Four months ago, doctors removed a golf ball-sized tumor from Daisy Love Merrick's belly. This was the third. It was also the smallest. One was the size of a Nerf football. Merrick, who's 8 years old, ...

Wielding a balance ruler the size of a small child, Al Merrick scrupulously examined the minutiae in the foam blanks. Like a Moroccan merchant, the Santa Barbara shaping legend inspected the goods ...

“Merrick-style tacos” isn’t the first thing a Mexican food-lover looks for in a new taqueria but that’s what Merrick’s new Taqueria Al Pastor promises. “There are no real authentic Mexican tacos in ...

(01/10) Like the idiot I am I drove off on Saturday wihout throwing my board in the car. 5'4 Al Merrick Fishcuit. If you have any information please give me a call: 805-315-5435 Casey ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH Al Merrick’s hands have shaped countless surfboards through the years. But apparently, they’re better with fiberglass than with concrete. Merrick, 63, scrawled his name with angular ...

"Shaping Surf History: Tom Curren and Al Merrick, California 1980-1983" by surf photographer Jimmy Metyko has hit the market. And eleven-time world champ Kelly Slater thinks surf history buffs will ...

Day to Day profiles Al Merrick, the founder of Channel Island Surfboards in Santa Barbara, Calif. Merrick has been designing boards for more than three decades, and is considered by many to be the ...

Jamie O'Brien, Ian Walsh, Julian Wilson, and Kolohe Andino join Raimana Van Bastolaer at his home in Tahiti and hop on the Kelly Slater board shaped by Al Merrick.

Channel Islands Surfboards is returning to its roots. The Carpinteria-based company, which has been owned by Burton Snowboards since 2006, is in the process of being resold to a collective of ...