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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SANTA CRUZ >> On the whole, surfers are generally a pretty eco-conscious bunch. After all, it’s in their best interests for the ocean to be clean when they are literally immersed in it. Yet no matter ...

Taking up surfing as a career or a hobby is a move that requires gut-wrenching hard work to transition from beginner to expert over time. Growing from a full-time catching and riding prone beginner ...

After 44 consecutive years in business, Gordon “Grubby” Clark, closed his doors for good. Clark’s company, Clark Foam, once produced most of America’s surfboard blanks, the foam cores essential to ...

Expanded polystyrene foam, typically used in everything from packaging for new TVs to carry-out food containers, but Jeffrey McNaught, owner of Edgewater Surf in Rocky River, found an eco-friendly use ...

There are more surfboard materials available to the consumer today than ever before in the history of the sport. Over the last several years the surfboard business has hit an all-time high with demand ...

America may run on Dunkin’. But Korey Nolan? He surfs on it off the Atlantic Coast. The 32-year-old New Hampshire resident is the creator of an award-winning surfboard that he custom built using ...