Rusty Surfboards

Rusty surfboards is one of the leading surfboards companies on the planet, started by Rusty Preisendorfer the brand has a reputation for innovative surfboard design. Rusty's influences included Dick Brewer, Mike Hynson and Skip Frye. While attending the University of California in San Diego, Rusty spent his initial stint shaping for Gordon and Smith surfboards.

He went exploring in Australia in 1974 and this is where he garnered his first serious exposure when Rabbit Bartholomew purchased one of his 8-foot guns. Starting to gain a solid reputation in the business, he launched his own company the same year named Music Surfboards. The late '70s proved a pivotal time, as Rusty shaped for a growing San Diego-based manufacturer called Canyon Surfboards he built a reputable stable of riders including David Barr, Randy and Wes Laine, Peter Townend, Shaun Tomson and Ian Cairns. By the mid-'80s, buoyed by the additions of Dave Parmenter and a radical young Australian named Mark Occhilupo, the Rusty brand was born. In 1985, he left Canyon and started Rusty surfboards.

Ridden by more than half the world's Top 16 surfers at the time, he was the most in-demand shaper anywhere. Rusty was on a par with Channel Islands and Lost surfboards and has held its own ever since those early days. Today the Rusty brand continues to push surfboard design innovation and has recently embarked on a collaboration with the Torq brand to offer its boards in an Epoxy construction, the future looks bright for Rusty surfboards, as always Boardshop is stoked to be part of the process.