The inside of a wooden surfboard looks like the skeleton of a fish. And it only gets more beautiful from there. The entire process of making a surfboard from wood (most surfboards are made from foam ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nestled between the woods and lobster boat-dotted coves in York, Maine, just 14km from the New Hampshire border, sits an unusual woodshop. In it, Mike LaVecchia and his team of 10 workers are turning ...

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 ...

Surfers with deep pockets looking for a new board, may be interested in this Rampant wooden surfboard that is now available to purchase for a cool $1.3 million. The Rampant surfboard has been created ...

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“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 ...

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. Now ...