This fine looking surfboard was handshaped by local legend, Ed Wright. It has a beautiful glass job by the original crew at Moonlight Glassing, who all worked for Ed at Sunset Surfboards in the 1970s. An Ed Wright surfboard, glassed by Moonlight, for sale at Surfy Surfy Surf Shop…it’s like the planets are aligned man. For Surfy Surfy stock boards I asked Ed to use his original logo from the 1960s. In the early 1960s, Surfboards Hawaii occupied the building where Surfy Surfy is now located. This is where Ed Wright got his start in the surfboard industry. Ed went on to start Sunset Surfboards in 1968. The upstairs of Sunset was retail and downstairs was the glass shop. This is where Moonlight Glassing was born in 1979.
Peter St Pierre, Gary Stuber, Mark Donnellon and Kenny Mann all worked for Sunset. When Ed wanted to expand the retail section of Sunset, the crew formed Moonlight Glassing and moved out to it’s current location in San Marcos. The same crew of Peter, Gary, Mark and Kenny are still together over 30 years later and built the board pictured in this post. Ed Wright poses with the board inside the building he learned to shape in back in 1965. Surfy Surfy Surf Shop is based on my memories of Ed’s Sunset Surfboards shop when I was a little kid in the 1970s. Ed’s pride and joy, his restored 1947 Ford Woodie. Yup, you can still get longboards at this location.
Your enthusiasm and stoke is contagious. It’s very cool to see the past and present collide in such a groovy way. I’m sure it’s a big reason why you’re doin what you’re doin. And man, Ed’s Woody does NOT suck.
In the early 1960s Surfboards Hawaii was just south of the old laundromat that is now a coffee shop on the south corner of Hwy 101 and Diana, not in the Longboard Grotto building. The building is now a surf school/body boarding business. When Surfboards Hawaii moved, it was into the La Paloma building and then onto the Hill.
The shaping rooms were in the Grotto building. Ed came in and pointed out the shaping stand marks. The rest was in the coffee shop building. My father-in-law worked in there too.
Dude, your totally wrong about Surfboards Hawaii making boards in the building where your surfie bizness is located. The building where you are was a big room where boards were boxed in cardboard for shipping. The small building next to the Little Moore cafe was the “showroom” (a tiny office with a few boards), shaping, glassing, sanding and glossing factory. No boards were ever made in the place you now occupy. Eventually it moved to the former Bank of Amerika building on the corner where a revolving number of bar/restaurants are located, not “the La Paloma” building. Get your history right!
I just got a vintage edwright/sunset board in a trade its a 6 foot quad fin swallow tail and its in pretty good shape also it was done by moonlight glassing co its pink and green is it worth anything?
Anonymous
June 30, 2010i always remember the multiple sttringers on their shortboards really hot look
Glassics
June 30, 2010The circle is unbroken!
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Anonymous
June 30, 2010Your enthusiasm and stoke is contagious. It’s very cool to see the past and present collide in such a groovy way. I’m sure it’s a big reason why you’re doin what you’re doin. And man, Ed’s Woody does NOT suck.
Anonymous
July 1, 2010Caught this video of Sunset back in the day:
Anonymous
July 4, 2010In the early 1960s Surfboards Hawaii was just south of the old laundromat that is now a coffee shop on the south corner of Hwy 101 and Diana, not in the Longboard Grotto building. The building is now a surf school/body boarding business. When Surfboards Hawaii moved, it was into the La Paloma building and then onto the Hill.
Surfy Surfy!
July 5, 2010The shaping rooms were in the Grotto building. Ed came in and pointed out the shaping stand marks. The rest was in the coffee shop building. My father-in-law worked in there too.
Anonymous
December 26, 2010Dude, your totally wrong about Surfboards Hawaii making boards in the building where your surfie bizness is located. The building where you are was a big room where boards were boxed in cardboard for shipping. The small building next to the Little Moore cafe was the “showroom” (a tiny office with a few boards), shaping, glassing, sanding and glossing factory. No boards were ever made in the place you now occupy. Eventually it moved to the former Bank of Amerika building on the corner where a revolving number of bar/restaurants are located, not “the La Paloma” building. Get your history right!
Anonymous
December 26, 2010That anonymous guy is right–and in the ’60s the place was the Rock Garden, a record store and drug den.
Anonymous
December 26, 2010Surfboards Hawaii occupied the part of the la paloma building where the bar is now. The taco shack across the street was the final polish room.
The grotto building had 4 shaping rooms at one point. Get your history straight.
Anonymous
February 9, 2011I just got a vintage edwright/sunset board in a trade its a 6 foot quad fin swallow tail and its in pretty good shape also it was done by moonlight glassing co its pink and green is it worth anything?