SHOP HISTORY

John and Nick relaxing with some friends after a hard days work.

2 Mile Surf Shop was started in 2003 by John Moore and Nick Krieger. Prior to opening 2 Mile Surf Shop Nick and John ran their own surf businesses.

John had been making custom surfboards since he was a kid on the east coast. After college, he went on to open a surf shop in Cape Cod called the Pump House. This is where he started shaping under the Mystic Label. Over the next few years, John shaped and glassed hundreds of boards for his customers. In 1995, John sold the Pump House and moved to California in search of better waves and warmer winters. John kept the Mystic Surfboard label and continued to shape in California. He quickly built a reputation as being one of the best underground shapers in the Bay Area. John shaped boards at his house in Tiburon where he had converted one of the rooms into a surfboard factory. When the boards were finished, John met his customers at the beach to deliver the boards.

Nick started a surf school, Bolinas Surf Lessons, in 1998. Nick used to meet his surf students at the Bolinas Surf Lessons van and walk to the beach to offer surf lessons. Having grown up surfing in Bolinas, Nick had an abundance of local knowledge to share with his students. Combined with his patience and love for the sport of surfing, he was the right choice for anyone who wanted to learn to surf in the Bay Area.

Bolinas Surf Lessons and Mystic Surf Boards were both successful because of the hard work John and Nick put into their businesses as well as the word-of-mouth advertising they received from satisfied customers.

Nick and John are long-time friends who worked together to promote one another's small, underground businesses. John sponsored Bolinas Surf Lessons and shaped all of the surfboards boards Nick used for lessons. Nick utilized John's years of surfing experience by having him help with surf lessons on busy summer days. It was on one of these busy summer days that the idea of opening a surf shop in Bolinas came to them. John and Nick were hanging out at the Bolinas Surf Lessons van in between lessons when someone walked up and asked if there was a surf shop in town. It was as if a light bulb went off in their heads.

The following spring, John and Nick opened the doors of 2 Mile Surf Shop. John continues to shape custom Mystic surfboards and keeps a range of pre-made sizes in stock at the shop. Since 2 Mile is so close to the beach, Nick can run Bolinas Surf Lessons out of the surf shop instead of the van.

Now John and Nick can offer so much more than surf lessons and custom surfboards to their customers. 2 Mile Surf Shop has a fleet of rental boards and suits, a large selection of long and short boards from a number of manufactures, a range of wetsuits, boots, gloves, and hoods and if you forgot your shorts or sandals 2 Mile's got you covered with your clothing needs as well.