Willer SurfCraft

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GTA, Ontario, Canada
Born out of necessity. Surfboards designed by fresh water surfers, for fresh water surfers and beyond. Specializing in surfcraft taylored specifically for you and the unique conditions you surf, from the great lakes, to river waves, to firing point breaks in far-flung exotic locals. 100% Custom. 100% Hand-made. This is not a job for me, but purely the pursuit of a passion to bring science, art, and engineering together to build the best surfcraft I can. Dave Willer, PhD

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Lakesurfing Hits the BigTime



Freshwater Lakesurfing must be bigger than I thought.   We are now LEGIT.   I just flipped through the new LandsEnd Catalog with my kids, only to find all of their boys rashguards and t-shirts with Lakesurfing graphics!  If only they had adult sizes.    I guess the graphic design team at LandsEnd rides on freshwater planks.  Get you kids some new duds.......

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Land of the Rising Sun

Well wishes to all of our friends in Japan and other areas around the world affected by the Tsunami (March 10-11, 2011).   Pray everyone is safe and hope for a speedy recovery.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

LoxBox in the House!!


Willer Surfcraft is proud to announce we are now offering LoxBox fin systems as a standard option for our boards.   The boxes are available in either white or black.   Now you can choose from four different fin systems (Futures, FCS, LoxBox and Glass-on).  LoxBox provides some really fantastic features, most importantly is a full 1/2" of fore-aft adjustability for fine-tuning in your optimal fin position.  This is particularly important on quad fin set-ups that many of us are running.  Check out Rainbow Fin Co., for a wide selection of fins compatible with LoxBox.  I will be posting a catalog of available LoxBox fins from Rainbow in the coming days.

Check em out
http://www.lokboxfins.com/
http://www.rainbowfins.com/ 

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Shapers: Geneology of the last century

Interesting family tree of surfboard shapers from the January 2006 issue of Surfing.  I found this in the deep bowels of my computer.  Take it with a grain of salt, but it includes 720 shapers over the last 100 years.  It sparked some considerable controversy at the time of publishing. 

You won't be able to read it via this site, so hop on over to the PDF download complements of Essential Surfing.
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9JntwjkZOT_NGU0N2NlOTctYmFkYy00MDVjLWEyNTItODkzYjRjYzJkZjAw&hl=en