It is just past 8:30 on Monday morning, a time of day and week that typically offers a reckoning of some sort. The phone rings once. Twice. I start considering the absurdity of my task: cold-calling a ...

Santa Barbara isn’t a big city, but it’s played an outsized role in the development of the surfboard industry. Since the 1960s, Santa Barbarans have created some of the most iconic boards, ...

The third issue of The Surfer (Surfer Magazine’s original title) was published in the summer of 1961. Founder John Severson shot the cover image of Reynolds Yater, stating that he snapped ...

When the first Polynesian felled a Koa tree to make a surfboard, our legacy and culture was placed in the hands of the artisans who shape our sacred crafts, and ultimately, the story of who we are.