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Click for Buyer's Blog	Surfboards \| Surf Accessories \| Wetsuits \| Skates \| Bodyboards \| Apparel & Accessories Surfing and Surfboards is why we have our shop. So Aqua focuses on American, Hawaiian, and Australian made surfboards. At Aqua we are inspired by good relationships and communication with our shapers. These character's histories, experience, and craftsmanship are what fuel our work ethic and at the end of the day get us excited to go surfing. Featuring: CHANNEL ISLANDS: www.cisurfboards.com My current favorite is a 6'0 Red Beauty, while a lot of guys on the beach are loving the new MBM model. Visit CI's new site and see what model you'll be frothing over, or come into the shop and we'll go thru the models with you to find the best fit for your surfing style. VESSO: www.vessosurf.com From the Eastside of Oahu comes Vesso- working closely with team riders, Kekoa Bacalso, and Duane DeSoto, Vesso makes beautiful high performance boards. We are proud to offer Kerry's boards. Click on the above link to see their current models. SIMON ANDERSON SURFBOARDS: www.pipedreamsurfboards.com The creator of the modern day Thruster, is currently making some of the most beautiful short-boards we have ever held in our hands. Simon is working with a collective of Australian shaping legends under the name of BASE. Visit Simon's website to see and read about his new models. DHD: www.pipedreamsurfboards.com "Darren Handley continues to remain at the forefront of cutting edge surfboard design and sets industry bench-marks for quality and performance." World Champ Mick Fanning is proving that Darren Handley is handy at making some of the fastest and most responsive short boards on the market today. Click on the link to see the templates DHD offers and see which one will best suit your surfing XANADU: www.xanadusurfdesigns.com Our good friend, and one of the best high-performance surfboard shapers out there today. Xanadu is an eccentric, very passionate shaper. He has posted some good team rider short films at http://www.myspace.com/xanadusurfdesigns. Read about Xanadu and his boards at his website, linked above SURF PRESCRIPTIONS: Doc is offering "More choices then ever" in materials and templates. You can learn more about his wide array of models at the above site and be sure to check out his Doc-U-Mentry! Also visit his YouTube site where he has a video about each model he offers- http://youtube.com/user/SurfPrescriptions STRETCH: www.stretchboards.com Surfboard Magazine's "2005 Shaper of the Year" has continued to go strong in 2008. By far the most boards we move are his famous "Fletcher Four-Fins', but do not miss out on his other shapes, such as "The What?!", "S2B" and others! Visit his site to learn more about William "Stretch" Riedel and his boards. CHEMISTRY: www.chemistrysurfboards.com Michael Baron is back! With the creation of chemistry, Michael's focus is high performance, originality, and innovation. Michael is leading a team of young talented shapers including Wally Puha and Jason Bennett. These guys are in it for all the right reasons- their love of our sport. Visit their site to see their complete line up of high performance short-boards. VERNOR: www.vernorsurfboards.com We have never worked with a shaper that is as consistent as David Vernor. Vernor shapes- and has your custom board ready for you- in around two weeks!. Vernor hand shapes all his boards right down the road from us in Santa Cruz, and is always friendly and available to help with any of your surfboard related questions. Contact him at contact@vernorsurfboards.com JS: www.jsindustries.com Another of today's most in-demand short board shapers- JS is a brilliant surfer/shaper with a power house team backing his designs comprised of Parko, Bruce Irons (Andy too), Occy and Luke. To see his current line, click on the link above. SF: www.sfsurf.com My friend John Schultze of SF Surfboards knows how to make you the right board for SF's Ocean Beach. Only problem is tracking the busy guy down. Don't worry about that though that's my problem! "Made in SF by un-oppressed labor (We blow off to surf) Honesty and Truth in every board Plus LOVE & TOLERANCE To bring you new to new places that MOTHER NATURE never allowed." John you @&#%^$ Hippy. John makes wonderful surfboards that make people happy. Every San Franciscan surfer should have one of John's shapes in their quiver. HOBIE:* www.hobie.com Boards so beautiful, you want to hang them in the living room, but they stay waxed up in the garage because they ride so