MEMBERS of Port Macquarie's longboard contingent are waxing up their boards and are ready to kick off a new season.
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They will take signatures of new members at Town Beach on Sunday.
Snags will sizzle from 8am at the beach and members of the Port Macquarie Longboard Club will be on hand to take questions and sign people up.
Supporting the next generation in the water is the club's goal this season, while also retaining the social side of the sport for members.
President Glen Alexander and co love to have some fun in the water, but they will have a serious side this season. Alexander wants to bring the Point Plomer Challenge Trophy back to the Port club.
The northern club has a dominance over the competition which resembles Queensland's recently-broken State of Origin stranglehold.
"It's been a few years," Alexander said, referring to the last time the Port Macquarie club had the trophy in town.
"We want to bring the trophy back."
This year's Point Plomer Challenge is set down for August 22. There are other weekends for club members to socialise.
"We have two Plomer weekends where the teams get together," Alexander said. "The rivalry does come out between the clubs."
The club has plenty of women involved, but Alexander wants to get more juniors on their boards and into the water.
"They're the future of the club," he said.
You don't even have to be particularly good.
"Even if you can just stand up on a board and want to have a go," Alexander said.
Alexander has just entered his third year of the presidency. Geoff Williams is the vice-president.
Club committee: Secretary Garry Maxwell, Treasurer Shelley Robertson, contest directors Geoff Miller and John Hopkins, media officer Natalie Kube, transport officer Jason Dower.
