Our story

ABOUT GOATHILL SURFBOARDS: 

Scott and Garrett Pickard are the Father and Son Shaper Duo behind Goathill Surfboards of Costa Mesa, CA. The idea behind Goathill surfboards started in the early 2000's when Scott was itching to shape his own board. He found a planer at a garage sale and shaped G a board in the backyard. Scott wanted to throw a label on the Board and thought Goathill Surfboards was the perfect fit for the vibe. Garrett eager to help threw together a rough logo, and over the next 10 years or so they each shaped only a few boards. 

In 2020 when COVID haulted regular life across the globe, Garrett and Scott decided to make the most of their free time, buiding a shaping bay on "the farm", bringing new life to Goathill surfboards. Orders from friends and family soon turned into orders from across the globe with boards heading to folks from Alaska to Puerto Rico. 

We hand shape everyboard right in our backyard shaping bay with love and care and work with the best hand glassers in Costa Mesa for a top quality product everytime. 

We do mostly custom orders but have several board models that have gone through a few iterations that we really love. 

HISTORY OF THE NAME:

With 3 generations of Pickard's born and raised in Costa Mesa, California, the namesake of our company stems from an old Nickname given to Costa Mesa in the 30's. Though we do love a good beer from the Goathill Tavern, our company is not named after the bar, rather it share its namesake with the Goathill Tavern.

"In its earliest days, Costa Mesa was known as “Goat Hill.” Residents of that era didn’t particularly care for the nickname, which they considered snide. According to the Costa Mesa Historical Society, the name first surfaced in the 1930s, when Newport Harbor High School opened. Newport Beach and Costa Mesa children, attending the campus together, developed a rivalry. Newport kids teased the Costa Mesa kids, saying they were from Goat Hill, apparently because some homeowners in the semi-rural town were known to have goats roaming their properties. Costa Mesa students, in turn, said the Newport kids were from “Mackerel Flats” or even “Cesspool Flats.” One nickname stuck. It wasn’t Newport’s." -By Bradley Zint

Here at Goathill Surfboards we embrace that nickname to the fullest, loving the rural vibes of our small backyard shaping bay, where you can hear the neighbor's goats, and hangout with our chickens between shaping boards.