Bentley x Marnie Rays: Where elegance meets the break

A surfboard bearing the Bentley name? At first glance, it sounds like a paradox. On one side, British refinement, elevated to its most intricate and discreet craftsmanship. On the other, the free spirit of surfing—its salty lines, its instinctive, sometimes irreverent culture. And yet, it is precisely within this tension that the Bentley x Marnie Rays collaboration finds its place: a one-of-a-kind board, born between Newport Beach and Crewe. An unexpected alliance—between Californian sunshine and the quiet countryside of Cheshire, between industrial precision and artisanal gesture, between obsession with detail and surrender to movement.

On April 28, 2025, Bentley Motors unveiled a one-of-a-kind surfboard, designed in collaboration with Marnie Rays and Otter Surfboards. A singular piece, conceived as a tribute to craftsmanship, adventure, and the essence of surfing in its purest form.
At the heart of this collaboration is Lindsey Holland, founder of Marnie Rays, a series of surf and wellness retreats that embody a pared-back form of elegance. Her philosophy? A discreet form of luxury, built around experience, quality time, and the simplicity of place — an approach that resonates unexpectedly with Bentley.

Inside the iconic Bentley Woodshop in Crewe — typically reserved for the interiors of Mulliner models — Lindsey Holland and James Otter, founder of Otter Surfboards, selected a Koa veneer, a prized Hawaiian wood known for its straight grain and warm hue. A nod both to surfing tradition and to Bentley’s century-old dedication to fine wood craftsmanship.

This Koa veneer, prepared using rare techniques — some of which date back to the production of the Mulsanne — was then entrusted to Otter in his workshop in Cornwall. There, the board was shaped entirely by hand, following a meticulous process that honors the material. The result: a refined, harmonious object, bearing the signature of all three collaborators — at the intersection of design, sustainability, and exceptional craftsmanship.

The piece will be unveiled exclusively at the Marnie Rays VIP retreat in Cornwall, before being auctioned in support of Surfability UK, an organization dedicated to making surfing accessible to people with disabilities.

This Bentley x Marnie Rays surfboard won’t change the history of design — nor that of surfing. But that’s not the point. What it does offer is a quiet reflection of the times: a desire to reintroduce craftsmanship into luxury, to rediscover forgotten gestures, to inhabit objects differently. Whether it ends up on the sand of Newport Beach or in the hushed interior of a collector’s home makes little difference.
What truly matters is not the board itself, but the curve it draws — the trajectory of a kind of luxury that moves, almost silently, toward where it’s least expected.

And in the end, it is this alliance of passion and precision that serves those who often go unseen — those for whom the ocean, too, should be within reach.

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