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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Somewhere in California, Florida or Hawaii someone is painstakingly sculpting a block of polyurethane foam into one of the most unique products the United States has ever produced: a surfboard. Using ...

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.Last week Gordon “Grubby” Clark ...

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 ...

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, ...