In some way, I have been a teacher for most of my adult life. Long ago it was as a ship’s officer aboard educational and research vessels teaching young people lessons in seamanship, navigation and being a good shipmate. More recently it was at the University of New Hampshire teaching condensed courses in GIS. So […]

I recently returned from a surf trip to Alaska with pro surfer and Grain Surfboards poster boy, Ben McBrien. Back in the early months of ‘06 Ben spent many weeks in our basement banging his head and building the first two 5′4 Waka’s ever. Lucky for us Ben brought his board along for the trip […]

Brad has just finished building one of our newest designs to date, and we think it’s going to turn some heads. Our friend, who sails as a chief mate on oil tankers, asked us to build him a custom longboard suited for our local conditions and well as to his physical size and style of […]