For 2008 Rick's Surfboard Selection as in the Past will feature the Best Shapes from around the World for the Surf Conditions of Long Island. We have decided to cut the number of Shapers we stock but to include in our Quiver a Wider Selection of Shapes available from each Shaper. Our Selection will include Surfboards designed by Al Merrick's Channel Islands, Byrne Designed by Michael Baron & Phil Byrne, shaped by Michael Baron & The East Coast's #1 Surfboard, WRV, . We are also always on the lookout for the next innovation coming down the road. In 2006 we added DHD Surfboards including the Mick Fanning Models.

In 2008, we will be adding a couple other labels but will announce those as they arrive. We will be expanding our selection of Tuflite Models by Surftech.

As in years past we will be carrying Spoiler, Challenger, Canyon, Surfers Alliance, Natural Progression & Surfboards Australia Surfboards which are great surfboards for beginners as well as experts at a great price. These surfboards range from 5'6" to 9'6" & are a great way for a beginner surfer after mastering a softboard to move up to a standard surfboard. They are also great for the experienced shortboarder to add a funboard or longboard to their quiver without spending a lot of money, with prices starting at $295.00.

Just in the Shop Challenger, & Canyon Surfboards from 5'10" to 6'6" & they start at an incredible price of $295.00. Boards feature a 6X6X6 Glass job & removable fins system similar to RedX but will accommodate FCS fins. Price includes fins !

Lastly we carry surfboards designed, shaped, glassed, sanded & finished by professionals. These professionals have many years of experience in surfboard design & building, they employ professional surfers to test out their designs & are constantly enhancing their designs to bring you the best possible designs. They build their boards in state of the art factories which insure that you will be getting the best surfboard at the same time protecting our environment from the harmful effects which is the byproduct of surfboard building. Surfboard building is a dirty business with lots of toxic vapors & dust which can hurt the people building the boards & the our environment. The professionals we represent build their surfboards in factories which meet or exceed the environmental standards of the areas they reside in.

Don't be fooled into buying a board from some guy who builds them in his garage or a shed behind his house. Their harmful vapors are just blown into our air & their waste in thrown in the trash along with the household garbage to be buried in some landfill which will end up harming our water supply & eventually end up in the ocean.

You may think that you are saving a couple dollars but you're just getting an inferior board built by someone with little experience & worst of all has no concern for our environment. Surfers are supposed to care about our environment, we depend on clean air & water to participate in our love of riding waves. Look to the professionals to supply you with the best surfboard with an eye on the bigger picture, protecting the environment.