Fifty years ago, one of the world’s best traditional surfboard makers signed a deal to build and sell one of surfing’s most radical and least understood surfboard designs. Incredibly, both prospered.

Folks have been surfing on the East Coast for more than a century, with Burke Haywood Bridgers being documented as hanging ten in 1909 in Wrightsville Beach. Today, the surf culture is strong on the ...

Pro surfers say that you know a good board when you hold it under your arm--that somehow the magic reveals itself. I fell in love with a board, while just looking at her in the rack in a surf shop in ...