Co-Founders and Ocean Ambassadors Matt and Tash

It all started when Matt and I first met fifteen years ago while I was competing in a whitewater kayaking competition in Hood River, Oregon (USA).

We were married six months later and then walked the beaten path for the next five years, selling cars and working in an office in the USA. Then one day, just before the markets crashed in 2008, I said to Matt, “Let’s do something different.” Matt was a sailmaker by trade and I knew he yearned to return to the ocean. “Okay,” he replied, not believing we could break free. Six weeks later, with our house emptied and rented, we found ourselves in the jungles of Costa Rica as the owners of Point Break Surf, a surf school on the Pacific coast.

Our closets were no longer filled with office clothes, but board shorts and bikinis.

Our kids eventually became fluent in Spanish. Family dinners were no longer a rarity. After five years of teaching surfing and SUP in a tropical paradise, it was time to move to another paradise: Matakana, New Zealand.

Connecting through cohabitation and shared loved for our ocean..

It only took a day trip to this remarkable coastline to realize this was a place we wanted to raise our kids and share our passion. We have made Matakana our home since then and haven’t looked back. And you can often find us surfing and paddle boarding at Omaha and the surrounding beaches.

Meet the team..