Making a surfboard from foam is of course very cool, but it does not have the tradition of “whiskey planks," which means it will forever be inferior to the process of building a wooden surfboard.

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 ...

Wawa is a Muizenberg-based brand making wooden surfboards that pay homage to surfing’s Polynesian forefathers, celebrate ocean spirit and champion sustainable design.