While not exactly world-famous right now, David Barr might one day become a household name. The Oceanside shaper’s recent innovation — interchangeable tail options, plugged in and out of the tail ...

Autographed surfboard from 2008 premiere of 'Bustin’ Down the Door' now at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. (Courtesy photo) The Santa Barbara Maritime ...

Australian surfer and shaper Neal Purchase Jr. has combined the best parts of a single-fin and a twin-fin in a new surfboard design he calls the Duo. Neal Purchase Jr. (NPJ) is an Australian ...

A few days ago I got an email asking me when they first started putting fins on surfboards and who was the first person to do that. So I thought it would be fun to take a little look at the evolution ...

Surfboard design is an important thing. I’m of the belief that any surfer, with enough time, can learn to ride nearly any surfboard and learn to ride it well, but understanding the basics of how a ...

While pretty much all surfboards have fins that improve their directional stability, those fins are typically fixed in one position. Dilling SurfCraft boards are different, though, in that their fin ...

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While there’s no way to learn about fin configurations that compares with actually riding them, these are just some of the basics on surfboard fins. When looking at surfboard design and performance as ...

When humans started riding surfboard-type vehicles towards the shore, whether it was in Hawaii or Peru, those first wave-riding craft were finless. The boards were simply pointed towards the shoreline ...

A group of surfers, including two who lost limbs in shark attacks, are promoting a surfboard fin aimed at stopping shark culls. To be manufactured in the Victorian surf town of Torquay, the ...

“When FCS mentioned to me there’s a possibility that we could do a signature fin, I think as a surfer that’s one of the things you dream of,” said Mason Ho, who soaks up surf lore and knowledge like a ...

No one said this sport was safe. All of us have heard about cut lips or black eyes from surfboards wacking their owners in the face. I once took a fin to my upper thigh and had a bruise for weeks. But ...