Six months after losing one of its largest suppliers, the surfboard industry is showing its resilience. Some insiders even think the change has been good for surfing. Dozens of start-ups are working ...

When it comes to commitment, Ryan Harris has been all in on the pursuit of building a more sustainable surfboard for a long time. Whittling away his days in his Los Angeles shaping bay, from the ...

The more I’ve learned about alternative surfboard manufacturing, the more I become impressed by the innovation and ingenuity popping up around the world–whether it’s a seaweed and beeswax resin board ...

NSW south coast boardmaker Jed Done is a long term customer of Surfblanks. That means he has a spot in the line for blanks. At the start of October, he put in an order for 30 blanks — unusually large ...

While the frigid water and rocky coast has never made Maine a hotspot in the surfing world, independent surfboard makers like Ogunquit-based Kirk Stockhaus and a handful of surf shops along the coast ...

Monday December 5th, 2005 was a dark day at shaping bays and in surf shops around the country. Orange County-based Clark Foam -- far and away the world's largest supplier of surfboard blanks -- shut ...

With the world’s largest maker of foam surfboard blanks abruptly closing, many board shapers are left scrambling for the materials needed for their craft, livelihoods.FOR THE RECORD A story in the Dec ...

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 ...