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Channel Islands Surfboards began in 1969 with Al Merrick (the owner + head shaper) and has been dedicated to performance and quality through hard work and innovation ever since. In the last 36 years, Channel Islands Surfboards has grown from a local grass-roots operation to a cutting edge shaping business, catering to the best surfers in the world. Channel Islands have hand-shaped over 700,00 surfboards - that is staggering. Whats more, these surfboards have been surfed to 16 World Titles!

Channel Islands Surfboards started with hard-core surfing and quality in mind and these guidelines have brought the Surfboards through 30 years of constant change within the sometimes volatile surf industry. Watch the history of Al Merrick surfboards come alive in Flow DVD released 2006.

Channel Islands Surf Team

Al Merrick reckons the reason why his surfboards go so well is the testing done by the surf team….and lets face it - he’s probably right. With a surf team that includes the following bunch its hard to argue:

Kelly Slater, Skingod Collins, Rob Machado, Bobby Martinez, Kalani Robb, Timmy Curran, Dylan Graves, Taylor Knox, Dane Reynolds, Lisa Andersen, Rochelle Ballard, Julia Christian, Sofia Molanovich, Karina Petroni, Lee Ann Curren, Cory Arrambide, Joe Curren, Miky Picon, Dane Gudauskas, Pat Gudauskas, Tanner Gudauskas, Yadin Nicol, Adam Wickwire plus a few more.

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Byrne Surfboards are one of the world’s best known surfboard brands, and one of the best in the Southern Hemisphere also. Australian surfboard shaper Phil Byrne has been shaping his famous line of surfboards since 1975 after a long stint of surfing perfect waves throughout Indonesia and Hawaii. Byrne Surfboards have continued to be in great demand down the years thanks to their excellent board designs and relationship with World Champion surfer Tom Carroll.

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Rusty surfboards have a long and famous position in the history of surfboard making. Rusty Preisendorfer shaped his first surfboard back in 1969 and hasn’t looked back since along 40 years in board making in California. Many legends of the sport such as Peter Townsend and Wes Laine have taken Rusty’s surfboards to the waves. Rusty has shaped under not a few labels down the years and surfed on the teams of other influential surfboard manufacturers. Rusty brings years of dedicated craftsmanship and genuine stoke of surfing to the sport.

Now, Rusty’s industry leading surfboard shape are available in the range of Surftech Surfboards, taking his purified templates to the mass-production era.

Rusty wanted ”to provide surfers around the world with a lightweight & more durable option, I’ve chosen Surftech’s Tuflite technology to reproduce some of my most popular shapes. I wanted to provide surfers with a lightweight and more durable option. Surftech’s proven Tuflite technology was the best choice…it’s all about surfing.”

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