CODE Foils

Foil brand built by the Tardrew family, a frequent presence in the later catalogue.

• Origins and team with Ben Tardrew and Marcus Tardrew (Ep 82), and a techy round with Dan Juengling & Ben Tardrew on the X-series foil, fuses, tails and a Code/FoilDrive integrated mast (Ep 118).
• Early venture chat via James Casey (Ep 28); Josh Ku holds the marketing role at Code (Ep 89). The hosts hung out with the “Code boys” in Cornwall (Ep 106).

Ripple additions (batch 2, 2026-07-20)

• Tiesda You (Starboard, Ep 110) pushes back on the idea that small brands struggle to find manufacturing suppliers; his experience is factories are generally hungry for smaller customers too.
• Ep 135 (Jorrit Buurma, tentative/unconfirmed): possibly the ‘Jan from Gore’ collaborator on Appletree’s Radix mast project — brand name garbled in transcript.