An Update from Prison! BadFish Surfboards

Do you remember our customer from the Crestline Correctional Facility? If not you can look back in the archives of our blog. Well Tony "Neptune" Stearns is still building boards behind bars! I don't know if you got a chance to see his little write up in SurferMag and Transworld Surf but he's graced the pages of those two magazines. We just received an email from him and here's what he had to say:

Hello my friends, this is Tony Stearns, Badfish Surfboards. The only surfboards ever made in prison. I wanted to show you some photos of my current inventory and also let you know about my Facebook.com page called Badfish Surfboards. Please help me create a cyber snowball with this information. If you could forward this message and my photos to anyone you know who surfs it will help me get off the ground. I want to thank you all for your help and support. I'm trying to do the best I can while I am here in prison.

Love and respect to everyone!

Tony Stearns T-43417

P.O. Box 10

Crestline, CA 92325

Board Building in Prison!!!

One of my favorite things about being involved in the surf industry/working at Foam E-Z is meeting and getting to know new people, all kinds of people, from all different walks of life. Recently we have been selling board building supplies to an inmate at Pilot Rock State Prison in Crestline, California named Tony “Neptune” Stearns. This guy has gone through some rough times and made some poor decisions and has been in prison since 2001. One good decision he made was to turn his life around and do something positive with his time in prison and try to actively get involved in his rehabilitation. I have spoken to Tony a few times on the phone and the guy sounds amped about board building and his rehabilitation. I’m looking forward to more updates from “Neptune” and even meeting him soon in person to discuss his boards and board building in general. If anyone would like to contact him I know he would be stoked. You can send letters to him at:

Tony Stearns T-43417
P.O. Box 10
Crestline, CA 92325

This isn't the first time Foam E-Z has supplied prisoners with the supplies to build the board of their dreams. In the mid-nineties we were contacted by three Hawaiian inmates that were doing hard time in a Federal Penitentiary in Minnesota. We have pics and letters from them which we will elaborate on in a future post.

Keep up the good work Neptune. We're here for you!

Grizzley