About 80 kids joined in the tournament named in the Hastings former professional surfer Darren O'Rafferty's name.

O'Rafferty himself was on hand to surf along with several other local legends and surfing identities including Ian Bell, Wayne McLeary and Damian King.

Helen Cross-Glover said everyone involved had a great time and there has been talk of the event returning every couple of years.

"It was a fantastic weekend," she said.

"The surf was great and it picked up even more on Sunday.

"The standard of surfing was really high too.

"We could go just about anywhere in Australia and our kids would be just as good as any other around."

Cross-Glover said the surf was ideal on the Saturday for the junior surfers but turned out too good on the Sunday.

"The junior surfers were meant to surf off against their heroes in the celebrity competition but the surf was too big," she said.

"But it was perfect for the older experienced surfers who still took to the waves."

It was bodyboarder King who took out the celebrity event with the competition's namesake in second followed by McLeary.

Nine boards were given out to surfers and everyone who took part received a competitors pack.

Results;

Bodyboard

12 years

1st Tyler Gardiner

2nd Jake Cross

3rd Deano Williams

14 years

1st Jimmy Fredricks

2nd Dan Vercoe

3rd Grant Vercoe

16 years

1st Koby McLure

2nd Jack Vercoe

3rd Tiaan Smith

18 years

1st Tyrone Hillinem

2nd Jye Chalker

3rd Fletcher

Shortboard

12 years B

1st Sarah Stewart

2nd Rhys Hedges

3rd Taz Pryce-Boland

12 years

1st Nate Hopkins

2nd Dylan Boland

3rd Corey Lawson

14 years

1st Judd Brown

2nd Rhys Lawson

3rd Kai McKenzie

16 years

1st Ben Howard

2nd Cam Hopkins

3rd Jack Clarke

18 boys

1st Ben Howard

2nd Kurt Wilson

3rd Jack Clarke

Cadet girls

1st Chelsea Green

2nd Lucy Green

3rd Hannah Byron

Longboard

18 years

1st Danny Schouten

2nd Zane Ryan

3rd Jeremy Drewit