Billy Bain is a surfer, an artist with work in this year's Wynne and Sulman prizes at the Art Gallery of NSW, and a Dharug man whose ancestors came from the land where Western Sydney sprawls.

"For Elo, the more we knew him, the more we rejected him."

With a history of board building stretching back to WWII, Woods set the template for the Australian surfboard industry.

So who will buy the Woz if or when it falters?

Tyler Wright and Ethan Ewing Finish runner-up.