When Tom Blake took a stabilizing fin off a motorboat and bolted it to the bottom of his hollow surfboard at Waikiki in 1935, he set in motion a fascinating process of development and refinement that ...

While there’s no way to learn about fin configurations that compares with actually riding them, these are just some of the basics on surfboard fins. When looking at surfboard design and performance as ...

View post: What It's Like Traveling to Nuuk, Greenland, as a U.S. Tourist: 12 Tips for an Arctic Adventure If you’ve read an article on surfboards in the last year, chances are it had something to do ...

According to Gerhard Tevini from Krunk Surfing in Austria, surfers know the scenario all too well – the fins of your surfboard have to be screwed off when traveling or on the way to the waves. You ...

Switzerland can hardly be described as an ideal location for developments in surfboard applications, since it is a landlocked country, far from prime marine surfing locations and a high wage-cost ...

While pretty much all surfboards have fins that improve their directional stability, those fins are typically fixed in one position. Dilling SurfCraft boards are different, though, in that their fin ...

Dmitri Kozhevnikov looked out to the water at San Onofre State Beach, where a high tide and lack of swell made for gutless conditions with only small waves rolling through. “It’s perfect,” he said ...

A structural element, usually made of wood or fiberglass, attached to the bottom of a surfboard to aid maneuverability. Fins were first introduced in 1935 by Tom Blake, who fastened a speedboat keel ...

Materials supplier Syensqo’s Ixef polyaryl amide (PARA) resin has been adopted by Drake Plastics for molding the innovative Kohola FlowTech 1 Single Fin, which enhances the flow control and efficient ...

To catch a sweet ride, surfers rely heavily on two things: the waves, and their board. Surfers can order surfboards that are customised to their needs, or choose from a range of pre-made boards, with ...