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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 ...

There are plenty of places in the Bay Area where you can buy a surfboard. And almost as many that offer customized boards, where you meet with the shaper and discuss the specific dimensions of a board ...

For decades, Gordon Clark and his company Clark Foam held an almost complete monopoly on the surfboard blank market. “Blanks” are pieces of foam with reinforcing wood strips (called “stringers”) in a ...