“You could probably break it down and smoke it once you’ve finished riding her” Surfboard manufacturers never stop tinkering with their designs, adding a bit more volume here, pinching the rail there, experimenting with the tail shape, rocker, and so on, to find the recipe for the elusive ‘magic board’.
It wasn’t long after chemists formulated the materials when surfboard manufacturers realised that the combo of carefully shaped polyurethane blank with a wooden stringer for strength, covered in a composite of fibreglass impregnated with polyester resin, worked perfectly. And due to popular demand, that became the industry standard for decades.
The world turned and turned some more, getting dustier and more polluted along the way, before an increasing portion of the planet’s population began to take notice of the effects…
