ABOUT

After catching my first wave in Huntington Beach, I was hooked on surfing and wanted a surfboard to call my own. Since I was young and broke, I decided to teach myself how to shape. After a short time, I started shaping surfboards for anyone willing to try out my shapes.

A few years later, in the 70’s, I headed south for San Diego and ended up in Cardiff, where I continued shaping Sauritch Surfboards for some of the locals in the area. It was always a great feeling, watching someone having fun on something I created with my own hands and that feeling still exists today.

As I continued shaping, I was asked to shape for Rip Curl out at the Moonlight Glassing factory, just inland from Encinitas. It was around that period that I discovered a young Rob Machado, who had a natural talent for surfing. I began shaping all of Rob’s surfboards and started shaping a few for his Hawaiin friend, Kalani Robb.

In the mid 80’s, I went to shape for Rusty Preisendorfer, where I began shaping anything from shortboards to island guns for several of the team pros that were on the circuit. After a couple of years, I decided to leave Rusty and focus all of my attention on shaping Sauritch Surfboards, which turned out to be a good move. My career as a shaper was really starting to prosper.

In the 90’s, I started getting board orders from people up in Santa Cruz and the bay area. It was then, that I began shaping surfboards for Josh Mulcoy, one of the most talented and highly underrated surfers I have ever known.

I love hand shaping any type of surfboard and do my best to produce a quality product for my customers, according to their own, personal specifications.

Greg Sauritch

Greg Sauritch hand shapes a surfboard in his shaping room in San Diego, California.