also hosted the biennial Global Wave Conference.

Hi Matt,A couple of things I missed.
Rated 5th on ASP World Longboards 198- 89.
Turned into a conservationist activist as an organizer with Bring Back Kirra Australia Day Paddleout 2009.
Organiser of Rally to Save Kirra opposed to Ocean Terminal proposal and advocate for a World Surfing Reserve in 2014.
As Chairman of Gold Coast World Surfing Reserve gained the support of the Qld State Governmment and City of Gold Coast Council approval for Burleigh Beach to Snapper Rocks 16 k stretch of southern Gold Coast and all beaches in between in 2016 to become the 8th WSR.
Received Spirit of Surfing Award at Surfing Australia Hall of Fame Awards in 2016 for the nomination of the GC WSR.

Host organizer of the 6th biennial Global Wave Conference in 2020 at Southern Cross University.
Haha the other side of AndyMacs events!!Chrs AM

ohh and not to forget currently the organiser of the Legends of Surf 72 Exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of a momentous year in surfing events in 1972!
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FULL NAME: Stewart Andrew McKinnon goes by middle name (Family tradition) nick name is AndyMac.

HEIGHT AND WEIGHT AT PEAK of SURFING CAREER: 5/7 haha I was once a 9 stone vegetarian in the 70s

RAISED IN (INCLUDE YEARS MOVED IN/OUT): Left Melbourne when I was 7 years old and moved to the Gold Coast with my Mum & Dad where I started surfing in 1962

FATHER'S OCCUPATION (when you were born): Andrew Gordon McKinnon - Bookstore Newsagent managing one of Meloburne biggest bookstores McGills that as a technical book store that supplied Universities and other Educational Institutions.

MOTHER'S OCCUPATION: My Mum left school at 14 and worked in an Insurance office in Melbourne where she me my Dad. Always busy had her own milkbar business in Blackrock. Loved to sing and dance, a natural born entertainer with sharp wit and verbal skills.

BEGAN SURFING WHERE: Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast

STANCE: Goofy-foot but could switchstance.

MARRIED? (IF SO, FULL NAME OF SPOUSE(S), AND DATE(S) OF MARRIAGE): Twice married. Amanda-Jayne Hurst 1981 divorced in 1999. Re married Megan Lee Giddins 2004 -

CHILDREN (IF SO, FULL NAME AND DATE OF BIRTH FOR EACH CHILD): Blake Andrew 04071983, Lachlan Anthony Andrew 29111985

IF YOU WENT TO COLLEGE, LIST YEARS ATTENDED, NAME OF COLLEGE, YEAR Kauai Community College 1972 (Political Science), Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education, Diploma of Visual Arts 1980 - 1982, Southern Cross University Batchelor of Arts degree majoring in human geography 2017 - 2020. Currently enrolled at Griffith University as a B Arts Hons student 2021 -

CHRONOLOGY OF WHERE YOU'VE LIVED, WITH APPROX. MOVE-IN, MOVE-OUT DATES: Travelled extensensively.

Gold Coast 1959 - 1973, ( Kauai 1972), Byron Bay, NSW 1973 - 1974, Phillip Island, Victoria 1974 - 1977, Whale Beach, Sydneys Northern Beaches, NSW 1977 - 1979. Byron Bay, NSW 1980 - 1989. Gold Coast 1989 - 

CHRONOLOGY OF YOUR WORK LIFE; PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT, JOB TITLES, DATES

ARRIVED AND DEPARTED: Byron Express ( For a Higher Shire!) 1973, so many different jobs thoroughout the 70s lawnmowing, grapepicking, farmhand, mudbricks, restaurant and hotel work, free lance writer for Tracks, Surf reporter for ABC Double Jay,

Health Food Shop owner " Don't Panic It's Organic". 80's Newspaper columinst, RSL bartendar Ballina & Byron, Newspaper Advertising Northern Star, Video operator filming football and surfing events.

1989 Full time surf reporter for 90.9 SEAFM on the Gold Coast. Newspaper columnist Tweed Daily News and 7& Prime TV Surf reporter, Surfing commenter for ASP, Surfing Australia and Surfing Qld. Freelance writer for Surfing Life magazine, Gold Coast Surf, Pacific Longboarder. Retired from Radio in 2017 to go back to Uni at 64 to finish a B Arts degree.


LIST OF MAJOR AMATEUR COMPETITION WINS or TITLES:

1967 Queensland State Cadet (u/14) State title ( My first competition). Burleigh Point.Was invited to join Windansea Surf Club (Gold Coast) as youngest member 14 years old.1970 won the Bobby Brown Open memorial at 16 at Wanda Beach, Cronulla.1970 - 71 Queensland Junior title consecutive winner D-Bah & Snapper Rocks.1971 First Australian Schoolboys National champion D-Bah. 1/4 finalist at Makaha International Juniors.1972 3rd Qld State Titles Open, 5th in Nationals, 6th in the San Diego World Surfing Championships.1973 2GO Central Coast Champion.Main event Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach Easter 1973 - 76, Best result was 7th in 1975.Cokeacola Surfabout 12th 1974.1975 - Pt Leo Portsea Pro runner-up1977 3rd Open Mens Australian Titles1977 Durban 500 1/4 finalist.1987 Australian Longboard Champion.1988 World Amateur Longboard Champion Puerto Rico.1996 Australian 0/45 National Longboard Champion.2001 Snowy McCallister Longboards champion o/35 & noseriding champion.2004 Runner-up Bali Om Longboard Kuta Beach.2009 Qld State Longboard O/55 Champion.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR CAREER IN SURFING, ACHIEVEMENTS, ETC:

Promising Junior career that led to a run in open events with one foot in and one foot out. I never thought I could be a World Champion despite coming close in 1972 and then had my chance in Puerto Rico 1988. I thought that there would be more I could do as a writer, commentator, media events operator than a competitor but never lost sight of loving just going surfing for the fun of it.

CURRENTLY LIVING IN (CITY, STATE, COUNTRY):


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Andrew McKinnonChairmanGold Coast World Surfing Reserve Inc.
Ph: 0412754974


McKinnon, Andrew

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