Surftech

Randy French founded SURFTECH in 1989, his background as a surfboard shaper and a pioneer in the windsurf industry drove him to experiment with different materials in an effort to make his boards lighter and stronger.

Randy’s involvement with sailboards resulted in major technological breakthroughs in composite board construction. In turn his company, Seatrend, soon became a mass production operation, producing hundreds of identical sailboard models and shipping them to windsurf shops around the world.

At the end of the ‘80s, the windsurf market was fading and all but went away in the early to mid ‘90s. So in 1989, Randy took what he had learned designing sailboards and applied it to his first love, surfboards.

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