Channel Islands Surfboards

Italo Ferreira Tests The 2022 Winning Board | Stab in the Dark

In Stab in the Dark 2022, Jack Robinson selected the Channel Islands CI Pro as his winning board.

This year, Channel Islands' head shaper Britt Merrick has designed a slightly updated version of the CI Pro for Italo Ferreira to test — the CI 2.Pro, which offers a similar outline but slightly less rocker.

Will Italo love it, or kick it to the bin? Watch the full episode 2 of Stab in the Dark here to find out:
https://stabmag.com/premium/stab-in-the-dark-with-italo-ferreira-episode-2/

John Mel's European Vacation - CI PRO

Santa Cruz's John Mel is known for charging big waves with his father Peter at Mavericks. He's equally as good in the small stuff as seen here on his CI Pro while chasing WSL point in Europe. Filmed by @clubmedsucks.

Peter Mel at the Eddie Aikau Invitational 2022/23

Peter Mel feeling honored to be in the Eddie Aikau Invitational’s opening ceremony.

He’s also stoked about the custom Mavs Gun Britt shaped him with a stunning color lamination by Golden State Glassing. Peter will ride this 10’ beauty the day the Eddie gets called this winter!

video via Mike Ito.

Mav's Gun here: https://cisurfboards.com/products/mavs-gun

Cole McCaffray Scores Late Season Indo

Encinitas grom Cole McCaffray is growing up fast and surfing better than ever! Watch him thread barrels and rip turns on his CI Pros and Happy Travelers during a recent late season run through Indonesia.

Filmed and Edited by Stephen Rawding

Britt and CI Team Tour Japan

Over the past several decades, Channel Islands Surfboards and the Merrick family have held close ties with Japan and its passionate surf community. In short, we love Japan! The people, the food, the vibes are all so great. With the debut of our new CI Pro shortboard model, we wanted to share our stoke for this board with Japan via a little CI Pro movie screening tour. We rallied Britt and some of the CI crew in California (Parker, Tanner, and Devon) to head over with him, where they linked up with CI Japan team riders like Mar, Kaito and Hide along the way.

This video by Alex Kilauano captures the many flavorful moments from the adventure, including a dream session at the Surf Stadium wave pool with special guest Tom Carroll.

You can follow our CI Japan instagram feed here: https://www.instagram.com/cisurfboards_japan/

You can learn more about CI PRO here: https://cisurfboards.com/products/ci-pro

FishBeardin’ with Parker Coffin

This spicy little number is still his go-to design when feeling the twin fin vibes: 5'5" x 18 3/4" x 2 3/8" #ciFishBeard

filmed by Jeremy Searle

Learn more about the FishBeard, including stock dimensions and dealers here: https://cisurfboards.com/products/fishbeard

IMMERSION: Joao Chianca Tahiti Edit

The saga of João Chianca (aka "Chumbinho") has to be regarded as one of this year’s biggest storylines in professional competition surfing.

A young, promising rookie qualifies for the CT, deals with what many critics have called "a less-than-fair seeding system," puts on some of the season’s best heats in a range of conditions, and quickly vanishes from tour due to the World Surf League's new mid-year cut.

Chumbinho’s misfortune left many of us wishing we could have seen him surf a CT venue where he was sure to shine — Tahiti. Thanks to this edit "Immersion," our wish is granted!

He is riding CI Pro and Happy Traveler.

https://cisurfboards.com/products/ci-pro
https://cisurfboards.com/products/happy-traveler-1

Film by Gui Sodre

Free Scrubber Excess Baggage Part 4 | Tom Curren on #TheSearch | Rip Curl

The mythic dry hair surf. Like walking on water. Tune in to the latest part TC’s Free Scrubber - Gogglebox edition. 📺

What's your reaction? Explain in the comments.

📹 Andy Potts, Nick Pollet, Vaughan Blakey & CI Surfboards.

#TheSearch #TomCurren #RipCurl #CISurfboards

FREESCRUBBER LOST REELS CHAPTER 3

Welcome to Part 3 of “Free Scrubber: Excess Baggage” starring Tom Curren. Follow along here every Tuesday for another reel of unseen moments captured during the making of Free Scrubber by Rip Curl. You won’t want to miss these!

In Part 3, you’ll see Tom hanging with the local pups and kittens, and on his CI Free Scrubber twin-fin model magically flying across sand-bottom points.

📹 @apotts @nickpollet @vaughandeadly @buggscollection @puntaconejoresort @curfuffle

#ciSurfboards #ciFreeScrubber #BrittMerrick #AlMerrick #TomCurren #twinfin

See more on the Free Scrubber board here: https://cisurfboards.com/products/free-scrubber-1

Mikey February — 7'1" Tri Plane Hull Single (Midlength)

Watch Mikey February enjoy the glide of our new Tri Plane Hull Single. This fun, user-friendly midlength incorporates a fresh take on a Al Merrick’s Tri Plane Hull bottom design he refined and built during the ’70s and ’80s—a Greenough inspired planning hull that generates tremendous “lift” for added speed and ease of control.

Working with surfer Devon Howard once again (see CI Mid), we set out to build a better egg-style, single-fin—a genre of surfboard that can often look cool and groovy but tend to ride slow and sticky, sometimes lacking pizazz or drive through the turns. By incorporating a Tri Plane Hull bottom with a Al’s classic egg outline, and combined with our modern style rail and rocker profiles, we landed on a rather spicy midlength design that has a surprising amount of trim speed and drive through its turn in small surf—making this a reliable long-railed performer in conditions ranging from subpar to above average.

The Tri Plane Hull Single comes with beautiful color lamination options that are sealed with a matte finish gloss coat and outfitted with a minimalistic logo treatment which pays homage to some of Al’s early surfboard creations. Look for a Tri Plane Hull Single at your local CI dealer, or start building your custom today here:
https://cisurfboards.com/products/tph-single-fin-1

To compliment this beautiful midlength, Devon also worked on a custom built single-fin that is available in three sizes: 8”, 8.5” and 9”. The “CI Single Fin” has a sleek, rather upright template, which helps the board pivot and turn on dime. And its conservative rake profile provides a nice flow on down the line point breaks. Our general sizing guideline goes as follows: 8” for 6’7” & under; 8.5” for 6’8” to 7’5”; 9” 7’6 & over. The CI Single-Fin can be found at your local surf shop or here: https://cisurfboards.com/products/ci-single-fin

Mikey is riding a 7'1 stock model with 21 3/8" width and 2 13/16" thick. For reference Mikey is 6'3 and 160 lbs. (Kilos 72.7).

See film’s credits for Stock Dimensions and Fin recommendations.

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