Shaper Profile: Harbour Surfboards

Harbour Surfboards is located in Seal Beach, California. They boast a large store filled with beautiful surfboards. Whether you want a high performance longboard or a retro single fin they can build it. They make beautiful surfboards that turn heads everywhere you surf. Rich Harbour shaped his first board in 1959. Through the years Harbour Surfboards has produced over 23,000 boards. And that number is rising every day. Their vintage boards are now being collected by surfing legends around the world. Harbour Surfboards is one of the best known surfboard brands in the world.

Name: Rich Harbour

Brand: HARBOUR SURFBOARDS INC

Started In: 1959

Years Surfing: 50

First Surfboard: One of the first foam boards. It had no label

Surf Wax: Sex Wax

Favorite Local Surf Spot: San Onofre because of parking/beach set up.

Favorite Global Surf Spot: Scorpion Bay Mexico

Personal Preference: FCS or Future Fins: Future

Favorite Fin Set Up: Two plus one

Favorite Thing About Shaping: Being able to make something with MY hands that someone will use for their enjoyment. And carving wood boards for art. This is especially rewarding to take square blocks of balsa, and a log of redwood and saw them to size, chamber them, glue them together, then shape it into a surfboard worthy of hanging on a wall.

Favorite Surfer: Too many to pick one.

The Company: HARBOUR SURFBOARDS INC

Employees: Me

Price Range: $850.00 and up

Time-line to Get a CustomBoard: 4-10 weeks depending on season and blank availability

Shaping Process: Computer Aided Design (CAD) and sent to the Computer Numerical Control for pre shaping. This assures
much more accuracy than by hand, plus makes duplication far easier. Also, current soft wear allows adjustments made simple in every area of the board. Thickness, foil, rocker, outline, rail shape, or anything else can be adjusted in minute to large increments with the click of a mouse.

Board Sizes: Any

Interesting Fact: Celebrating 50 years of making surfboards. Unlike almost every other pre 60’s surfboard maker (and I can glass as well as shape) I never stopped making surfboards.

Boards: Mostly longboards

Where to buy these boards in Orange County, CA: 329 Main St. Seal Beach, CA We are the longest continuously operating shaping address in the world.

Graphics: Waterman’s Guild

Team: Yes