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The Women Keeping the Art of Surfboard Making Alive

February 20, 2019, 9:51 am
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Even has the surfboard industry moves towards prefabricated machine-cut mass production, hand shaping surfboards keeps the industry tied to its roots. Masters at their craft, these four women—Ashley Lloyd Thompson,Valerie Duprat, Cher Pendarvis, and Dewi Malopsy—represent a small handful of female board builders but a wide range of skill. Their boards—ranging in style from the classic San Diego fish to long nose riders and big wave guns—are ridden under the feet of male and female surfers alike. Respecting a tradition while breaking conventional gender rules, these are the women creating some of the most unique boards on the water. Valerie Duprat sands in her shop.
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Ashley Lloyd Thompson stands with one of her finished boards. Growing up on California waves, Ashley wanted to balance her respect for traditional longboard surfing and her commitment to a healthy environment. All Ashley Lloyd Thompson Surfboards are ECOboards—they’re all Green Certified by the Sustainable Surf Organization—using less toxic materials and bio-based epoxy resins.
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Ashley Lloyd Thompson files the nose of board in her factory. Thompson was first introduced to shaping in 2002. Her talent was quickly recognized in the industry, and in 2005, she signed on as a rider and shaper for Bing Surfboards designing her own models, and later started her own business out of Santa Cruz, CA. Thompson grew up around art and music, which comes through in her creative process—oftentimes she brings clients’ playlists into the bay to listen to as she shapes their boards to get a better sense of them. In the early years of her career, Thompson was one of the only female shapers running a business. While she’s still among the few, she’s currently training a female apprentice to help shift the numbers.
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Valerie Duprat, proprietor of Mere Made Surfboards, stands in her Encinitas CA backyard shaping bay. A biotech scientist who sequences DNA by day, Duprat began shaping boards as a creative outlet in 2011. She created boards for family, then friends, then friends of friends, and now for anyone looking for a special addition to their quiver. Being both a talented shaper and one of the few females has helped open some doors in the most prestigious shaping rooms of master board builders in France, California, Oahu, and Maui.
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“A board built with the traditional craftsmanship, a soulful object of stoke.” Valerie Duprat traces a template for a double-winger fish board.
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Malopsy meticulously spreads colored resin in her shop. If you think finding a female shaper is hard, try finding a female glasser. Dewi Malopsy is one of those rare finds. Studying under old-school shaper Jeff Alexander, she began glassing surfboards in the North Shore of Hawaii after moving from Indonesia. Now, 20 years later, she glasses in her own shop, Tiger G Glassing in San Diego, California.
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At 13, Cher Pendarvis caught her first wave on a wooden paddle board she politely borrowed from a lifeguard. Today, fifty-some years later, she is a revered pioneer of women’s surfing. Cher and her husband Steve are the team behind Pendo and Pendoflex Surfboards in San Diego, California. A triple threat in the studio as a shaper, artist, and glasser, Cher didn’t set out to push boundaries. Her love and skill for surfing were so profound that the boundaries changed around her. She became the first female team rider and shaper for Channin Surfboards, the first female staff member for Surfing Magazine, as an Art Associate. Pendarvis continues to contribute to various outlets, has published several books, and is an award winning artist. She works in her studio painting a recently shaped board with colors inspired by nature. “Every moment is precious. I am grateful for the life we live with the ocean and the work we're blessed to do. It is pure joy to make boards by hand to be ridden on the waves", she says.
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