AIPA Surfboards

Aipa Surfboards has been building revolutionary surf designs in Hawaii for over 50 years. Ben Aipa invented the swallow tail in 1971, and as time progressed, thru watching his team riders, he saw something was missing in their boards and was looking for that design ingredient that would allow them to push the performance limits further. In 1974 Ben went to hydro-plane speed boat races on Oahu, and got some inspiration from the hull design. He instantly went straight to his shaping room, grabbed a fresh blank and templated out a standard swallow tail shortboard with a slightly wider forward section. He then dropped the template inside of the outline and carved into the foam with his thumbnail the outline of the hydro plane.