The winter of 1975-1976 had a lot of powerful swells out of the Gulf of Alaska that kept the Santa Barbara coast consistent for weeks at a time! Here’s a photo of my brother Mark Wahl enjoying Santa Barbara’s coastline.
Mark is where the roots of Wahlboards started. He took me surfing when I was learning and taught me how to make surfboards. In those early years, he was my mentor…surfing and shaping/glassing boards together.
