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RC began surfing in 1964 as an enthusiastic 11-year-old. And, as most of us are, he was hooked immediately –– and not only on surfing but the craftsmanship that comes with surfboards. Everything from shaping, glassing, innovation and design interested him as he continued developing as a surfer and a shaper. He progressed in surfing, climbing the ladder to competition and charged big Pipe and Sunset. He competed in the first ever Katin Team Challenge on the North side of the pier and then entered and RC surfboards team in the event for years after. The majority of the early seventies he spent dueling with the best. But then, after accomplishing what he wanted to in surfing, RC made a drastic shift and disappeared from the world of surfing.
THE LIFESTYLE...
Running through the foam dust creating by shaping legends like Dewey Webber at the ripe age of nine will get a kid more than just foam dust on his clothes –– in the early 1960s it got you $1.25 if you cleaned the trash out of the glass room for them. Not to mention the lifetimes worth of shaping knowledge that came with it. “As a kid I would run through the skid-row shaping bays of these legends,” recalls Robert “RC” Cirac of his humble beginnings in the “DogTown” streets of Lower Mar Vista.
And that’s where it all started.
Blessed with surfing and shaping skills to match his business savvy, in 1969 RC himself created RC Surfboards out of Huntington Beach. More specifically, 17th street. “Seventeenth Street to Taco Bell on Tenth street was our spot,” RC says of the nostalgic early days. “We would surf, come back shape a board and get back out there right after. It was the real deal.”
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