"Shaping Surf History: Tom Curren and Al Merrick, California 1980-1983" by surf photographer Jimmy Metyko has hit the market. And eleven-time world champ Kelly Slater thinks surf history buffs will ...

Geoff McCoy, one of surfboard shaping’s most creative minds from the early shortboard era, has died at home in Byron Bay, Australia. He was 79 years old. As news of the legendary board-builder’s ...

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, ...

The Uluwatu Surf Villas are perched atop one of the most beautiful properties in the world, overlooking the most famous wave in Indonesia. With so many talented surfers and shapers coming through the ...

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 ...

ORLANDO — More than 20 years ago two friends and surfers, Roy Turner, then an owner of a North Carolina Surf Shop, and Mick Duncan came together to form the non-profit 501(3) BRH, Board of Retailers ...

When it comes to the art of surfboard shaping — there is no such thing as “too old” to continue your craft. That statement proved to be fact at this year's Florida Shape Off held at the Orlando ...

It’s been nearly two months since Lahaina was devastated by wildfires, and the situation remains desperate for Maui residents. According to local shaper Josh Weisfeld of JAW Surfboards, Lahaina is ...

[Noozhawk’s note: Gregg Tally was misidentified in an earlier version of this story. The article has been updated below.] It was Gregg Tally’s mother who introduced him to surfing. “She was a beach ...

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