To find the headquarters of Grain Surfboards, turn away from the beach. Drive 10 minutes past the steepled church in York, Maine, past the clam shacks, past the farmstand that advertises Fresh Corn, ...
The woodpile in Martijn Stiphout’s Aptos workshop is an assortment of curiosities, with lumber salvaged from a Victorian mansion, a guitar maker’s scrap heap and the ashes of beach bonfires. Stiphout, ...
Step into the workshops of most surfboard-makers and you'll find a fluffy, snowlike layer of polyurethane foam under your feet. The floor of Danny Hess' Outer Sunset garage is covered with sawdust. As ...