well! Lead by shaping legends such as Terry Martin and Midget Smith, Hobie consistently sends us the most beautiful, fine-crafted, rippable surfboards ever. Come visit us at the shop for recommendations, but until then have a peek at their website. JED NOLL: www.jednollsurfboards.com Jed carries on the legendary craftsmanship taught to him by his renowned father, Greg, and under Bob Pearson's watchful eye. Jed is remarkable personality who happens to rip and shape some of the highest quality performance long boards, eggs, and fishes around SWIFT: www.theswiftmovement.com Our friends Richard Kenvin and Andrew Kidman, based in Southern California and New South Wales, continue to define "individuality" in our sport and offer a line of art, correction, a line of beautifully made/functional surfboards from a roster of shaping legends. Check out the line in their PDF catalog- www.theswiftmovement.com/Catalogs/Swift_Catalog_2006.pdf Customs are available from all the above shapers. Now we also offer custom surfboards made for you by- GARY LINDEN: www.lindensurfboards.com One of the nicest guys who has seen it all in the surfboard industry, Gary is still charging and still shaping high quality performance surf boards. He has a wide line of fish, short boards, and long boards. SO visit his site to find what suits you, and we will get your order placed. Currently we are riding his parabolic short boards, which give you extra projection/push out of your turns. TIM BESSEL: www.besselsurf.com "Inspired by Bert Burger's Firewire line and a Ron Church photo of Corky Carol holding his parabolic in 1963, I decided to combine yesterday's technology with today's. And now it has come together as the best board I have ever made." That's Tim talking about his REFLEX model- which has a parabolic stringer (two stringers are located along the boards rails instead of running through the center of the blank), which provides directional spring for more responsive turns. Tim also makes a VAST line of different shapes. Check his site for info. Also we stock and order composite boards from: SURFTECH: www.surftech.com Founder Randy French has worked hard and brought a lot of experience into making performance surfboards lighter and stronger using different materials that were once only familiar in the windsurfing industry. Randy now produces surfboards designed by himself and most of the world's top shapers under the Surftech label. Surftech offers a zillion models, so come in and we'll go through the catalog, and find you the right one for you. BOARDWORKS: www.boardworkssurf.com Quality composite surfboards with a more underground flavor designed by Mike Hynson, Bill Stewart, Big Ben Aipa and many others. My current favorite is the Hynson Black Night Quad. Wetsuits From Matuse: www.matuse.com Matuse uses Geoprene to make their suits so warm yet flexible. Geoprene is exclusive to Matuse and is made by the Yamamoto Corporation in Japan. It is derived from 99.7% pure limestone so it is not petroleum based neoprene. It has a denser cell structure than most neoprene which keeps cold water out. XCEL: www.xcelwetsuits.com Suits that are consistently built well, warm and flexible. Xcel has won wetsuit of the year, two years in a row. More importantly for us in SF, Xcel has continually kept us warm in Northern California's frigid waters. Favorites our the 4/3 Infinity and 4/3 Drylock. Hotline: www.hotlineonline.com Skims & Bodyboards From Victoria Surftech Vortex BZ Surf Accessories By Famous OAM Blackline Creatures Da-Kine X-track FCS Future True Ames Rainbow Crow Haley Bullys Block Surf Stay Covered Headhunter & More... Skateboards From Sector 9 Ladera Arbor Bacon Krooked Anti-Hero Blue-print Bern Helmets & more... Shoes & Sandals From Tom's Shoes Fallen Adidas Adio Vox Osiris Reef Sanuk Ocean Minded Rainbow Men's Clothing From Volcom Obey ANDOandFRIENDS Insight Ando Land Matix Element Aqua Surfer Zoo York Lost Xcel RVCA Fallen The Heirloom Collective Lifetime Collective Women's Clothing By The Heirloom Collective Volcom Insight RVCA Obey Spicy Clothing Nikita Matix Element Eden Lifetime Collective ANDOandFRIENDS Blue Platypus Reef & much more... Women's Swimware By L-Space Vitamin A Insight 51 Volcom Reef Vix Salinas Body Glove Sunglasses From Von Zipper Smith Dragon Spy Oakley Electric Ray Ban Watches By Freestyle Nixon Vestal Shop Pets Merle Lilo SURF MOVIES & BOOKS We're complete surf nerds, screening thru all the crap so we can offer the best in surfing cinema and literature. Visit the shop photo gallery and you'll see DVDs and books stacked all over the place.

