Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the past year there’s been a steady uptick of a new type of surfboard that has been turning heads and making waves. If you ...

A few months of sheltering in place was all a York-based manufacturer of surfboards needed to make the final touches on a new type of board. Grain Surfboards last week unveiled a new design called ...

To find the headquarters of Grain Surfboards, turn away from the beach. Drive 10 minutes past the steepled church in York, Maine, past the clam shacks, past the farmstand that advertises Fresh Corn, ...

On a recent mid-winter day, the York barn-workshop for the wooden surfboard maker Grain Surfboards smells like sawdust and woodsmoke. On weekends, the workshop is often buzzing with classes, but ...

Mike LaVecchia likes his wooden surfboard because it’s a little heavier, and therefore a little faster, than conventional foam boards. And he likes the fact that wood is a renewable resource, so his ...

Surfboards are elongated platforms used by surfers to ride waves. They were originally invented in Hawaii, where they were referred to as "papa he’e nalu", and made of heavy local wood. Since then, ...

Wooden boards make up a minuscule portion of the surfboard sales worldwide, and it'll probably always be that way. Still, there are pockets of demand for wooden boards among collectors and surfers who ...

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 ...