The CI Bonzer 3D
Duncan and Malcolm Campbell’s Bonzer design should have revolutionized surfing when it first appeared in the early ’70s. With a clustered fin setup and dramatic double concave bottom contour, The Bonzer represented a drasti[...]
Duncan and Malcolm Campbell’s Bonzer design should have revolutionized surfing when it first appeared in the early ’70s. With a clustered fin setup and dramatic double concave bottom contour, The Bonzer represented a drasti[...]
The faster you go, the faster you go. This zen koan is also the clever-ish tagline selling Quobba fins, an Australian company that's using the Margies event to shock the world (maybe) with their new fin design. Glenn Miller and Wayne B[...]
Since launching in the early 2000s, Southern California's Album Surfboards has cultivated worldwide intrigue, adapting an emphasis on elegant, minimal aesthetics to a range of distinctive, functional shapes built for a variety of waves[...]
Since hitting the shelves in 2017, the Tomo/Slater Designs Sci-Fi model has become on[...]
Ten feet and one inch of foam, three wooden stringers and an ample serving of resin-t[...]
Noosa-based shaper Thomas "Doc" Bexon has been cranking out heaps of twin-fin fishes [...]
Last week, we asked Pe’ahi Challenge winner Ian Walsh and shaper Chris Christen[...]
It was sometime in the late 1960s. Master California shaper Marc Andreini, a then-15-year-old surf-obsessed grom, was captaining a Boston Whaler along the coast of the hollowed Hollister Ranch when he pulled into the cove at Government[...]
The 2017 Pe’ahi Challenge was a monumental two days of surfing. Simply put, the bar has been raised. Since the shift from tow-in surfing to paddle-in, the best big-wave surfers have elevated their ability to take off steeper, dee[...]
It's been nearly 60 years since Mickey Muñoz introduced the world to the "Quasimoto.[...]
We can’t get enough of surfboards. To add even more board-speak to your daily d[...]
It's early on a mid-week afternoon, and the Ricky Carroll Surfboards production facil[...]
Due in large part to Thomas Campbell's early films "The Seedling" and "Sprout," whic[...]
Word around town is that people love–I mean love–Channel Island’s s[...]
A couple of years ago, Santa Barbara shaper Ryan Lovelace's career was at an impasse. Approaching 30, he'd already been shaping for a full one-third of his life, piquing the interests of inquisitive surf enthusiasts with offbeat, yet h[...]
For the most part, big-wave guns have looked much the same for the last few decades. Sure, shapers have made incremental changes to volume, fin placement, rocker, bottom contours, etc., but the general shape of a big-wave surfboard loo[...]