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The Sacred Craft 2010 Consumer Surf Expo was pleased to announce the honoring of Santa Barbara shaping icon Renny Yater during the expos Tribute to the Masters Shape-off. Five shapers were be selected to replicate a classic Yater design during the Tribute to the Masters Shape-off. The Ventura Sacred Craft Surf Expo took place April 10 & 11 at the Ventura County Fairgrounds at C-street.
Born in Los Angeles in 1932, Reynolds "Renny" Yater started surfing when he was 14. He started production shaping surfboards in 1953 at the age of 21, but not under his name. From 1955 to 1957, he glassed balsa boards for Hobie Surfboards in Dana Point and then refined his shaping skills while working for Dale Velzy in San Clemente from 1957 to 1959. When surfing hit the mainstream, Renny chose to keep his operation small and the quality high when some of his peers were ramping up and turning out the numbers. He made his name as a shaper for the phenomenal Yater Spoon, a spectacularly light andmaneuverable design for the era that was incubated in the long winding points of the Santa Barbara coastline."We are stoked, as well as humbled, to honor Renny Yater, a surfer, craftsman, designer and artist," explained Sacred Craft Expo director Scott Bass. "Renny Yater has shaped thousands of surfboards for thousands of surfers and in doing so he helped shape an entire surf culture at Rincon and the surrounding areas and he continues to do so."