2008 Sacred Craft Consumer Surfboard Expo

SACRED CRAFT - The Consumer Surfboard Expo is bringing together all of us who love surfboards --and all things surfboard-- under one roof for a weekend long surfboard extravaganza in Del Mar. A large exposition hall at the Del Mar Fairgrounds filled with the objects of our desire! If it has to do with the SURFBOARD it will be at SACRED CRAFT - The Consumer Surfboard Expo.
WHY?
Because it dawned on us that the surfboard makers needed a way to market their wares, and the surfer needed a place they could go to talk surfboard design with the people that make them, rather than some 17-year-old shop rat that doesn't know...shoestrings. Most of you remember a time when you could go into a surfshop and talk to a shaper. They're still out there, thank God, but sadly they are a dying breed.
The year: 1977. The surfshop was Tony Staples' Progressive Design on Hwy 101 in Solana Beach next to Bob's Solana Barber shop and the old Solana pharmacy (now an upscale furniture store). Tony would be there everyday, flipping through mags or jawing it up with the local groms as they drooled over a beak nose winged pin. There was a great vibe in that shop. It was core. It is our hope that you will think of the SACRED CRAFT Consumer Surfboard Expo in the same light that we remember the old Tony Staples' shop. Core. Dependable. Real. A place to drool.