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.

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Amelia Martin was on a missionary trip to Haiti in 2019 when she noticed something that upset her: an avid surfer, she was struck by the pollution in the ocean and on a local beach. She said it ...

The surfer-shaper relationship is as old as the sport itself. Somebody had to make all those surfboards, after all. From the Dick Brewer/Gerry Lopez relationship, to Occy and Rusty, and Tom Curren and ...

Think 'surfing' and that might not prompt vision of people riding waves in the Great Lakes. Imagining surfboards being produced in the fresh water basin may be even harder. But a Milwaukee, Wisconsin ...

The Great Lakes don't readily evoke images of surfing and surfboard-making, but a surfer in Wisconsin is on an eco-friendly mission to change that. Surfers spend a lot of time in the water, so they ...

Gowing Bros Limited (Gowings), an investment company, has identified a market opportunity for such a travel surfboard, planning to turn the vision into a reality in partnership with its brands Gowings ...