Santa Barbara locals may remember us as Paddle Sports of Santa Barbara, selling kayaks and gear, renting kayaks, and guiding trips on the islands. In 2010 the current owner Mark Hyatt relinquished ownership to three of his employees, Garrett Kababik, Fraser Kersey, and Johnny Dresser (all island guides at the time), who collectively established Channel Islands Outfitters. Upon realizing that a revised and modern plan needed to be realized to carry Paddle Sports into the new economy, the three island guides got to work brainstorming.

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• 92 DEGREE, 12’ DEEP, IN-DOOR POOL.
• WE GUARANTEE YOU’LL LIKE IT. You will enroll in the most comprehensive and FUN training program available.
• PERFECT SAFETY RECORD. We are proud of our perfect safety record. During the past 35 years, over 7,000 students and 90,000 dives.
• EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE Our instructor’s are among the best in the world. Trained by Curt Wiessner, SSI Instructor Certifier and former NAUI Instructor trainer.
• PATIENCE. Our instructor’s will work with you and help you out every step of the way.
• CONTINUED SUPPORT. Our Travel Center and Specialty Courses are designed to keep you diving after you get certified.

Dave Johnson is one of the lucky ones, who gets to do what he loves and get paid for it. The UCSB graduate’s chosen profession is operating Progressive Surfboards, a big wave’s break from Hollister and South Fairview, his business since 1975.

Since then, he’s been fortunate to have chased beach breaks and point breaks all over the Good Land, in between reincarnations of the popular retail and custom surfboard shop.

Cape Cod native Jason Feist was a product of the ’80’s surf resurgence. He got his 1st board at age 10 and learned to surf alongside the Sullivan and Zavorskas Brothers, Matt Richards, Brendan McCray, Steve Esterbrook, Seb Frawley, Tripp Taylor and many more. After graduating Nauset High School in 1991 he moved to California and began shaping in 1997. Fast forward to the present. Now he has a shop and shaping room in downtown Santa Barbara and if you paddle out at any of the point breaks in the Santa Barbara area, you’ll see that most of the best surfers in the water are riding J7s.

Clyde Beatty Jr. is known for his surfing, shaping and his glassing, in fact Clyde is considered to one o f the first to use epoxy resins on surfboards. When it came to glassing Clyde Beatty was on the creative edge. Clyde first learned how to surf in 1964 at California Street in Ventura. He was in the fifth grade at the time. His first surfboard was a Duke Kahanamoku pop-out made in Ventura, his parents bought it for him. While going to University High School in Pacific Palisades during the latter part of the 60’s Clyde was a team rider for the Hobie / Blue Cheer surf shop in Santa Monica. Mike Perry was the shaper at Blue Cheer and had an influence in Clyde’s shaping. Clyde learned by watching Mike shape a lot of boards including the ones he rode for Blue Cheer. The Blue Cheer factory is where Clyde learned to shape and glass. Being around Mike Perry, and watching glassers like Wayne Miyata gloss and pin line and Bob Petty laminating. Bob was the man who could power when it came to laminating. Clyde’s first board that he shaped was also air brushed by him, using a spray enamel can. While learning the ropes in board manufacturing, Clyde was a 4A surfer the equivalent of an ASP pro.

Since 1969, Channel Islands Surfboards has been dedicated to performance and quality through hard work, innovation, and originality. Over the last 43 years, Channel Islands has grown from a local grass-roots operation to a cutting edge organization, catering to the best surfers in the world. It started with hard-core surfing and quality in mind and these guidelines have brought us through four decades of constant change in the surf industry. Channel Islands will shape the new millennium with innovative design and quality as our main focus.

“The driving force behind Channel Islands Surfboards is the demand on design created by the world’s greatest surfers, allowing for the highest performance surfing possible. To provide the most dedicated surfers with the most advanced, performance designs is my passion” – Al Merrick, Designer/Shaper

CI is a privately held organization focused on rider-driven product and manufacturing the best possible equipment available. Located in a state-of-the-art facility just blocks from Rincon Del Mar, the CI HQ represents a foundation for developing, testing, and building boards while providing jobs in Santa Barbara for many years to come.

The Blue Water Hunter is the premier store in the world solely devoted to the art and tradition of freediving and spearfishing. Bringing together the finest equipment and information for all of your diving needs.

BlueLine is located in beautiful Santa Barbara California and still owned and operated by Jim Brewer. Our large store is always full with a wide variety of SUP boards and paddles. Any product that is sold in BlueLine comes from respected SUP industry manufactures. We specialize in high end boards and also carry quality price point boards from major brands.