Day to Day profiles Al Merrick, the founder of Channel Island Surfboards in Santa Barbara, Calif. Merrick has been designing boards for more than three decades, and is considered by many to be the ...

Wielding a balance ruler the size of a small child, Al Merrick scrupulously examined the minutiae in the foam blanks. Like a Moroccan merchant, the Santa Barbara shaping legend inspected the goods ...

Three generations of surfing’s Merrick family: father Al, left, founded Channel Islands Surfboards in 1969; son Britt, middle, is buying back the company from Burton Snowboards; and grandson Isaiah is ...

Recently in beautiful Del Mar, Hobie surfboards along with Ice-Nine Foam Works sponsored the Sacred Craft consumer surfboard expo dedicated to memory of one of surfing’s most well-known and ...

HEIDI MERRICK may not be a globe-trotting socialite from a high-profile family, but she is royalty. Surf royalty. Her father is Al Merrick, the legendary board shaper whose Channel Islands surfboards ...