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.

Amelia Martin was on a missionary trip to Haiti in 2019 when she noticed something that upset her: an avid surfer, she was struck by the pollution in the ocean and on a local beach. She said it ...

It wasn’t long ago that the soft-top surfboard was scoffed at, used only by novices. A surfer on a soft top was either a beginner just learning to navigate the whitewash or they were a “kook,” a ...