Welcome back to Surf Splendor. Today's episode is with

Surfboard designer, shaper, builder, Malcolm Campbell.

Campbell was born in 195 and his brother Duncan born in 1955.

There were mere teenagers when their father encouraged them to build their own surfboard.

In 1970, he also suggested that they add a couple of side fins to the conventional single fins everyone was riding at the time and over the next year they developed what would become known as the bonzer

It made its public debut in 1972 and featured a double concave bottom and had two

long base low profile keel fins near the rails.

Malcolm was quoted at the time as saying,

After one wave, I knew we were on to something.

And an hour later, I knew the single fin was obsolete as a high performance vehicle.

End quote.

The Bonzer has had spikes of popularity in those first few years, thanks to advocates

like Peter Townan and also Bing Surfboards for manufacturing them at a large scale,

but they have never seen such widespread acceptance and adaptation to a range of designs as they

have in the past five years.

Everyone from Mick Fanning to Taylor Knox to Michael February and Dane Reynolds have been writing them and raving about them.

Channel Islands has a collaboration board with Malcolm.

We will discuss the design in detail and why it's so applicable on everything from shortboards to eggs to longboards

to guns. But before we do, I want to introduce a new partner to our podcast, Rain, Eyewear, and

sunglasses. Much like Malcolm and Duncan Campbell, Rain was founded by brothers and surf industry

mainstays Justin and Jeremy

Hyatt. Jeremy was a pro surfer out of San Diego from my youth that I followed in the magazines.

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