Red Triangle Board Riders

Red Triangle Board Riders

RTBR (Red Triangle Board Riders Club) began in 1983 as Red Triangle Surf Club and evolved into competitive longboard club when the PPSC (Pedro Point Surf Club) took those unique origins into its modern form and reformed in 1987. “The Keating brothers and some other Ocean Beach guys started surfing Pedro Point in the late ‘30s and early ‘40s after Dick Keating got turned on to surfing by the Kahanamoku brothers while in the Islands for a swimming contest.  Talking about Ocean Beach back in the ‘40’s, Fred Van Dyke said that most of the real board surfing was done at Pedro Point and Santa Cruz because those places were less exposed than Ocean Beach and easier to handle on clunky equipment.”  This original iteration evolved into the modern RTBR in 2022 when Chris Loeswick put his endless energy behind it. Steve Dwyer accepted the role of leading the club for the 2025-2026 season. The club encompasses a huge geographical portion of Northern California stretching from Marin County in the North Bay to Half Moon Bay as the southern boundary of San Mateo County with San Francisco County sandwiched in the middle. Noteworthy surf breaks within include Ocean Beach in San Francisco to Mavericks in Half Moon Bay.