Blue Water hand-shapers are World-Renowned & Legendary longboard shaper Mike Minchinton. Mike is a local legend and a H.B local who has over 45 years of experience building surfboards from scratch. Mike’s specialty is longboards both classic and high-performance boards as well as being considered the best wood worker in the industry. If you want a balsa surfboard for your house or collection, you have to get a Mike Minchinton hand shaped bluewater surfboard. Minchinton has also been known to bust out a few crazy retro shape. Let us know what you want and we can have it done for you..

Kevin Wear is our shortboard and high-perfoarmance longboard shaper. Kevin has been shaping for over 15 years for such companies as Robert August, Wind N Sea, J.C. Jon Carper of Hawaii, Poi-Dog, Sakal, and Trifecta He is now one of Blue Water’s featured shapers. Kevin is by far one of the hottest shapers in the so-cal region. Get your order in while you can and beat the summer rush!

Blue Water is dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality hand made surfboards with materials that are recyclable and far less damaging to the environment than traditional polyester surfboards.

Wyland and Blue Water surfboards are hand crafted by legendary shaper Mike Minchinton and up and comer Kevin Wear of Huntington Beach.