For decades, Gordon Clark and his company Clark Foam held an almost complete monopoly on the surfboard blank market. “Blanks” are pieces of foam with reinforcing wood strips (called ...

Have you ever wanted to make your own surfboard ... a trick for gluing the blank back together without it buckling, and that trick is ratchet straps. He cuts the foam into roughly the right ...

After Clark Foam closed in 2005, which had a virtual stranglehold on the surfboard blank business, more environmentally sensitive materials began to enter the marketplace. Related: These Women Are ...