The Uluwatu Surf Villas are perched atop one of the most beautiful properties in the world, overlooking the most famous wave in Indonesia. With so many talented surfers and shapers coming through the ...

SANTA CRUZ — Doug Haut has done a lot to shape the surfing culture of Santa Cruz, in more ways than one. In the literal sense, he has constructed, or “shaped,” an estimated 30,000-plus surfboards ...

When it comes to the art of surfboard shaping — there is no such thing as “too old” to continue your craft. That statement proved to be fact at this year's Florida Shape Off held at the Orlando ...

Behind every great wave rider is a shaper—and here on the First Coast, few names resonate like Whisnant. A longtime fixture in the local surf scene, Whisnant Surfboards are more than just ...

The surfer-shaper relationship is as old as the sport itself. Somebody had to make all those surfboards, after all. From the Dick Brewer/Gerry Lopez relationship, to Occy and Rusty, and Tom Curren and ...

Few people in this vast realm of surfing can say they’ve had a hand in shaping the sport (quite literally) for more than half a century. But legendary La Jolla-based board builder Rusty Preisendorfer ...