Shaping a surfboard with ones own hands is sure to be high on the bucket list of any surfer you know. That's where Shaper Supply Co.'s "Shaping School" comes in, a four-hour introductory lesson on ...

FLORENCE - It's midafternoon on a sunny, blustery day on the Oregon Coast. Too windy for surfing, which means there's a good likelihood that you'll find Cort Gion sporting a resin-stained T-shirt and ...

SANTA CRUZ — Doug Haut has done a lot to shape the surfing culture of Santa Cruz, in more ways than one. In the literal sense, he has constructed, or “shaped,” an estimated 30,000-plus surfboards ...

In the early 1960s, surf shops, which had been little more than beach shacks where balsawood blanks were sculpted into surfboards, were replaced by storefronts where surfboards were sold along with ...

Behind every great wave rider is a shaper—and here on the First Coast, few names resonate like Whisnant. A longtime fixture in the local surf scene, Whisnant Surfboards are more than just ...

Santa Barbara isn’t a big city, but it’s played an outsized role in the development of the surfboard industry. Since the 1960s, Santa Barbarans have created some of the most iconic boards, ...

Wielding a balance ruler the size of a small child, Al Merrick scrupulously examined the minutiae in the foam blanks. Like a Moroccan merchant, the Santa Barbara shaping legend inspected the goods ...

Since 1969, Channel Islands Surfboards has been dedicated to performance and quality through hard work, innovation, and originality. Over the last 42 years, Channel Islands has grown from a local ...

The next great salute to surfing hits movie screens today with a promise to chill and thrill as viewers take in the roar of the ocean, the towering waves and the strong men and women who conquer them.

The surfer-shaper relationship is as old as the sport itself. Somebody had to make all those surfboards, after all. From the Dick Brewer/Gerry Lopez relationship, to Occy and Rusty, and Tom Curren and ...

For a surfboard shaper, getting to work for Channel Islands Surfboards is something like heaven. That’s why Dru McDaniel disappeared from Wilmington nearly three years ago. One month he was putting ...

Santa Barbara isn’t a big city, but it’s played an outsized role in the development of the surfboard industry. Since the 1960s, Santa Barbarans have created some of the most iconic boards, ...