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Surfing and Surfboards is why we have our shop. So Aqua focuses on American, Hawaiian, and Australian made surfboards. At Aqua we are inspired by good relationships and communication with our shapers. These character's histories, experience, and craftsmanship are what fuel our work ethic and at the end of the day get us excited to go surfing.

Featuring:

CHANNEL ISLANDS: www.cisurfboards.com
My current favorite is a 6'0 Red Beauty, while a lot of guys on the beach are loving the new MBM model. Visit CI's new site and see what model you'll be frothing over, or come into the shop and we'll go thru the models with you to find the best fit for your surfing style.

VESSO: www.vessosurf.com
From the Eastside of Oahu comes Vesso- working closely with team riders, Kekoa Bacalso, and Duane DeSoto, Vesso makes beautiful high performance boards. We are proud to offer Kerry's boards. Click on the above link to see their current models.

SIMON ANDERSON SURFBOARDS: www.pipedreamsurfboards.com
The creator of the modern day Thruster, is currently making some of the most beautiful short-boards we have ever held in our hands. Simon is working with a collective of Australian shaping legends under the name of BASE. Visit Simon's website to see and read about his new models.

DHD: www.pipedreamsurfboards.com
"Darren Handley continues to remain at the forefront of cutting edge surfboard design and sets industry bench-marks for quality and performance." World Champ Mick Fanning is proving that Darren Handley is handy at making some of the fastest and most responsive short boards on the market today. Click on the link to see the templates DHD offers and see which one will best suit your surfing

XANADU: www.xanadusurfdesigns.com
Our good friend, and one of the best high-performance surfboard shapers out there today. Xanadu is an eccentric, very passionate shaper. He has posted some good team rider short films at http://www.myspace.com/xanadusurfdesigns. Read about Xanadu and his boards at his website, linked above

SURF PRESCRIPTIONS:
Doc is offering "More choices then ever" in materials and templates. You can learn more about his wide array of models at the above site and be sure to check out his Doc-U-Mentry! Also visit his YouTube site where he has a video about each model he offers- http://youtube.com/user/SurfPrescriptions

STRETCH: www.stretchboards.com
Surfboard Magazine's "2005 Shaper of the Year" has continued to go strong in 2008. By far the most boards we move are his famous "Fletcher Four-Fins', but do not miss out on his other shapes, such as "The What?!", "S2B" and others! Visit his site to learn more about William "Stretch" Riedel and his boards.

CHEMISTRY: www.chemistrysurfboards.com
Michael Baron is back! With the creation of chemistry, Michael's focus is high performance, originality, and innovation. Michael is leading a team of young talented shapers including Wally Puha and Jason Bennett. These guys are in it for all the right reasons- their love of our sport. Visit their site to see their complete line up of high performance short-boards.

VERNOR: www.vernorsurfboards.com
We have never worked with a shaper that is as consistent as David Vernor. Vernor shapes- and has your custom board ready for you- in around two weeks!. Vernor hand shapes all his boards right down the road from us in Santa Cruz, and is always friendly and available to help with any of your surfboard related questions. Contact him at contact@vernorsurfboards.com

JS: www.jsindustries.com
Another of today's most in-demand short board shapers- JS is a brilliant surfer/shaper with a power house team backing his designs comprised of Parko, Bruce Irons (Andy too), Occy and Luke. To see his current line, click on the link above.

SF: www.sfsurf.com
My friend John Schultze of SF Surfboards knows how to make you the right board for SF's Ocean Beach. Only problem is tracking the busy guy down. Don't worry about that though that's my problem!
"Made in SF by un-oppressed labor
(We blow off to surf)
Honesty and Truth in every board
Plus LOVE & TOLERANCE
To bring you new to new places that MOTHER NATURE never allowed."
John you @*&#%^$ Hippy. John makes wonderful surfboards that make people happy. Every San Franciscan surfer should have one of John's shapes in their quiver.

HOBIE: www.hobie.com
Boards so beautiful, you want to hang them in the living room, but they stay waxed up in the garage because they ride so well! Lead by shaping legends such as Terry Martin and Midget Smith, Hobie consistently sends us the most beautiful, fine-crafted, rippable surfboards ever. Come visit us at the shop for recommendations, but until then have a peek at their website.

