For decades, the process of making a surfboard has more or less been the same: cut a piece of foam; put a wooden stringer down the middle to provide structure and strength; shape it, then wrap it in ...

GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA — Surfboard manufacturer Firewire Surfboards Ltd. has developed a new board design it says is more flexible than its predecessor designs. Firewire's Australian sales officer ...

Firewire’s new Rob Machado GO Fish model balances design and function to make the ultimate fish. This summer, I wanted a surfboard that would work in all conditions; I wanted a board that was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rob Machado did not build his latest surfboard model to be whipped around backside or launched into full rotations. But when the ...

This story is part of our Summer Gear Guide issue, covering everything from cold brew to grill hacks to the perfect outdoor projector. For the full list of stories, click here. Humans use wool for all ...

When he was a young man, Mark Price, the bespectacled South African CEO of Firewire, an eco-friendly surfboard maker based in Southern California, lived much of his life out of a suitcase, traveling ...

The 2019 Acumatica Summit is 1,600 attendees strong, up from 900 in 2018. There's more customers than ever to pester talk to, so I sit down with - a surfboard manufacturer. I've been called many ...

Pro surfer Pacha Light is among the first few to give the new boards a go. Photo/Supplied. A Kiwi surfboard shaper's serendipitous experiment with wool has led to a global partnership with one of the ...

When it comes to your surfboard, lighter is always better. (Well, unless we're talking big wave boards, but that's another story.) There's nothing worse than picking up a new performance blade and ...