From the Road – C-Street, CI, Grain & Grins

The big news for us at Grain Surfboards that’s been tough to keep under wraps: we’re building Channel Islands Biscuits designed by Al Merrick and Rob Machado. The license to make these great boards was worked out on our last trip west, and it’s been painful to keep quiet about it for months while we built the first three. But they came out great and were christened at Ventura’s C-street while Sacred Craft was thrumming at the Fairgrounds across the street. The CI demo team handed out lots of great CI designs, and had the Grain Biscuits out pretty much all the time.

Ronnie and Shannon handling the CI demo

Waves were middling most of Saturday, and Sunday looked like longboards only, but even in these conditions, most people loved the feel of this terrific design rendered in wood for the first time ever. I got a chance to sneak out for a couple hours while Mike wasn’t looking and had my first crack at one of the Biscuits. I was pretty astounded at how easy it was to catch waves on it – I was making waves that I normally would only paddle for with a longboard, and could get them when I was miles from the critical spot.

We’re seeing that these wood Biscuits are on the road for demos on both coasts, so stay in touch with the Channel Islands demo tours and subscribe to our mailing list to find out where you can try one. You’ll be smiling just like all these guys were.

Kyle Sheer: “Two longest waves of my life!” Gotta lotta life left to go, Kyle!

Jason: This happy camper came back twice!