JED NOLL: www.jednollsurfboards.com
Jed carries on the legendary craftsmanship taught to him by his renowned father, Greg, and under Bob Pearson's watchful eye. Jed is remarkable personality who happens to rip and shape some of the highest quality performance long boards, eggs, and fishes around

SWIFT: www.theswiftmovement.com
Our friends Richard Kenvin and Andrew Kidman, based in Southern California and New South Wales, continue to define "individuality" in our sport and offer a line of art, correction, a line of beautifully made/functional surfboards from a roster of shaping legends. Check out the line in their PDF catalog- www.theswiftmovement.com/Catalogs/Swift_Catalog_2006.pdf

Customs are available from all the above shapers. Now we also offer custom surfboards made for you by-

GARY LINDEN: www.lindensurfboards.com
One of the nicest guys who has seen it all in the surfboard industry, Gary is still charging and still shaping high quality performance surf boards. He has a wide line of fish, short boards, and long boards. SO visit his site to find what suits you, and we will get your order placed. Currently we are riding his parabolic short boards, which give you extra projection/push out of your turns.

TIM BESSEL: www.besselsurf.com
"Inspired by Bert Burger's Firewire line and a Ron Church photo of Corky Carol holding his parabolic in 1963, I decided to combine yesterday's technology with today's. And now it has come together as the best board I have ever made." That's Tim talking about his REFLEX model- which has a parabolic stringer (two stringers are located along the boards rails instead of running through the center of the blank), which provides directional spring for more responsive turns. Tim also makes a VAST line of different shapes. Check his site for info.

Also we stock and order composite boards from:

SURFTECH: www.surftech.com
Founder Randy French has worked hard and brought a lot of experience into making performance surfboards lighter and stronger using different materials that were once only familiar in the windsurfing industry. Randy now produces surfboards designed by himself and most of the world's top shapers under the Surftech label. Surftech offers a zillion models, so come in and we'll go through the catalog, and find you the right one for you.

BOARDWORKS: www.boardworkssurf.com
Quality composite surfboards with a more underground flavor designed by Mike Hynson, Bill Stewart, Big Ben Aipa and many others. My current favorite is the Hynson Black Night Quad.

Wetsuits From
Matuse: www.matuse.com
Matuse uses Geoprene to make their suits so warm yet flexible. Geoprene is exclusive to Matuse and is made by the Yamamoto Corporation in Japan. It is derived from 99.7% pure limestone so it is not petroleum based neoprene. It has a denser cell structure than most neoprene which keeps cold water out.

XCEL: www.xcelwetsuits.com
Suits that are consistently built well, warm and flexible. Xcel has won wetsuit of the year, two years in a row. More importantly for us in SF, Xcel has continually kept us warm in Northern California's frigid waters. Favorites our the 4/3 Infinity and 4/3 Drylock.

Hotline: www.hotlineonline.com

Skims & Bodyboards From
Victoria
Surftech
Vortex
BZ

Surf Accessories By
Famous
OAM
Blackline
Creatures
Da-Kine
X-track
FCS
Future
True Ames
Rainbow
Crow Haley
Bullys
Block Surf
Stay Covered
Headhunter
& More...

Skateboards From
Sector 9
Ladera
Arbor
Bacon
Krooked
Anti-Hero
Blue-print
Bern Helmets
& more...

Shoes & Sandals From
Tom's Shoes
Fallen
Adidas
Adio
Vox
Osiris
Reef
Sanuk
Ocean Minded
Rainbow

Men's Clothing From
Volcom
Obey
ANDOandFRIENDS
Insight
Ando Land
Matix
Element
Aqua
Surfer
Zoo York
Lost
Xcel
RVCA
Fallen
The Heirloom Collective
Lifetime Collective

Women's Clothing By
The Heirloom Collective
Volcom
Insight
RVCA
Obey
Spicy Clothing
Nikita
Matix
Element Eden
Lifetime Collective
ANDOandFRIENDS
Blue Platypus
Reef
& much more...

Women's Swimware By
L-Space
Vitamin A
Insight 51
Volcom
Reef
Vix
Salinas
Body Glove

Sunglasses From
Von Zipper
Smith
Dragon
Spy
Oakley
Electric
Ray Ban

Watches By
Freestyle
Nixon
Vestal

Shop Pets
Merle
Lilo

SURF MOVIES & BOOKS
We're complete surf nerds, screening thru all the crap so we can offer the best in surfing cinema and literature. Visit the shop photo gallery and you'll see DVDs and books stacked all over the place.