The Surfing Legend Billy Burns

When you are the owner of Coconut Pet’s Surfboard Repair and Trading Company and you have hundreds of different surfing vehicle choices close at hand every day—then you have the life of and legend of Billy Burns.

One day you set out from OB alone on a paddle board south. Down and back the entire length of the Cliffs the only other person’s soul that you come across belongs to Skip Frye.

Delivering the Authentic Surf Shop Experience

During the heyday of surfboard shops from the 1950’s and 1960’s was the on premises ethos to provide everything that you need to go surfing. In the times since most shops have specialized, catering to items as odd as display surfboards that serve no purpose in the ocean.

Billy’s guiding vision to develop Coconut Peet’s has been to focus on these core surfboard principal offerings:

• New, Used & Vintage Surfboards for Sale
• New & Used Wetsuits for Sale
• Surfboard Repairs
• Custom Built Surfboards
• Buying & Trading of Surfboards
• All the Other Gear You Really Need to Ride Waves

By integrating the satisfaction for all of the gear quests and equipment challenges of surfing together in one shop, and offering affordable, fast, and friendly service—Coconut Peet’s has distinguished itself as the Authentic San Diego Surf Shop.

The Beautiful Elegant Solution That Works for Surfing

Steve Jobs coined this excellence returning development process as under estimated by most and given up by many who try to reach for the end.

Billy has taken on key surfing challenges of delivering people the world’s most satisfying flow state experience and evolving through toxic construction and materials ingredients.

While pioneering the direction to sustainable surfing, all ages of surfboards are preserved, restored, and are ready to ride.

RERIP Surfboard Recycling Partner

RERIP is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the environmental impact from surfing equipment.

Coconut Peet’s is a RERIP partner that helps collect, restore, and recycle unwanted surfboards and wetsuits.

Coconut Peet’s is a vanguard example of a business taking on and solving the key impact issues of a whole industry.

365 Surfing Challenge

Interview with Billy Burns

What kind of surfboard have you been riding lately?

Recently I took on the challenge of surfing every day for a year and riding a different surfboard each day. With the Coconut Peet’s shop full of just about every kind of wave riding vehicle, his challenge was not find the surfboards. I surfed for 345 days on a different surfboard each time.

With all of San Diego County Surfing at your disposal where do you like to ride?

I’m pretty migratory across the whole county when it comes to surfing, you could say I’m a nomad cause I get around to exceptional beaches from up in the North County all the way down to the Sloughs in Imperial Beach.

What type of wave gets you the most excited to surf?

Bigger waves get me the most excited. I’ve ridden some monster waves way off shore at the Sloughs. The strong personal energy that gets excited in me when the waves are overhead are something I never want to give up.

What’s you recent most ridden surfboard?

With this question in the air Billy grabbed a photo of him ripping an overhead wave in nearby Mission Beach. “The Firewire surfboard underfoot showed up at the shop and in less than 90 minutes I had the board repaired and back out in the water surfing.

What sort of surfboard fin configuration do you prefer?

Typically I’m most happy on a quad fin setup, but I also do enjoy surfing singlefins.