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Sunset Point local Greg Griffin of Griffin Surfboards Hawaii has been called the “guru of multiple fin designs”. Greg Griffin was born in Palo Alto, California and began shaping in 1968 and learned the art from Santa Cruz shaper Doug Haut. He was influenced by Haut, Mike Croteau, and Dick Brewer and later started shaping for Town & Country Surfboards Hawaii during the 1980’s.
Griffin has shaped surfboards for some of Hawaii’s top professional surfers including former World Champions Sunny Garcia, Dino Miranda, Rusty Keaulana, and Martin Potter. Other Griffin team riders include Kaipo Jaquias, Dane Kealoha, Max Medeiros, Pocho Ahina, Johnny Boy Gomes, Zane Aikau, Joey Valentin, Dave Cantrell, and Shawn Monroe. Greg Griffin’s shaping philosophy is to make surfboards as user friendly as possible and he plans on utilizing new materials and after market products to stay at the forefront of custom shaping. 3 Comments »By participating in online discussions you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to the TERMS OF SERVICE. Any violations of these terms may result in account suspension or deactivation. Please keep your comments civil and in good taste. To report a comment, email info@surfboardshack.comBonnie Besecker, on July 24, 2009 @ 11:48 am |I recently acquired a surfboard of yours. It looks as if the serial number may be 13.34432. It has Local Motion hawaii and a palm tree on it. I was wondering if you could give me some idea as to its age. Thanks, Rachel Graff, on September 16, 2009 @ 2:21 pm |I have a Local Motion Hawaii Surfboard which is signed and numbered. It is an older board signed Griffin and the number on the board is 38452. Can you give me any information on this board,how old it is, and how much it would be worth? Thank you for your help. Leave a comment |
Mike, on November 17, 2007 @ 9:48 pm |
Here is areview by Bob Tanner who runs the ASR board build off each year. He bought this board. I rode the below board 4 times in the last two weeks (once with the 5-fin setup and three times as a quad) and I have to tell you guys that if I hadn’t just gotten a new board, and didn’t have one more on the way, I would be asking Greg if I could buy it ‘as is’, right now! First time I rode it was during our little burst of NW about a week and a half ago, so I rode it with 5 fins in. Spot I surfed wasn’t as big as some that day – it was about a foot or two overhead on the sets, clean, steep, with not much room to turn – stand up, drop, run, or pull in. 1st few waves I catch are a little overhead, backside, steep faces. The board held on every single drop, where I KNOW both my quad and twin keel fishes would have spun out or pearled. LOTS of drive, and holding power that first day – stoked. I’ve ridden it 3 more times since then (as a quad), in more ‘typical’, ‘everyday’ conditions here in SD – waist to head high, clean to semi-clean windswell, and I felt like the board made an average guy like me surf alot better than normal. INSTANT acceleration, and the thinned out rails make it very easy to turn. Board seems to have that perfect combo of being loose, yet holding thru turns (if that makes sense). Easy to paddle and catch waves, too, even for a fat-ass like me. This board gets two thumbs up from Tanner Oh yeah, it’s 20 1/2? wide and 2 5/8? thick ——————– “I’ll sing a song for fallen angels – This one goes to all the unsung heroes” – Mike