Where is 42 surfboards?

If we are surfing at home, you can usually find us in the cold green water just to the north or south of Cannon Beach, Oregon.

If we are road tripping, you would have to look up and down the west coast. And if we are traveling, well then the whole globe is fair game.

If we are shaping boards though, you can find us in our shop in downtown Hood River, Oregon where we work in a big old brick ice-house right down on the railroad tracks. From about 1915 until its decommissioning in 1965, it served as a cold fruit storage and rail shipment facility for Hood River’s orchardists. For decades horse-drawn carts (and later, trucks) would line up in the fall to deliver huge loads of freshly picked fruit to the Union Building.
Eventually, more modern facilities were built in the Hood River Valley and until we moved in, the building had been inactive since the late 1960’s.

Today the the old building sits quietly beside the railroad tracks that it once served.

And if you listen carefully, you can hear wood surfboards being shaped, sanded, and packed for many of the same places that boxes from the valley were shipped to in the past century. Quality and tradition are hard habits to break.

You can get a hold of us at Lars@42surfboards.com or 541-490-9099. If we are in the shaping room, we'll get back to you as soon as it is quiet enough to talk.

Lars and the 42 Crew
42 surfboards