Research notes
Behind the pages.
This portfolio draws on brand archives, published interviews, and family-supplied background. Archival material is linked to its original publisher.
- Workshop portraits, board details, and finishing photographs supplied by Sean’s family. Doorway portrait: Ryan “Chachi” Craig (credited in the supplied original filename). Other individual photographer credits await confirmation.
- Hydrocraft: Sean’s biography and shaping-bay photographs. Photographs remain the property of their respective owners; individual photographer credits were not supplied on the reviewed page.
- Hydrocraft: current foilboard range and design credit.
- American Windsurfer, Vol. 10.1: “Sean Ordóñez — Mind Behind the Grind.” Eight original spreads reproduced in the private design preview. Copyright remains with the publisher and credited photographers. Archival images shown on project pages document Sean’s career, not necessarily the specific project.
- Hot Sails Maui, 2002: SO sail.
- Lift Foils: 2023 surf and wind board lineup.
- SURFER: What She Rode — Paige Alms and the SOS Sushi. Gun photograph: Tracy LeBoe.
- Foiling Magazine: Lift Sean Ordóñez Collection. Signature collection reporting. Lift project image comes from Lift’s official 2023 board-lineup article.
Private portfolio preview. Photo and magazine reproduction permissions need confirmation before public launch. Additional family photographs can replace or supplement these sourced images.
Lift action photograph: Lift Foils · Surf Foils. Rider and board model are not identified on the source page.
Windsurfing cover: cropped photographic detail from American Windsurfer’s Sean Ordóñez profile. Sail-design cover: photographic detail from the same American Windsurfer profile. The project gallery also includes Hot Sails Maui’s 2002 SO signature sail.