This custom order Channel Islands Semi-Pro model for Paul C. just might be the nicest CI I've ever seen.
Powder blue resin tint with wetsanded gloss finish. Rare CA hexes. 5 box FCS Fusion set-up.
6'10" x 20 3/8" x 2 15/16"
Spiffy!
Sometimes they come back: 1990’s CI MTF
5’11” Channel Islands Surfboards Merrick Twin Finner model. My personal custom board from the second half of the 1990’s. I sold it cheap to Sunset Surfboards in Encinitas when Brian Fredrickson owned it. Then shop manager Scott Overland snatched it up. Last week I was surprised to see it walk in through the front door of Surfy Surfy Surf Shop under Scott’s arm.
This board was rad because it featured super cool hot coat pinlines by my Dad Peter St Pierre, who even signed it which he never ever did.
The large Moonlight Glassing oval is super rare, especially on a Channel Islands who later became pretty strict about keeping the glass shop logos minimal and on the bottom of the board only.
The CI hex logo dates this board after 1995 because it is the first redesign hex by Factory 101. 
I think I sold this board because I thought it was too narrow. It’s under 19″ and my first magic MTF was over 19″ and had a stubbier nose. At the time these MTF’s looked like radical space ships, but now just look like the normal weird boards we ride everyday ha ha.
A lot of Channel Islands surfboards in the 1990’s had cool carbon fiber inside foil layups. Scott even managed to hang onto the original mini trailer “shark fin”.
One thing interesting about this board that you can’t really see in the photos is that the whole board is glossed and polished except for a pyramid around the fin cluster that I had taped off and wetsanded. I liked to do that to my personal boards because I thought it looked crafty and had some ideas about waterflow at the time. It is also easier to wetsand around glass-on fins and deep vee than to polish.
Scott Overland kept this board in his quiver for well over a decade.
I often felt a twinge of jealousy seeing him riding it and he rode it well.
Scott is now employed by the surf accessories company Da Kine, therefore the big sticker on the bottom.
Scott wanted a new board for his young daughter who is stoked on surfing, so I bought it back and he used it the money on a nice DK Fish off the rack.
I’m stoked to have it back in the quiver!
— JP St Pierre
*get yourself a mini shark tooth trailer via our online store: clicky
Early 90’s Sunburst CI
A kid and his Dad brought this board into the shop the other day. It’s a Moonlight glassed Channel Islands from the early 1990’s. Back then a lot of CI’s that ran through Moonbase were glossed and polished and all had glass-on fins. This board is from right before the surfboard industry switched over to fin systems in mass.
The kid had picked it up used last year and learned to surf on it. It’s still in A condition crazy enough. The bottom is slightly more yellowed than the washed out photo shows but this board is clean.
It’s the MBB model. 7’4″ x 21″ wide x 2 3/4″
Airbrush by Peter St Pierre. Longevity glass-job by Gary Stuber.
It’s for sale down at Surfy Surfy if you gotta have it. $350
Little Flashy
5'8" CI Biscuit with a flashy airbrush and polished gloss.
20 1/4" wide x 2 3/4" thick
Premium California Gravy
Did you know that you can order custom Channel Islands Surfboards with deluxe Moonlight Glassing glass-jobs via Surfy Surfy Surf Shop? It’s true!
Sweet red tint by Gary Stuber. Rare California hex by Surfy Surfy insider Jon Pankopf of Factory 101. Shown here with the ultra-rad FCS Nexus fins.
For Aaron C.
Space Gravy
Custom Channel Islands Gravy model painted by Moonlight Glassing’s Peter St Pierre for Andrew.
