Channel Islands Surfboards

Channel Islands Surfboards - Bobby Martinez Home Cookin’

You won’t find Bobby Martinez on social media but you may be among the lucky few to spot him ripping at any of a number of his favorite 805 breaks. Channel Islands’s Sean Lesh tagged along on a few sessions this year with Bobby, and as you can see he’s still as good as ever. Enjoy.

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vid/edit: Sean Lesh
water: Andrew Schoener

Channel Islands Surfboards OG Flyer with Dane Gudauskas

One of our most reliable, best all-around shortboard designs: OG Flyer.

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Surfer is Dane Gudauskas @danedamus
Clips are by Alex Kilauano @alexkilauano

Rip Curl SearchGPS 2 Surf Watch | Stab In The Dark

11 shapers and 11 boards, made up of a combination of stringer less EPS blanks, carbon fibre and epoxy resin. One typhoon, and three World Titles.

This is Mick Fanning's Stab In The Dark, and these are the numbers behind each board.

Recorded with Mick's #SearchGPS 2. Available in store now.

Stab In The Dark: Mick Fanning Tracks His Stats

Mick’s choice for this year’s #stabinthedark winning board wasn’t based on top speed or length of ride, nor should it have been.

There’s no stats associated with how a board ‘feels’ underfoot and that’s fine with us.

In saying that, this year Mick Fanning wore his Rip Curl #searchGPS Surf Watch 2 and on reflecting, it is fascinating to discover just how fast the White Lightning strikes on each of these tricked up surfboards.

Then there’s paddle distance, number of waves surfed and even how far he paddled on each board, numbers that wouldn’t bear much influence on the subjective study’s outcome, but interesting trivial facts regardless.

With the feature still on its premiere tour (more dates incoming), we’ll save the rest of our collected data for later.

PROJECT WIDE: mexico

“There’s nothing more enjoyable than a surf trip to some right points with a crew of friends,” explains Tanner Gudauskas in reference to his edit that features Channel Islands Surfboards all-new groveler model—the Rocket Wide. “Our Project Wide short film mostly celebrates the lighter side of surfing, with me, my brother Dane and Nathaniel Curren in some cruisy Mexican point breaks riding the Rocket Wide we helped design with CI shaper Mike Andrews. I even brought along my 16 mm Bolex to shoot some of the fun as well.”

What’s in Conner’s Board Bag? … ULUWATU Edition

It takes hard work for world tour surfers like Conner Coffin to dial in a surfboard quiver they’re confident will result in heat wins. In this Channel Islands Surfboards series, follow Conner to each world tour stop—as well as some free surf adventures in between—and gain insight into which CI board he pulls out of his travel bag for that particular break, and learn why.

Uluwatu, Bali is a unique left-hander on the tour schedule and Conner's choice to address it was seemingly unexpected—calling upon a trusted design: the Proton. Roughly a decade ago, this model (inspired by Dane Reynolds), was considered to be ahead of its time and quickly became the state-of-the-art performance board that earned CI teamriders countless tour victories. While other models such as the Fever have since become the team’s go-to board on tour, Conner decided to pull out this favorite he’d used countless time before on more powerful waves like Ulus, as well as in the Hawaiian Islands. And as you’ll see it went very well—earning him some convincing heat wins and standout turns along the way. Although not currently a design you’ll find at your local shop, the Proton can still be ordered custom through the Custom Boardbuilder at cisurfboards.com.

Cinematography & Edit by Ryan Perry

Bobby Martinez & Tim Curran Put on a Show

Bobby Martinez & Timmy Curran show the young buck (Andrew Jacobson) how to sniff out a few gems!

Bobby: 5’8 x 19 x 2 5/16 six channel/custom

Timmy: 5’6 x 18 ¾ x 2 5/16 RocketWide in SPINETEK

Andrew: 6’1 x 19 ½ x 2 ½ FEVER

The Queen Awakens

The Queen of the Coast awakens for the Channel Islands team...

Starring: Lakey Peterson, Sage Erickson, Cory Arrambide, Pat & Tanner Guduaskas, Parker Coffin, Jabe Swierkocki, Josiah Amico + two waves of Dane Reynolds

VIDEO BY: SEAN LESH

Tanner Gudauskas Lights Up Rincon

ONE wave with Tanner Gudauskas and the Queen of the Coast 👸🏼
riding a 5'11 x 18 7/8 x 2 3/8 27.9L #ciSPINETEK FEVER 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

CONNER COFFIN Scores Late Season South Swell

Just before heading to Hawaii to compete in the triple crown, Conner Coffin scored a nice little run of south swell not far from his home. With the punchy head high conditions, Conner opted for his go-to-shortboard: 5'11 x 18 1/2 x 2 5/16 FEVER