Historic Bells Beach shack that birthed Rip Curl lists for under one million dollars!

35 Great Ocean Road, Jan Juc, seeks surf and history lover!

Long before being bought by a camping retailer, dumping its CIS white male CEO and pivoting in and then out of the queer market,  Rip Curl was a backyard surfboard company called Rip Curl Hot Dog.

In an aluminium shed out the  back of 35 Great Ocean Road, Doug Warbrick and his pal Brian Singer started making surfboards to fund lives built around surfing nearby Bells Beach. 

Soon, they’d move into a new joint up the road, the old Torquay bakery, shorten the name to Rip Curl and, along with Alan Green, who’d later split to start Quiksilver, start making wetsuits.

A few decades later, all of ‘em rich as hell.

And four years ago, after taking a dozen years to find a buyer they could live with and that and with the necessary bankroll, Brian and Doug sold Rip Curl to camping retailer Kathmandu for $A350.

Brian and Doug’s 35.5 percent each of Rip Curl got ’em $58 million apiece.

Anyway, the beach shack at 35 Great Ocean Road, Jan Juc, sixty-five miles out of Melbourne, has just been listed with hopes of around a mill, mill-on, Australian dollars, 650 to 710k US. 

(US readers take note, no property taxes in Australia. You buy, it’s yours.)

And, in the back yard, still, is the historic shed where Rip Curl began. A holy shrine, you’d think. What’s very cool is over the course of almost six decades, no one has touched the shed. 

The shack, meanwhile, has been gussied up real fine while keeping its ancient roots alive.

“They have kept it like a nice authentic beach house feel but the vendor has certainly, because she lived in it for a long time, she has done some great work in renovating it over the years,” selling agent Kellie Papworth told the property press.

Examine, and if you can handle the long winters, buy here.