OUTPOST OPEN · LINEKER 'TIL 6PM Coffee window: 7am — 11am
Today's surf · Linda Mar 3-4ft · clean · WSW 8s Water 53°F
EST. 2011 · PACIFICA, CA · HWY ONE · MILE 19 ★ AS SEEN IN — SURFER'S JOURNAL · ISSUE 33.4

Sea, salt & sunlight

A small surf company on the California coast. Hand-shaped boards, salt-rinsed apparel, and a coffee window at the outpost on Highway One. We've been doing this since 2011, mostly the same way.

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Linda Mar today · Nov 13
Swell
3-4ft
Period
8s
Water
53°F
01 — The board shop

Four boards we keep making. that's it.

Every board is hand-shaped by our shaper Mateo in the back room of the outpost. Polyurethane core, hand-laid glass, hand-finished sanding. No factories, no overseas blanks, no rush. Twelve to sixteen weeks for a custom; what's on the rack ships in 48 hours.

★ NEW SHAPE ♡
A white hand-shaped longboard resting on cool spring grass next to a teal companion board
— Longboard · All-rounder

The Driftwood

9'2"length 22.5"width 5+1fins
$1,180
BESTSELLER ♡
A row of upright surfboards racked in a shop, shortboards in the foreground
— Shortboard · Pointbreak

The Lineker

6'2"length 19.25"width 3-finthruster
$920
CUSTOM ONLY ♡
A red fish-shaped surfboard standing on wet sand against a dark sea-rock backdrop
— Fish · Small-day machine

The Goldfish

5'8"length 20.5"width quadfin set
$1,040
EVERY KID NEEDS ONE ♡
A teal mid-length surfboard resting on a beach plinth with the Pacific Ocean behind
— Mid-length · Cruiser

The Manzanita

7'6"length 21.5"width 2+1fins
$1,060
~ shaped on Hwy 1 ~
— THE BACK ROOM · BOARD #1,427 IN PROGRESS
02 — The shaper

Mateo shapes every board.
all of them.

Mateo Carrillo has been shaping surfboards for twenty-seven years, first in Encinitas under Bill Stewart, then for Hayden Shapes, then on his own from a one-car garage in Daly City, and finally — since 2014 — in our back room on Highway One. He shapes about three hundred boards a year.

That means every board you order from us is shaped by the same person, on the same blank, with the same hand-tools, in a room with the same Sticky Fingers tape Mateo has been playing while he works since roughly 1998.

"Boards have weight when they're made by hand. You can't feel it on the rack — you can only feel it in the water." — Mateo, after board number twelve hundred
— Boards shaped
1,427+
— Per board
11hrs
— Years at it
27yrs
03 — Apparel & gear

Shorts, tees, and salt-tested everything.

All apparel is made in two factories — one in Ventura, one in Tijuana. Tested by us on actual water. Boardshorts hold up for at least three winters or we replace them. That's our deal.

— Outerwear · 14 styles

Hoodies
& coats

From $84 · made in Ventura
— Water · 8 cuts

Board
shorts

From $74 · 4-way stretch
— Cold water · 6 styles

Wet
suits

From $385 · Yulex natural rubber
04 — The outpost

A small shop on Highway One. come by.

Our outpost sits on a curve of Highway One, just south of Linda Mar, in a one-story 1960s building that used to be a bait shop. Inside is the showroom: about thirty boards on the rack, the apparel wall, and a coffee window that pours from 7am to 11am every morning.

The back room is the shaping bay where Mateo works. If he's not in the bay, he's probably out the water — and if you wave at the back door, he'll usually come around to talk boards.

We've never been on Google Maps' first page of "surf shops near me" and we are okay with that.

— Outpost hours

  • MondayClosed
  • Tuesday — Friday10am — 6pm
  • Saturday — Sunday8am — 7pm
  • Coffee windowDaily 7am — 11am
— SAN MATEO COUNTY · PACIFIC OCEAN
★ Outpost to Half Moon Bay →
— 19 mi south of SF 1873 Cabrillo Hwy Pacifica, CA · 94044
05 — From the journal

What we've been writing about lately.

A small journal we run out of the outpost — surf reports, gear reviews, conservation notes from the local Surfrider chapter, and the occasional recipe from the coffee window. Updated every couple of weeks.

— Field notes
— Nov 8 · by Mateo

Why we don't use EPS blanks

A thousand words on the difference between PU and EPS construction — and why, even though the EPS guys are right about weight and environment, our boards still come off the rack as polyurethane.

Read on →
— Surf report
— Nov 11 · by the shop

Pacifica in November

Linda Mar has had a quietly excellent stretch — eight days of clean, consistent, head-high swell, with offshores most mornings until 9 or 10am. Our log of what we caught and what we missed.

Read on →
— Conservation
— Oct 28 · by Surfrider SF

Beach cleanup recap

218 volunteers, 2,400 lbs of trash, two recovered shopping carts, and one extremely confused harbor seal. Notes from the autumn cleanup, organized with our local Surfrider chapter.

Read on →
— The Drift · weekly

A surf-letter
worth opening.

A short note from the shop every Friday morning — what's on the rack, what the swell looks like for the weekend, what Mateo has just finished shaping, and a recipe from the coffee window if it's any good.

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No spam, no list-sharing, one unsubscribe link on every issue. We send one Friday a week — that's it.