The many trophies Ian won, including Australian titles, will be on display as will many of the surfboards he designed and shaped and his iconic dune buggy, which took him to tournaments up and down the coast.

“Ian was a community icon, a unique character and a bloody good surfer,” fellow Tuross Head surfing veteran Greg Woodford said.

“As well as his wins he designed and shaped many of his own boards, including some shaped like coke bottles and some you could fold up and put in a suitcase.”

The paddlers will form a circle off One Tree Point and Ian’s children, Sarah, Josh and Aaron, will scatter his ashes at the spot that meant so much to him.

Afterward, many of Ian’s surfing movies will be shown at Tuross Head Country Club.   

At the age of 52 in 2006, he won the over -35 division at the prestige Noosa Festival of Surfing.

In doing so he defeated the then Australian over 35 champion Damien Coulter, 15 years his junior.

“When I was announced the winner, there was a bloke on a mobile phone and he said ‘some old bloke’s dished up Coulter, he looks about 60’,” Ian said at the time.

Before that, he had won the over 45s division at the Australian Longboard Titles in South Australia in 2003.

He surfed in many different countries around the world and list of his achievements and adventures are many.