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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Back in December, 2005, the price of a custom surfboard shot up by $200 in surf shops across the country almost overnight. The reason? Surfboard shapers had panicked, reacting to news that Clark Foam, ...

Surfboards have undergone radical development and improvement since ancient Hawaiians who created the sport fashioned ridable 16-foot planks from local wiliwili and koa trees. Today’s high-performance ...

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 ...