A small workshop.
Run by Sarah
It started with
one torn 4/3.
The Wetsuit Repair Shack was started by Sarah Quinney, a surfer and the founder of Boardsox and Tailor Wetsuits.
After years around surf gear through Boardsox, Sarah kept seeing good wetsuits being thrown out over repairs that were actually fixable — broken zips, torn panels, seam splits, neck tears, and knee holes.
So she started learning how to fix them properly.
What began as a hands-on project has grown into a repair service for surfers who would rather save their favourite suit than bin it and buy another one.
Every repair is done by hand, with care, patience, and a pretty stubborn belief that good surf gear should last.
No big factory. No flashy nonsense. Just real wetsuit repairs, done by someone who surfs, understands the gear, and knows a good suit is too good to ditch.
Four things, that's it.
Repair beats replace
Every suit we save is one less suit in landfill — Fix beats new, almost always.
Done by hand
No machine seams, no production-line shortcuts. A real person on a real bench, doing it the way it lasts.
Trust over upsell
We send the quote first. If a suit isn't worth saving, we tell you. We'd rather lose the job than sell you something you don't need.
Small & local
One shack - Owned and run in Ocean Grove on the coast. We surf the same breaks you do.
Wetsuits we have saved
Drop in.
Have a coffee.
The shack is open Monday to Friday, 11am till 5pm. Bring the suit. We'll have a look.