How Reel Skipper Grew Beyond Fishing to Surf, Greater Outdoors
Reel Skipper’s founders talk building a women’s performance fishing brand that has managed to snag attention from surf…
News July 7, 2023
Latest In: Island Water Sports
Island Water Sports Snaps Up Epic Surf Shop
The purchase, along with the acquisition of Epic’s former building, expands IWS to downtown Delray Beach in Florida.
News May 19, 2023
What’s Selling at Island Water Sports
The Cottrells on hot-selling brands and categories, a skateboard slowdown, flight to quality, and customer love for color…
News April 11, 2023
Spring Break Specialty Retail Report from Florida
SES checked in with six retailers this week to get a sense of what brands and categories are…
News April 3, 2023
Indies Trader Apparel Now Available Through Island Water Sports
The current line is represented in-store and there will be a small fleece and long sleeve injection line…
Press Releases January 19, 2022
Core Retailers Discuss their Wild 2020 Ride
We followed up with our panel of retailers to find out how 2020 turned out given the many…
News December 22, 2020
Bright Spots Emerge at Core Retail
While not universal, we have been hearing some very encouraging early reports from several core retailers about how…
News May 27, 2020
Key Florida Retailer Details the Current Wild World of Retail
Island Water Sports Partner Cheyne Cottrell shares with us the crazy rollercoaster of the past few weeks and…
News March 16, 2020
Island Water Sports Honors Shooting Victims
We talk with Co-Owner Linsey Cottrell about the paddle-out the shop hosted on Sunday for the community in…
News February 27, 2018
