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It is not very often that shapers make their way up to Maine.  Let’s be honest, unless you are coming to enjoy the fruits of our state, you aren’t usually “passing through” Maine ~ frankly we are fine with that…

However, we had the pleasure of meeting up with Steven Mast of Mast Surfboards as he stumbled
upon the shop one day.

After getting to know Steven a little and showing him around the shop and gallery, he amazed us with his shapes and thought behind each detail.  We are planning on working more with Steven all through 2011, but for now here is a bit about him and one of his boards still for sale.

A little about Steven, in his own words ~

“Having grown in and around water (my mother insisted we could swim before we could walk), and being an adrenaline junkie, it was only natural that I fall in love with surfing at my very first exposure, namely, Wild World of Sports’ Pipeline Masters, broadcast in the early seventies. One thing led to another, I met my beautiful wife in 1980, I started a career in tattooing in 1989 and enjoy both to this day. After years of mind surfing and skateboarding competitively in the Midwest I fulfilled a lifetime dream by moving to San Diego in 1997 and started surfing soon after.

I began shaping in 2002 out of a desire for boards that were not readily available, i.e. unusual. I believe my years of tattooing were invaluable training for learning to adapt to the process of shaping. Over the past eight years I have been lucky enough to develop a few consistent models. Mostly boards I wanted for myself. All are a result of surfing daily in San Diego conditions, which are somewhat soft, day in day out. The result are shapes with a bit more planing surface and a bit less rocker than you would find in boards built for heavier hollower surf.”

We are very excited to see what Steven has in store for us in 2011 ~ Stay tuned for more from Mast in the near future.