About Us

Founded in Dana Point in 2016, Board Bandages came to life for two very specific reasons: Salt Creek and Doheny. If you've surfed either, you already know where this is going. Salt Creek is fast, crowded, and stacked with former pros and overconfident chargers who love a good late drop-usually straight into the nose of your board. Ding. Doheny is the opposite: mellow, friendly, and packed with beginners learning the ropes, smiling as they drop in and ditch their boards at the first sign of a wave over a foot tall. Ding. Ding. Ding. Either way, boards were getting wrecked.

After enough failed sticker experiments, one trunk permanently sealed shut by Solarez, and weeks spent out of the water waiting on professional surfboard repair, frustration hit critical mass. Something had to change.

That's when conversations with a friend-who happened to own a vinyl manufacturing business-put the real problem into focus. Traditional fixes took too long and regular stickers weren't designed for nonstop sun, salt, and water exposure. Surfboards needed a decal purpose-built for the environment they actually live in. That realization kicked off months of testing, tweaking, and refining.

Different vinyls. More layers. Fewer layers. Smooth top sheets. No top sheets. Mild adhesive. Adhesive that was way too aggressive (note to self: do not test on skin). Eventually, the formula clicked: a hydrophobic, textured top sheet that accepts wax better than bare fiberglass, a strong-but-forgiving adhesive that stays put in the surf yet removes cleanly with zero residue, and the perfect vinyl weight that flexes with a board without stretching or weakening. That's when the Board Bandage was born.

Nearly a decade later, Board Bandages have traveled the world. From river surfers in Germany to the island of Jersey, from Jaws to The Box. From Southern California to our new home base in North Carolina, Board Bandages have proven themselves session after session.

Proudly manufactured by a small crew of real hands in South Carolina, we're proud to celebrate 10 years of Board Bandages. As for what's next for us? We're working on it. What's next for you? Probably a cracked surfboard. After all, that's how you ended up here, right?