Sign of Good Times Ahead

Sunday, October 31, 2010








Surfy Surfy Surf Shop celebrates it's 6 month anniversary with the installation of our new sign. The letters were individually handcarved by shop co-founder Jon Pankopf. We repeat, these are handcarved letters, they were NOT milled on a cnc machine.
All summer long Jon painstakingly carved, whittled, sanded and coated all 10 solid wood letters until his fingers were bloody, his back hurt and his nose clogged.
The effort was well worth it and we are super stoked. We hope you will come down and check it out in person.
Thanks to surfers Mitch and Marty Talcove of Exotic Hardwoods

We need shortboards too

Thursday, October 28, 2010








6'1" x 18 3/8" x 2 5/16"
For sale via the online store

5'10" Mandala Surfy Stub 2+1

Tuesday, October 26, 2010




When it comes to groovy surfboards on the internet it's hard to beat the finely fluid foils of Mani Caro and his Mandala Surfboards label. Mani now lives in the same neighborhood that Surfy Surfy Surf Shop is located in. He also shapes at Moonlight Glassing, the factory where all the Surfy Surfy surfboards are made. So Mani is in the thick of it.
The Surfy Stub is a modified version of Mani's regular Stubbie. In a late night collaboration over espresso and jazz we made some changes to his standard Stubbie (ok, actually it was over lunch at In 'N Out Burger). We trimmed the ears off the round nose. We also thinned out the nose which you could see if we could ever figure out how to take a decent rocker profile photo. The bottom is performance built single to double vee instead of being hullish. The rails are crisp. The rocker is a nice blend paddle and performance.
We've made the Surfy Stub as tri-fins, quads and 2+1's. The small side bites give you just enough extra off the bottom and in cutbacks where a single fin might over pivot.
For the photos we put in a 7.5" L-Flex fin but your favorite 7" fin will do. Some riders use the 7" Bonzer fin and others the Greenough 4A.
This board is 5'10" x 20 3/8" wide x 2 3/8" thick. Opaque resin tint and gloss and polish. Available down at Surfy Surfy Surf Shop. Custom orders encouraged!

Space Glide

Sunday, October 24, 2010








Randy from O.B. San Diego shapes his own boards and takes them to Moonlight Glassing so he can get groovy paint jobs by Peter St Pierre and clean resin tints by Gary Stuber. This board has both.
Randy's blog: Smooth Glide

Craigg's New/Old Skip Frye

Thursday, October 21, 2010










Craigg picked up this early 1990s Skip Frye up at a garage sale recently. As you can see this board spent many, many fine hours down at the beach due to the severe sun bleached bottom. Craig brought this board into the shop to get some ding repair done. Jimmy Robertson of Lokbox fin system happens to have a ding repair shop so we sent it to him to get fixed up. Jimmy ended doing a nice semi-restoration by re-sanding, re-glossing and re-polishing it. Now it's all sealed up and ready slide another 20 years.
*On a related note, there is a slightly surreal cover story about getting a Skip Frye surfboard in this week's San Diego Reader: I Finally Got Skip Frye to Make Me a Surfboard

Octa-Merk!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010







Behold, the Octa-Merk! We morphed the Mini-Merk and the Octafish into this handy dandy shred machine. You should totally get one.
5'10" x 19 7/8" 2 3/8"
Octa-Merk review on Surfer Mag Design Forum.