Maurice Cole

Maurice Cole is one of surfboard building’s most passionate icons. He’s traced an equally sinuous and eccentric course over several decades as one of the industry’s leading architects. From iconoclastic beginnings, to run-ins with the law, to corporate board labels, and back to small-batch customs, Maurice has always been heralded as a crucial innovator and spirit of the surfing world. While living in France throughout the 80s and 90s, Maurice became the shaper and fixer for ex-pat and surf superstar Tom Curren. In 1990, Curren earned a World Title atop M.C.’s recently developed reverse vee design–marking a cognitive leap in the common thinking about rocker and its relationship to speed. 

One of many elements which make surfing such an entertaining pursuit is its nascent stage. In many cases, the pioneers, stewards, and innovators aren’t behind museum glass but still living among and pulling into the lot down at the beach. Maurice Cole is one of those figures, whose enduring influence ripples through the spectrum of surfing subcultures. We are thrilled and honored to welcome Maurice to our shaping in Brooklyn this coming fall, 2026.