1971 is the year I moved to Cocoa Beach and I remember Seeker Surfboards. The shop was a little secondary shop attached to a 7/11 on the west side of A1A just before the A1A north and south lanes came back to together. I never owned a Seeker but did visit the shop once or twice. It closed sometime in the early '70's and shortly after George Panton opened Inspiration Surfboards in the same space. He was only in there for a short time, sold the shop to an ex NY City cop and his son and that eventually folded. To my knowledge it hasn't been a surf shop since. The building is still a convenience store and the shop space is now a tattoo parlor I think. I don't know any names associated with Seeker but you might try reposting this to the Surfing forum, lots of longtime local graybeards populate that Forum.

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I found some info that says the Owner/shaper was "Rick Burhans" and also lists " Patrick Madden as a shaper as well. I found it on "Stoked-N-Board" in their Brands A - Z Link.

Wasn't that Steve Glasser or Glassner? He went to Rockledge High 

 

Thanks for that link artman, took a little trip down memory lane on that one.

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness -
John Kenneth Galbraith

Stanleys Logo Library has alot more labels and though they share info with Board-N-Stoked their sites don't have all the same labels or version of one label or other so check them both out, glad you were able to find some stuff, I've looked up every board I can remember having!

The board could be from the Innerlight shop which started using the name well after the Cocoa Beach Seeker had closed. The original Seeker was formed by Mark Glasser, Mark Williams and Ken Jensen in 1968. The marriage of two garage operations, Mark2 and Jensen Surfboards. Ken was shaper and artist, Mark W shaper, sander, fin maker, and finish, Mark G laminator and glosser. The first retail shop was the little round building close to the Minuteman Cswy, replaced by condo. That place only held about 20 boards. When Mike Tabling moved his Weber shop from south Cocoa Beach Seeker move there, 1908 S. Orlando, The boards where also sold in Ft. Pierce, Daytona Beach, Jacsksonville, New Jersey and Long Island. The wholesaling of boards did not go well and there were loses. When the Apollo mission at the cape ended, the local business dried up, operations where forced to close. Both Ken (in St. Augustine) and Mark W (in Melbourne) continued to produce garage built boards for some years to follow.

Board form around 1971.

Old label

Garage build mid 80"s in Melbourne by Mark W.


Edited: 07/05/2020 at 08:02 AM by Seasnake

Mid 80's board by Ken J in St. Augustine.

Same story for me