AL MERRICK / CHANNEL ISLANDS

“Since 1969, Channel Islands Surfboards has been dedicated to performance and quality through hard work, innovation, and originality. In the last 36 years, my business, along with my surfboards, has grown from a local grass-roots operation to a cutting edge organization, catering to the best surfers in the world. I started with hard-core surfing and quality in mind and these guidelines have brought Channel Islands Surfboards through three decades of constant change in the surf industry. Channel Islands will shape the new millennium with innovative design and quality as our main focus.

The driving force behind Channel Islands Surfboards is the demand on design created by the world’s greatest surfers, allowing for the highest performance surfing possible. To provide the most dedicated surfers with the most advanced, performance designs is my passion.”

— Al Merrick, Owner/Shaper

Our current CI inventory is listed below. Click on the board name for a description of the board's shape and the ideal conditions/rider for which the board is designed. These descriptions are just screen captures from the CI website. It's a great site if you want to really learn about the different shapes because each board has a little video with Al talking about the specific shape and design.

This page was last updated on: Tue, Feb 26, 2008
Inventory changes often — call for availabilty or new arrivals.

NEW! The Biscuit: 5'6, 5'8, 5'10

XTR Epoxy boards: 6'6 K-Small

Taylor Knox: 6'6

Retro CI Fish: 5'10, 6'2, 6'3

Quad Skinny Fish: 6'6

Retro 80s Quad: out of stock

K-Board: 6'7, 6'6 Tuflite, 6'9 Tuflite

MBM: 6'2, 6'3, 6'4, 6'6

MX: 6'2

Flyer: 6'1 Tuflite, 6'8

Flyer II: 6'3, 6'3 Tuflite, 6'4, 6'9, 7'0 Tuflite

Sashimi: 6'1

MBB: 7'4 (black/grey flames)

M13: 7'0 Tuflite, 7'4, 7'6 Tuflite, 7'10

Black Beauty: 6'3, 6'9

Skinny Fish Twin: 5'8, 6'2

The Mongrel: 6'2, 6'4

Waterhog: 7'2 Tuflite (red/gray), 7'4 (blue swirl), 7'6 (light blue deck), 7'10 Tuflite

MSF Single Fin: 6'9 (orange bottom with orange/yellow swirl deck), 7'0 (red)

MSFG2 Single Fin (second generation single fin): 5'10, 6'10

Rob Machado SUP Quad: 9'0