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 ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

If you want something to look elegant, you build it out of wood. If you want it to look cutting-edge, on the other hand, you make it out of carbon fiber. So, what happens when you combine the two ...

When Mike LaVecchia talks about his profession, he sounds like a man entranced. “Surfing just kind of takes over,” he says. “Once you start getting into it, it’s a hard thing not to think about all ...

YORK, Maine - When the surf's up, you can find Mike LaVecchia and Rich Blundell carving the waves at York Beach, even in winter. Their surfboards, however, are nothing like the fiberglass-over-foam ...

Long before surfboards became the slick sticks you see today, they were heavy wooden monstrosities wielded by an elite group of cut-up watermen. “There was a power to handling those boards,” said ...

While everyone is trying to do their bit to chuck the plastic off their lives, South African surfers try hard not to be lagging behind. While plastic surfboards are the most convenient because they ...

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 ...

The first men and women to ride froth-tipped waves off the coast of Hawaii and other Polynesian Islands did so on planks of wood. They were heavy and difficult to handle, but these early surfers laid ...