Technology

 

Materials

Over the years we have tried and continue to test a variety of natural materials in an attempt to create strong, light, Flexible surfboards that perform as well if not better than their synthetic counterparts.

When selecting these materials we think about the lifecycle of that material, how and where it's produced, how it will be processed and implemented in the product, how we can dispose of the excess material and what will happen to that material at the product's end of life.

There are so many criteria these materials have to meet to make it into our boards. The environmental implications of the materials are really important to us, but we also want to create products that perform exceptionally well and last a long time.

We currently use locally blown recyclable EPS foam and bendy ply to make the blank. This gets skinned with Paulownia and cork, which we reinforce underneath with hemp, flax and bio resin, then waterproofed with natural hard wax oil and coloured with paints from the Natural Paint Co.

Construction

We combine these materials through a series of fairly top-secret technical processes to create a board that is well-balanced, has lots of flex, excellent dampening properties while being very hard to snap. We can build other constructions on request but we believe this is the best option for most surfers.