Hybrid (Soft top/Hard bottom) Board

Hybrid (Soft top/Hard bottom) Board

About Us

"HELM Supplies is about staying true to ourselves, feeling lucky to call the ocean our playground, and building confidence in our journey alongside a community of vibrant individuals. We strive to make a positive impact by thoughtfully crafting items to help navigate the waves that come our way, both in and out of the water."  #enjoythejourney #beatthehelm
Founded by two friends, based out of Los Angeles, California.

 

    HELM Surfboards

    NO WAX, NO MESS, NO WORRIES.
    Designed by HELM Supplies, our surfboards are created by master shaper, board-building veteran, and former professional surfer Clyde Beatty Jr with his team of experts.  First, we build a real glassed surfboard using high-quality materials: EPS foam blank with wood stringer, and vacuum bagged fiberglass/epoxy resin lamination, providing optimal flex, weight, and characteristics of a modern board.  We've taken an extra step by wrapping the entire deck + rails with a soft and flexible rubber-like traction.  
    ***This hybrid construction adds many benefits, wax-free traction keeps your board clean, adds durability to dings/cracks, protection to the rider (& others) from impact, while still performing as well as any surfboard in the market, if not better.  Created with the intent to have maximum fun in any condition, an all-purpose, carefree board built to enjoy the journey.

        HELM Surfboards Shaper: Clyde Beatty Jr.

        Clyde Beatty Jr. is known for his surfing, shaping and glassing.  He is the creator of the “Rocket Fish” surfboard design recognized to be the first performance fish of his time that many shapers have referenced to create their own version of the modern-day performance fish.  On the glassing side Clyde was an epoxy pioneer, and helped develop the first-ever produced light-stabilized epoxy resins.  Clyde has had the honor and pleasure to work with many of the greatest board builders and surfers to ever grace our planet.  He thanks them all, and sends his respect and love to all of them.

        While going to University High School in Los Angeles during the latter part of the 60’s Clyde was a team rider for the Hobie / Blue Cheer surf shop in Santa Monica.  Here began his journey of shaping and glassing, and “studied the work of master shaper Mike Perry, laminator Bob Perry, and other craftsmen at the Blue Cheer factory.” (Gillogy, Brian “Song of the Sinosaurus” The Surfer’s Journal, V.31.1, p 100) While learning the ropes in board manufacturing, Clyde was also a 4A surfer the equivalent of an ASP pro.  
        Clyde went on to have his own board-building factory, initially in Huntington Beach, and later with shaper Guy Okazaki in Santa Monica, all the while continuing to compete in surf contests riding his own boards to perfect his craft.  In the summer of 1984, he journeyed across the ocean to compete in the Newquay Pro-Am Surf Classic in Cornwall, England, and with him his epoxy Rocket Fish.  Through a series of coincidences, Clyde developed an interest for his epoxy surfboards from locals who saw him riding his Rocket fish.  In order to shape boards, he worked with a British plastics company, SP Systems and developed a higher quality light-stabilized epoxy resin.  Clyde brought this epoxy resin back home to his new factory in Santa Barbara and started to gain interest stateside.  “One interested party was Andy Irons. In 2005, Huntington Beach’s Casey McCrystal shaped Iron’s first epoxy boards and Beatty glassed them,” (Gillogy, p 100). Clyde continues his journey to this day, constantly progressing his shaping and exploring new methods of surfboard construction.

        Works Cited: Gillogy, Brian “Song of the Sinosaurus” The Surfer’s Journal, V.31.1, p 100.

        Email: info@helmsupplies.com

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