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 ...

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Getting your homemade surfboard noticed in this town full of surfboard shapers is about as easy as getting barreled your first time surfing. That is, unless you have a board that rails the edges ...

Building surfboards brings together their knowledge of boats, wood and surfing. LaVecchia once ran a charter sailboat company on Lake Champlain and later oversaw the construction of a full-scale ...

Familiar Faces – an introduction to some of the less than well-known, but familiar York faces. YORK — What does a surf shop in coastal Maine do in the middle of winter? Make boards, of course, and ...

Surfers are some of the most ardent environmentalists, yet their sport is awash in petrochemicals and carcinogens, from neoprene wetsuits and urethane leashes to polyurethane boards and epoxy. Danny ...