A small workshop.
Built by surfers.
Built by surfers.
It started with
one torn 4/3.
one torn 4/3.
Sarah is the founder of Boardsox, where the wetsuit repairs happen, but long before repairing wetsuits became part of the business, she was just another surfer trying to save a suit she couldn’t afford to replace.
After tearing one of her favourite wetsuits on a reef, she was told by multiple repairers it “wasn’t worth fixing.” The replacement price was over $700.
So she learned how to do it herself.
What started as late nights watching YouTube tutorials and testing repairs in the garage slowly turned into an obsession with wetsuit construction, craftsmanship, and giving good gear a second life.
Today, Sarah personally handles the repairs at The Wetsuit Repair Shack. Every wetsuit is repaired by hand using techniques refined through repairing more than 1,200 suits over the years.
No big factory.
No shortcuts.
Just real repairs done by someone who actually surfs and understands how much a good wetsuit matters.
Four things, that's it.
Repair beats replace
Every suit we save is one less suit in landfill — and one less Vietnam-shipped replacement. 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
Owned and run in Ocean Grove VIC. We surf the same breaks you do.
The shack at a glance.
Drop in.
Have a coffee.
The shack is open Monday to Friday, 11am till 5pm. Bring the suit. We'll have a look.