Del Mar, Ca. - Anticipation is running high for the 3rd Annual Sacred Craft Consumer Surf Expo. Hundreds of the world's greatest shapers and surfboard designers will converge at the cultural melting point that is the Sacred Craft Surf Expo on October 10th & 11th.

Each and every year the Sacred Craft Expo features a tribute to a master surfboard craftsman in the form of a shape-off competition. This year five shapers: Pat Rawson, Gary Linden, Dennis Murphy, Ricky Carroll, and Reno Abellira (all legends in their own right), will replicate a classic Dick Brewer design. The Brewer design chosen epitomizes the radical changes that took place during the shortboard revolution and the masterwork of the man many consider the most influential shaper ever -- Richard Brewer.

 
SACRED CRAFT SURF EXPO SCHEDULE SATURDAY OCTOBER 10
 
7am-10am - TransWorld BUSINESS Magical Morning Surfboard Demo - 15th St. Reef Del Mar
 
10am - Expo Doors Open - First 100 attendees entered in early bird 'enter to win' surfboard offering FIREWIRE Fish giveaway
 
10am - Vintage Surfboard Antique Roadshow - BubbleGum Surf Wax seminar room - till 1pm only!!
 
10am - Live shaping - Young shaper spotlight: 20-year-old Ryan Burch shapes in SURFER Magazine shaping Bay 
 
11am - Live shaping - Dennis Murphy shapes a classic Dick Brewer gun in Tribute to the Masters Shape-off honoring Dick Brewer - US Blanks Shaping Bay
 
11:30am - Live shaping - Dave Daum shapes in SURFER Magazine shaping bay
 
NOON - Live music - Acoustic & electric notification musings of Kevin White - TransworldSURF Music Stage
 
12:30pm - Buzzy Trent comments on Dick Brewer and surfboard design: A reading from Anna Moore daughter of Buzzy Trent
 
1pm - Live shaping - Reno Abellira shapes a classic Brewer gun in Tribute to the Masters Shape-off honoring Dick Brewer - US Blanks Shaping Bay
 
1pm - Live music - FutureFins ambassador Boo Stubbs - TransworldSURF Music Stage
 
1:30pm - Live glassing/laminating - FOAM E-Z hand lamination with epoxy resin w/ Dave Daum - BubbleGum Surf Wax seminar room
 
2pm - Live shaping - Jon Wegener shapes an Alaia from Paulownia wood in SURFER Magazine shaping bay
 
2pm - Live music - Tower 7; Rockn Surfn Blues performs - TransworldSURF Music Stage
 
3pm - Live shaping - Gary Linden shapes a classic Brewer gun in Tribute to the Masters Shape-off honoring Dick Brewer - US Blanks Shaping Bay
 
3pm - Seminar - QUICK TIPS TO MAKE AN OLD BOARD LOOK NEW WITH SPRAY PAINTS as seen on THE PAINT SHOP webisodes - using Montana Spray paints and found items, Drew will show how easy it is! BubbleGumSurfWax seminar room
 
4pm - Live shaping - Joe Baguess Swift Movement Hydrodynamica Test Series shapes in SURFER Magazine shaping bay
 
4pm - Seminar - Will Jobson - creator of the Twinzer; on The Origin of Fin Design and The End Result - The Twinzer; BubbleGum Surf Wax seminar room
 
4:30pm - Live music - Australian longboard champion Beau Young; TransworldSURF Music Stage
 
5pm - Seminar - Groundswell society's Glen Hening; Icthyodynamics and Surfboard Design  - A presentation on the pioneering work of Rick Vogel focusing on the shape of an oceanic apex predator, the broadbill swordfish,. Hening will present a slide show and display both fins and surfboards based on the study of swordfish as a starting point for developing new equipment.
 
6pm- Expo doors close for the day
 
7pm - Documentary film Jolyon Hoff's "SEARCHING FOR MICHAEL PETERSON" PREMIERS
(seperate ticket purchase required)
 
 
SACRED CRAFT SURF EXPO SCHEDULE SUNDAY OCTOBER 11
 
10am - Expo Doors Open - First 100 attendees entered in early bird 'enter to win' surfboard offering FIREWIRE Fish giveaway
 
10am - Live glassing/laminating - FOAM E-Z hand lamination with epoxy resin w/ Dave Daum - BubbleGum Surf Wax seminar room
 
11am - Live shaping - From Australia Daniel Thompson of TOMO surfboards shapes in SURFER Magazine shaping bay
 
11am - Live shaping - Ricky Carroll (defending champ) shapes a classic Brewer gun in Tribute to the Masters Shape-off honoring Dick Brewer - US Blanks Shaping Bay
 
11am - THE PATH OF AN ARTIST - A PERSONAL JOURNEY Through an inspiring, colorful slide show, Drew will discuss beginning his art career as a young grom and the path from his first surfboard painting to now, twenty years later. BubbleGum Surf Wax seminar room
 
11:30am - Live music - Will Jobson performs - TransworldSURF Music Stage
 
NOON - Seminar - Lee Vandehurst - The Idiot's Guide to Surfboard Design;  Multi-media and hands-on guide to the basics in surfboard design from outline to rocker, how to measure it and what it does.  Know how your surfboard should work before you catch your first wave. BubbleGum Surf Wax seminar room
 
12:30pm - Live shaping - Cyrus Sutton (KordoroyTV) shapes a hand plane in SURFER Magazine shaping bay
 
1pm- Live Music - FiveAlive - A tribute to the music of the YardBirds; TransworldSURF Music Stage
 
1pm - Live shaping - Pat Rawson shapes a classic Brewer gun in Tribute to the Masters Shape-off honoring Dick Brewer - US Blanks Shaping Bay
 
1:30pm - Seminar -  Whitney Guild - TURN UP THE VOLUME!!!! (What volume is your board?  Is it right for you?Volume is rarely discussed, but is an important single number that can be used to describe each of your boards.We have length, width and thickness, but how it all comes together is the ultimate magic of your board that only your feet will know and "feel". Fish, Thruster, Funboard, Longboard or SUP, your goal will be different as to what you want to get out of the wave you are riding.  Depending on what your board is designed to do will dictate the VOLUME your board should have.  We can measure the VOLUME of your board by submerging it in a tank and calculating the VOLUME it displaces. BubbleGum Surf Wax seminar room
 
1:30pm - Live shaping - Special guest in SURFER Magazine shaping bay
 
2:30pm- Seminar - Stephanie Moyerman  FEMININE PHSYIQUE AND SURFBOARD DESIGN - PHD student @ UCSD Moyerman discusses findings from her ongoing survey and addresses the issues surrounding women and surfboards. BubbleGum Surf Wax seminar room
 
3pm - Judging -  Five finish shaped Dick Brewer guns are judged - Tribute to the Masters Shape-off honoring Dick Brewer - US Blanks Shaping Bay
 
3:30pm - Winner announced - Tribute to the Masters Shape-off honoring Dick Brewer - US Blanks Shaping Bay/Brewer lounge area
 
4pm - SACRED CRAFT Expo doors close.