The post The Best Soft-Top Foam Surfboards of 2024 first appeared on The Inertia. ... Costco’s iconic blue and white (and yes, Rasta colors, too) will always be the Grandaddy of foamies.

Foam and fiberglass composite surfboards made their debut in the 1940s after World War II accelerated innovation on construction materials. Fiberglass fins were introduced in the 1960s, replacing ...

Michael Takayama of Michael Surfboards specializes in shaping longboards. By Alexandra Cheney OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Inside the 128-square-foot shaping bay at Michael Surfboards, family history and ...

Polyurethane. The most traditional foam used to build surfboards, shapers have been using Polyurethane ever since Grubby Clark first cracked the chemical code back in the 1950s.