Matt Calvani won the 18th annual Florida Shape-Off Champions Challenge at the Surf Expo event. Competitors were tasked with replicating a 1970s surfboard design by the late Charlie Bunger. Calvani's ...

When it comes to accuracy, when attempting to re-create the specifications of a surfboard design, there is a lot to it. Each of the eight skilled craftsmen who were invited to replicate the late ...

Five years ago, Patricio Guerrero was surfing the rolling waves of Santa Cruz when the leash on his board broke, sending it flying into a nearby cave and shattering its nose. As Guerrero worked on ...

Colorful creations were on display in Pismo Beach on Wednesday as the city wrapped up its Surfboard Decorating Contest. Since November, dozens of uniquely-decorated surfboards have been on display at ...

In a recent survey, the vast majority of surfers feel a personal responsibility for the health of the ocean. Now, a Santa Cruz company hopes to provide them with one way to surf in a more eco-friendly ...

For decades, friends of longtime Wichita Eagle columnist Bonnie Bing suggested she publish a book of her work. One person, Lisa Corbin, was rather insistent. “She was on it like a bonnet,” Bing said. ...

Travelers looking to catch the next wave in both U.S. surfing meccas and popular international surfing destinations will find it easier to travel with their own surfboard thanks to a new surfboard ...

The last confirmed sighting of the marine mammal in question, known as Otter 841, was in May 2024. However, surfers reported multiple otter-related incidents in October 2025, suggesting she might be ...

Stealing surfboards, nipping feet, even chasing down surfers: “Our local sea otters—or possibly just one—are getting feisty again,” California photographer Mark Woodward tells Smithsonian magazine via ...

Two years after Otter 841 menaced wave riders near Santa Cruz, there have been new encounters between the furry marine mammals and surfers. By Annie Roth Annie Roth lives in Santa Cruz, Calif., wrote ...

We're less than a month from the start of the college basketball season, and this week, observant roster-divers made an incoming Vanderbilt basketball player go viral. Chandler Bing — yes, you read ...