“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...