Surfboards by Peter Poppler
Peter Poppler has been making custom surfboards on the north shore of Kauai since 1981. He hand shapes each board to the specifications of each customer. Peter also glasses his own Poly boards. Epoxy surfboards and SUP boards are also hand shaped. These are pictures of his custom boards and their riders.
If you are interested in ordering a surfboard please use the contact form on the home page. We are able to ship by Fedex surfboards up to 9 feet in length.
If you are interested in ordering a surfboard please use the contact form on the home page. We are able to ship by Fedex surfboards up to 9 feet in length.
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Peter's board 2014
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My perfect board.
6'8" four fin, channel bottom 3/20/2014 Peter and daughter Michelle
Venus rising as the morning star, Michelle named her board Aphrodite.
Sophia Bartlow
Here is Peter's niece Sophia with her rad channel bottom quad with foam fins! Peter reshaped my old four fin into a new thinner version, a beautiful board with some very nice history. The NOW of this board and Sophia riding it is that she just WON the Hawaii state championships at Ala moana bowls, short board division! May 8, 2011 Congratulations
Sophia! Aphrodite shaped and painted
This is sunrise change of colors with Venus rising.
Sophia's 9' gun shaped and painted July 2012. That is a Fairy "turn"! Balsa
Here is a balsa fin Peter just made (8/1/11) for Gary's SUP board.
7' mini tanker
This board has been shaped and reshaped three times! This time with with four balsa fins! Peter takes the old board and strips off the glass and reshapes it thus recycling an old surfboard to become new again. This particular board has been the "rainbow rider" and is on it's third life, a little smaller and thinner each time! Now it is just right for me! I painted it as "Kundalini Rising" or since it is Peter's number 888 board he has made it can also be rainbow rider 888.
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Peter Poppler
Here is Peter with his very wide 23" four fin made for himself. It is 5'10" ! April, 2011 Actually the four fin design history was way back before hurricane Iva! That is 1982, Peter was making four fin "Pocket Rockets" the boys of our town named them.
 
Sophia's gun
Peter with Sophia's 9' gun made for riding the North shore of Oahu big waves! Ready to go for this winter of 2012!
Duncan's four fin6'2" channel bottom , 2011 version of the "Pocket Rocket!
Balsa Bonzer fin set up
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Thruster with balsa fins
This board is for Gordy's grand daughter.
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Balsa fin Bonzer
Here is Randal's second bonzer board.
Four fin fish
This is a custom made four fin with hand shaped foam core fins, one of Peter's specialties. The Painting is done by Lupita Poppler. It is 5'5" long, the dimensions are 12" nose, 20" wide, 15" tail, and 2 1/4" thick. This board is riding in the kauai surf with Judd.
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Four fin semi gun
Bruce and his Kahili special, Pilaua too.
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 Bruce wanted to go in a new direction, so Peter made a 9'2" four fin gun. The dimensions are 14"nose, 23 5/8" wide point, 15 1/4" tail and 3 3/4" thick, with a single to double concave bottom. Bruce had been riding a 10' long board epoxy, but now loves his new poly board, turning and maneuvering as if on a short board.
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Rounded square tail thruster long board
Jim had been stand up paddling for a while but wanted to get back into surfing again. He had the grand revelation that he could buy two surfboards for less than one SUP board. Now he is happily surfing and turning more on his very maneuverable 8'8" thruster long board.
Peter's single fin
Peter made himself a smaller thicker version of first single fin, (that I have been riding, now we are twins;)
It is 6'2" long, 22 1/2" wide, nose 15", tail 16", double wing rounded square tail, with 8 channels and a custom hand made foam core single fin. UPDATE Peter has since added two balsa bonzer fins to this board and the one below with a green fin, that one is on the surfboard sale tab.
It is 6'2" long, 22 1/2" wide, nose 15", tail 16", double wing rounded square tail, with 8 channels and a custom hand made foam core single fin. UPDATE Peter has since added two balsa bonzer fins to this board and the one below with a green fin, that one is on the surfboard sale tab.
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Retro channel bottom single fin
Peter decided to try going retro with a single fin, with the modern twist of foam core single fin accompanied by eight channels, and double wings. This is a new version of his 1978 channel double wing pin tail that he and Bruce Jones designed together. This is 6'6" long, 14" nose, 22" wide,15" tail and
2 3/4" thick. P.S. Lupita adopted this board and rode it all winter 2011. Bert
Bert and Peter with Bert's 11' rounded square tail thruster, channel bottom surfboard. Both boards were painted by Lupita.
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 Bert at Anini
Here is Bert who has been riding Peter's boards for over 30 years. This is his 9' rounded square tail thruster channel bottom with custom foam fins!
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Gerry
Dr. Gerry with his 8'2" single to double barrel concave bottom, with four fins.
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Sophia's board
Look how thin it is! and how nice the fins are!
2013 series of mini tankies
This four fin was an order from Bernie, who saw our website and contacted us through e-mail then talked to Peter on the phone. He lives on Oahu, and has already ordered a second board. Peter is working on it now. OCT 2013
The board on the right is another bonzer for Randal. David ordered this board from this website after contacting us and talking to Peter on the phone. He came to Kauai on vacation from Texas, ordered his board so it was done when he came to Kauai. Peter and David surfed one of our better big wave days in October of 2013, riding 6-10 foot waves at our favorite surf spot. Hurray!
Since David travels a lot he ordered FCS fins on his surfboard.
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Matt
He just got this board 2/2012 and told us that it made him feel 20 years younger!
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