Surfers will try anything to gain a performance advantage in the water. In fact, it's that sense of adventure and experimentation that has lead to some of surfboard design's greatest advancements.

Today, most surfboards are mass-produced fiberglass, but for many years, they were made of rich wood and carefully hand crafted. Today, most surfboards are mass produced and made out of fiberglass: a ...

A few months of sheltering in place was all a York-based manufacturer of surfboards needed to make the final touches on a new type of board. Grain Surfboards last week unveiled a new design called ...

Last blog, John Elwell, a friend of Bob Simmons during the last five or six years of his life, shared stories from this great innovator. Here is Elwell's discussion on the planing hull: Aspect ratio ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surfboards are getting better, more innovative and, in some cases, weirder. Take, for example, Koa Smith’s latest design from ...

Over the last few years, longtime surfer/shaper and longboard star CJ Nelson had an awakening of sorts — one that had a profound impact on him personally and trickled down to affect his business, his ...

The main reason to buy a custom surfboard is because you can’t find the board you want on a shelf. A custom surfboard is a big step in a surfer’s journey, and it can bring noticeable, tangible ...