I asked about a year ago, but thought I would try to tap the hive mind again..<BR><BR>I used to shape and glass surfboards as a hobby about 8 years ago. I would shape boards for all my friends and ...

Two different surfboard blanks, two different feels. Here's which one might work for you.

Nothing in Wilson Zehr's background- suggests he is a surfer dude. Serial software entrepreneur, yes. Dude, no. But Zehr is wading into the world of surfboard manufacturing, confident he is correctly ...

Hobie Alter could have called it quits after his first surfboard, crafted from a heavy balsa wood in his father’s Laguna Beach garage. But, “he didn’t like that board,” said Dick Metz, who had met ...

Skip "Andres" Kozminski lives to surf. He's been riding waves for the last half-century. But when the California native moved to the coast of Ecuador in 1972, there wasn't a surfboard to be found. Now ...

Callused hands have shaped boards for decades at the San Juan Capistrano workshop of Hobie Designs Inc., a pioneer in the quintessentially Southern California surf industry. But increasingly those ...

Hobie Alter could have called it quits after his first surfboard, crafted from a heavy balsa wood in his father’s Laguna Beach garage. But, “he didn’t like that board,” said Dick Metz, who had met ...