Just off the jet and back on the North Shore! “Mecca”, the “Seven Mile Mir­a­cle” what­ever you wanna call it, the North Shore of Oahu is the place where the entire surf world col­lides for two months. The Surftech crew made the five hour pil­grim­age to Hawaii with big plans… we’ll be hook­ing up with some of the world’s best to find some waves and put the boards to the test. We’ll keep you posted on how that’s going.  Check back here for updates.

With a truck load of boards we left Hon­olulu bound for the North Shore. Surf check, Lanis, Logs, Sun­set… all looked pretty good. Solid ENE swell in the water. So where’d we surf you ask? Right behind the house. A wedg­ing left­hander, no one out!

With the cur­rent run­ning like a river, no food in our guts and light fad­ing fast, we tossed the boards in the truck and raided Food­land. Not a good idea to gro­cery shop on an empty stom­ach after surf­ing for two hours… we had the cart full by isle 3.

Tomor­row morn­ing up at the crack headed for Ehukai.

Stay tuned.

You can pick up Surftech’s new Ultra­FLX boards in these locations:

		Gorge Per­for­mance 7400 S.W. Macadam Port­land, OR 97219 (503) 246‑6646 www.gorgeperformance.com
		Free­line, Santa Cruz, CA 821 41st ave Santa Cruz, CA 95032 (831) 476‑2950  http://www.freelinesurf.com/
		ZJ Board­ing House 2619 Main St Santa Mon­ica, CA 90405 (310) 392‑5646 www.zjboardinghouse.com
		Cin­na­mon Rain­bow 931 Ocean Blvd Hamp­ton, NH 03842 (603) 929‑7467 www.cinnamonrainbows.com
		Real Water­sports 25706 High­way 12 Waves, NC 27982 (252) 995‑6596 www.realwatersports.com
		Surftech Hawaii 945 Queen St Hon­olulu, HI 96814 (808) 596‑8690 www.Surftech.com

Randy French,  founder and head shaper at Surftech, takes some time to explain the char­ac­ter­is­tics of his glass­ing meth­ods. This video goes a long way toward dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing the Ultra­FLX line from any other surf­board out there.

Nearly 900 peo­ple, includ­ing elite ath­letes from all over the coun­try, par­tic­i­pated in one of the most envi­ron­men­tally con­scious triathlons in the world Sun­day at McN­ears Beach County Park on San Rafael California’s east side.

Rac­ers were treated to a per­fect day at the sec­ond annual Marin County Triathlon, a fundraiser for sev­eral nonprofits.

TJ Tol­lak­son, 29, a pro triath­lete from Des Moines, Iowa, was the top male fin­isher in 1 hour, 55 min­utes, 40 sec­onds. Sarah Hask­ins claimed the women’s crown in 2:03:26.

While the ath­letes were out on the race course, the Surftech SUP demo was treat­ing spec­ta­tors to the world’s hottest new water sport, stand up pad­dling. When the rac­ers fin­ished their race, many of them joined the fun at the Surftech tent down at the waters edge. Notable triath­letes includ­ing Chris Lieto and TJ Tol­lak­son to triathlon coaches Reid & Eileen Swan­son of Tri Lab Coach­ing, Neil Fraser of Tri More Fit­ness and Dor­rette Franks of Trifin­ity to triathlon hope­fuls and non-athletes alike, the water was filled with stand up pad­dlers enjoy­ing the beau­ti­ful day on offer in Marin County pad­dling the best stand up pad­dle­boards on the planet!