Mowing chunks of foam into neatly hand-crafted surfboards is an art-form. The somewhat modern introduction of lighter-cored surfboards has been a shaping revolution, offering more ways to whip up ...

Last blog, John Elwell, a friend of Bob Simmons during the last five or six years of his life, shared stories from this great innovator. Here is Elwell's discussion on the planing hull: Aspect ratio ...