Early hollow wooden surfboards, such as the "kook boxes" of the '30s, which were ostensibly lifeguard paddleboards, had some peripheral influence, but Hess' thinking was more directly shaped by ...

Skip "Andres" Kozminski lives to surf. He's been riding waves for the last half-century. But when the California native moved to the coast of Ecuador in 1972, there wasn't a surfboard to be found.

Making a surfboard from foam is of course very cool, but it does not have the tradition of “whiskey planks," which means it will forever be inferior to the process of building a wooden surfboard ...

Have you ever wanted to make your own surfboard, but felt held back by a lack of tools, materials, or the cost of it? Drawing almost entirely from what can be found at a well-known home improvement… ...

For most of the last 50 years, the primary sheep herder was Gordon “Grubby” Clark, who along with Hobie Alter pioneered the switch from wood to mass-produced, lightweight foam surfboards.

While most foam surfboards are made through a mostly subtractive process — “mowing” and cutting down a foam blank until it has been formed into a desired shape and thickness — Grain boards are built ...

I first saw the blanks at the Sustainable Surf Symposium at Daydream Surf Shop and they were vetted by none other than big wave legend Gary Linden who swears by their performance. Linden, who is ...

In the spring of 2005, while building a wooden boat in York, Mike LaVecchia pondered ways to use his boatbuilding skills to construct a wooden surfboard. "It just came to me one day," he says.

Few things are essential to surfers, but a polyurethane board is certainly one of them. And now that is threatened, many surfers fear, with the news this week that the manufacturer of foam blanks ...