Pale surfboards hanging side by side on wooden wall pegs
A long rack of teal and white surfboards standing in a row

Shaped behind the dune at La Gravière

Shortboards, fish, mids and logs from Bastien Darrigade's bay in Hossegor. From €720, fins from €69.

See the rack
Orange and yellow surfboards lined up on a shelf with a red fin
Red, orange and white boards standing in a wall rack
Yellow, pink and white surfboards packed tightly in a rack
Blue, red and green surfboards standing close together

What should you ride?

36.3litres

You turn on the face and paddle out on your own. Keep a little extra foam for the soft days at Les Estagnots.

Bastien would hand you this one

A white and teal board standing against a whitewashed wall

Fish

Lette Fish

€770

5'9" · 35.5 L · EPS, twin

Fresh off the rack

Glassed in October, sanded on Friday, on the wall since Saturday morning. Each one is the only one.

All the boards
The pointed nose of a black shortboard against a white wall

Shortboard

La Gravière

€720

5'10" · 28.5 L · PU, thruster

Yellow and blue boards leaning on a white brick wall

Fish

Quad Courant

€790

6'0" · 38 L · PU, quad

A yellow board standing in the sand at the water's edge

Mid-length

Lac Single

€920

7'6" · 54 L · PU, single fin

A hand guiding an electric planer across a white foam blank against a blue wall

Blue light, foam dust

The room at the back of Zone Pédebert where every board on the rack started as a block of foam.

The planer

A rebuilt 1987 planer. Takes a blank down to its rocker in about forty passes a side.

The sander

Soft pad at 80 grit, then screen by hand. Most of the dust you see comes off the rails.

The glass

6+4 oz on the deck, 4 oz underneath, two days curing in the warm room.

Inside the bay
Two surfers on a dark blue wave as it pitches over a sandbar

Tuesday, 1.2 m at 11 seconds

Light offshore until eleven, then it swings north-west. Low tide at 08:40. Here is what we would take out.

La Gravière, first lightLa Gravière 5'10"28.5 LLes Estagnots, mid-tideLette Fish 5'9"35.5 LLe Penon, after lunchLac Single 7'6"54 L
A blue keel fin and black fins standing on a board in the sand

Fins & wax

Twin keel fins

€119

Pair · fibreglass · dual tab

Three black fins on a board tail at the beach

Fins & wax

Thruster fin set

€95

Set of 3 · honeycomb core · medium

A single fin and leash on a board on the sand, in black and white

Fins & wax

9" single fin

€69

Fibreglass · longboard box

Hands rubbing a bar of wax onto a white deck

Fins & wax

Cold-water wax

€12.50

Pack of 3 bars · water 13 to 19 °C

Fins and wax

Every board leaves the bay with one bar of cold-water wax. Fins are sold apart, so you can keep the set you already like.

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