Get out from behind that screen and build something with your hands this summer. How about a beautiful wooden surfboard? Before fiberglass and foam surfboards, there was wood. Surfers made boards from ...

In the spring of 2005, while building a wooden boat in York, Mike LaVecchia pondered ways to use his boatbuilding skills to construct a wooden surfboard. "It just came to me one day," he says. The ...

The inside of a wooden surfboard looks like the skeleton of a fish. And it only gets more beautiful from there. The entire process of making a surfboard from wood (most surfboards are made from foam ...

SAYVILLE, Long Island (WABC) -- At just 16, Michael Becker was making surfboards in his backyard with his parents financing his project. Now he has his own shop "Nature's Shapes" making custom boards.

YORK - Grain Surfboards recently announced the opening of a new woodworking shop where anyone of any age can build their own wood surfboard under the guidance of experienced craftsmen. The new ...

Long before surfboards became the slick sticks you see today, they were heavy wooden monstrosities wielded by an elite group of cut-up watermen. “There was a power to handling those boards,” said ...

Building surfboards brings together their knowledge of boats, wood and surfing. LaVecchia once ran a charter sailboat company on Lake Champlain and later oversaw the construction of a full-scale ...

Mike Sheldrake makes surfboards, but he does it with a material most wouldn’t mix with water – cardboard. The unconventional cardboard surfboard idea came to Sheldrake 10 years ago after he quit his ...

Surfers are some of the most ardent environmentalists, yet their sport is awash in petrochemicals and carcinogens, from neoprene wetsuits and urethane leashes to polyurethane boards and epoxy. Danny ...

Familiar Faces – an introduction to some of the less than well-known, but familiar York faces. YORK — What does a surf shop in coastal Maine do in the middle of winter? Make boards, of course, and ...

The art of playing in harmony with the ocean is something Native Hawaiians have done for centuries. It’s called surfing nowadays, but the ancient Hawaiians said he’e nalu, or “wave sliding.” It was ...