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Channel Islands Lead Shaper and Designer Britt Merrick starting to shape a CI 2.Pro model for one of his international team riders Joao Chianca, who finished the 2023 WSL season with a ranking of ...
Brad Anderson joined the company as co-owner, and Grain moved into a workshop at Side Hill Farm in York. [7] Grain has made a wooden version of Channel Islands Surfboards ' 'Biscuit' since 2009. [6] The original Biscuit won the 2008 Surf Industry Manufacturers Association Award. [8]
Burton also owned surfboard manufacturer Channel Islands, but sold the brand in 2020. [29] The Burton line is split into four categories: freeride, for a big mountain ride; freestyle, for a versatile ride; park, for freestyle disciplines such as half-pipe and slopestyle; and carving, for carving down the sides of mountains.
Slater historically and exclusively rode Channel Islands Surfboards equipped with his own signature series of FCS fins. As the media hype grew around Slater's lack of board stickers in 2015, Slater had been seen riding unlabelled Firewire surfboards, acquiring the company in 2014. [18] In 2016 Slater released his own line of boards.
In 1992, Chris' shaping career began with a six-year apprenticeship to shaping legend, Dick Brewer (1936-2022). It was perfecting the skill of shaping boards under Brewer, and the influence of his then neighbor, Skip Frye, that solidified Chris' abilities to design and shape any size surfboard, which would later open the door to shaping big wave guns for the world's best big wave surfers.
In 1961, Clark set up his own company, Clark Foam. Originally located in Laguna Canyon, it later moved to Laguna Niguel. [9] Clark introduced a number of innovations in the production of surfboard blanks, including the use of steel reinforced cement molds, hydraulic glue presses, hot coating, and the use of computers in the manufacturing process.