“Surfers are so connected to nature, but they’re divorced from the impact foam boards have on the environment,” says Brad Anderson, cofounder of Grain Surfboards. To build a better board, he and ...

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. The ...

A New Zealand-based surfboard shaper has taken the wraps off what may be the world's most expensive log. Along with a whole lot of sandpaper, Roy Stuart's stunning Rampant wooden surfboard was shaped ...

From heavy wooden planks to sleek foam shortboards, surfboard design has constantly evolved — and now it’s taking a sustainable turn. Innovators are replacing petroleum-based materials with natural, ...

To find the headquarters of Grain Surfboards, turn away from the beach. Drive 10 minutes past the steepled church in York, Maine, past the clam shacks, past the farmstand that advertises Fresh Corn, ...

Getting your homemade surfboard noticed in this town full of surfboard shapers is about as easy as getting barreled your first time surfing. That is, unless you have a board that rails the edges ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- Carson Brown thinks surfing the Lake Michigan waves should be plastic-free. It is part of the reason he makes wooden surfboards. Brown, a graduate student at the University of ...

The woodpile in Martijn Stiphout’s Aptos workshop is an assortment of curiosities, with lumber salvaged from a Victorian mansion, a guitar maker’s scrap heap and the ashes of beach bonfires. Stiphout, ...

Step into the workshops of most surfboard-makers and you'll find a fluffy, snowlike layer of polyurethane foam under your feet. The floor of Danny Hess' Outer Sunset garage is covered with sawdust. As ...