The article follows shapers Eric Diamond and Dave Boehne as they refine the unconventional Diamondmind Spaceship at Salt Creek in Dana Point. Built as an experimental hybrid with an '80s beaked nose, swallow tail and longboard‑like rails, the craft has been tested by local riders including Kevin "Skarvy" Skarvna and Kolton Sullivan. Footage appears in the new documentary Homesick For Another Planet, which mixes surf culture with playful explorations of alien and conspiracy lore. Viewers are invited to watch and decide for themselves.
UFOs, a 'Spaceship' Surfboard and Quantum Shaping: Inside Dana Point's Diamondmind Experiment
The article follows shapers Eric Diamond and Dave Boehne as they refine the unconventional Diamondmind Spaceship at Salt Creek in Dana Point. Built as an experimental hybrid with an '80s beaked nose, swallow tail and longboard‑like rails, the craft has been tested by local riders including Kevin "Skarvy" Skarvna and Kolton Sullivan. Footage appears in the new documentary Homesick For Another Planet, which mixes surf culture with playful explorations of alien and conspiracy lore. Viewers are invited to watch and decide for themselves.
07:22, 08.11.2025Culture
Unsolved Mystery at Dana Point: Surfcraft, Sci‑Fi and a Dash of Conspiracy
"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real." — Niels Bohr
In a modest shaping bay above Salt Creek in Dana Point, California, shapers Eric Diamond of Cosmic Creek and Dave Boehne of Infinity Surfboards are turning heads with an unusual project: the Diamondmind Spaceship. Part experimental surfcraft, part playful thought experiment, the design blends retro and modern cues while its creators joke about riding wormholes and quasars.
Unorthodox? Absolutely. Conventional? Not at all. The builders resist simple labels — "not a mid‑length," they say — and are pushing toward a unique hybrid that mixes performance elements from multiple eras.
The craft and the crew
The Diamondmind Spaceship has evolved over several years with input from a crew of local test pilots who have helped shape its behavior in the water. Riders involved include:
- Kevin "Skarvy" Skarvna — longboarder turned kneeboard stalwart
- Kolton "Kolty" Sullivan
- Ian "Gato San" Gottron
- the Brown Blur
- Eric Diamond
Visually the craft is hybrid: a beaked nose reminiscent of '80s shred sleds, a fishlike swallow tail, quad cluster configuration and rails that behave like those on a high‑performance longboard. To borrow Han Solo, "She's got it where it counts."
From skunk works to the screen
This week Diamond and Boehne opened their Salt Creek "skunk works" to filmmakers for the new science‑fiction‑tinged documentary Homesick For Another Planet. The film pairs footage of the shaping process and in‑water tests with broader, sometimes playful investigations into alien life and conspiracy culture. Some segments push speculative ideas — one interview even suggests, tongue‑in‑cheek, that the World Surf League could be a government psyop.
At SURFER we present the reporting and the documentary material and invite readers to draw their own conclusions. The project leans heavily on a mixture of surf craft innovation, local lore and surreal humor — the kind of storytelling that thrives where craft culture and counterculture intersect.
Note on tone: Many of the wilder claims in the film are presented with irony and local color. The Diamondmind Spaceship is best understood as an experimental shaping project with a strong creative and theatrical bent, rather than as literal evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
Originally reported by Surfer on Nov. 7, 2025, in the Surf Culture section.