Ascher Kelp Forest Bolt 7'2" Surfboard Ed "Doc" Ricketts and crew

Ed "Doc" Ricketts and crew chartered this 77-foot sardine boat into the Sea of Cortez in Baja California

The hand strap is made with nylon covered with off-cuts from Hotline Wetsuit production

and the tail block is made of redwood from John Steinbeck's first house in Pacific Grove

The original square nail holes have been filled with gold pigment from Black Diamond Pigments and Entropy Resins sap-based epoxy

a museum-quality aluminum 5"x7" display sign

Ascher Kelp Forest Bolt 7'2" Surfboard Ed "Doc" Ricketts and crewLearn more about Ventana custom wooden surfboards. This custom, kelp forest board is a sleek, hollow framed, wooden surfboard that pays homage to an original Lightning Bolt shape created by Jack Shipley and Gerry Lopez. It's a surfable work of art that's equally at home on a wall or a wave. The bottom deck uses redwood burl driftwood collected in Big Sur as the holdfast for the kelp. The kelp blades are made of Douglas fir from the original hull of