Surfing Heritage is now open 7 Days a Week, 11am-5pm!

Surfing Heritage will be closed on Monday, May 28 in observance of Memorial Day and will reopen on Tuesday, May 29

Come spend an afternoon with surfing icon and legendary shaper Renny Yater

Saturday, June 9, 2012, 1PM

Yater at Rincon, 1960. photo: Severson/surferart.com

Renny Yater 

Walk through The Innovations of Hobie exhibition and SHF surfboard time-line with guest docent Renny Yater

From 1955 to 1957, Yater glassed balsa boards for Hobie in Dana Point and then refined his shaping skills while working for Dale Velzy from 1957 to 1959. In 1959, Renny transplanted to Santa Barbara, opened the Santa Barbara Surf Shop and began shaping under his own label. Come listen to this contemporary legend give his unique perspective on the Southern California surf scene during its golden era.

SHF Members $5, non members $10

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Tickets can also be purchased on-site at the Surfing Heritage Foundation during museum operating hours, Monday-Sunday, 11:00 AM- 5:00 PM.

For more information, please e-mail: info@surfingheritage.org or call 949.388.0313 x0

Tickets will be available at Will Call

Upcoming Exhibit at Surfing Heritage

The Happy Beach Bums from San Onofre

August 5 - October 28, 2012

The recent re-discovery of a collection of 150 black and white Polaroid photographs taken of families at San Onofre beach in the early 1960s is the basis for The Happy Beach Bums from San Onofre, an exhibition scheduled for August 5 to October 28, 2012 at Surfing Heritage Foundation. 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a print-on-demand book reproducing the original album, with essays by Steve Pezman (co-founder of The Surfer's Journal) and John Upton (professor, photographer, curator, and co-author of the college textbook Photograph). The Happy Beach Bums from San Onofre is curated by Steve Wilkings. 

Additional details coming soon...

Hobie Exhibit

The Innovations of Hobie

April 28-July 15, 2012, Daily 5-9 p.m.
This exhibition has been made possible through major support from 

Gordon Clark, Founder of Clark Foam

with additional support from

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

This is the inaugural exhibition in the new Croul Family Foundation Gallery. The exhibit is curated by Barry Haun and is open to the public through July 15, 2012.

We have event tee-shirts featuring the classic image of Hobie at Sano, pictured above,  
$20 while supplies last 
Click HERE if you'd like to purchase one

Thank you

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Surfing Heritage Foundation

110 Calle Iglesia · San Clemente · CA · 92672 · 949.388.0313

Visiting hours: 11am - 5pm daily