Welcome back to the show. This is the Shaper Shack, a four-part series of conversations with some of Australia's finest board builders.

Today is the third installment. In March 2019, Vistla was hosting the Sydney

Surf Pro, and they brought shapers in from around the country to showcase their talents in a shaping

bay on the beach. It was my responsibility to capture their stories. And so these are those

conversations. Today's guests are Darcy Day, Michael

Salakis, Alex Cruz, and the father and son team of Phil and Parrish Burn. Before we get to that,

though, today's show is made possible by waterways travel.com. Waterways is a boutique surf travel

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These are great partners of the show, waterwaystravel.com, or you can link over to it from

Surf Splendor Podcast.com, where you can also find everything that we discuss in today's show.

So without further ado, my name is David

Scales for Surf Splendor and I hope that you're enjoying the Shaper Shack. Here is part

three. Enjoy. I'm Darcy Day. I'm from Torquay.

21 going on 22 pretty soon.

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