Wooden Boat magazine recently published a pair of articles on surfboards: one featuring Grain Surfboards; the other an overview of surfboard history. Both articles had some shortcomings about which, as a long-time subscriber, I plan to write about to WB. The problem with the article on Grain was that they failed to mention Paul Jensen and others who are trying to make a go of HWS as a business. I plan to include a list including Paul and others in my letter. My problem is that even doing searches for threads on HWS, it is pretty difficult to figure out who is seriously in the business, and who is just a hobbyist, without reading each and every post in its entirety. I am confining this to strictly HWS building methods. Solid wood, balsa veneered EPS, and other techniques undoubtedly have merit, but the scope of the article clearly was HWS, and straying outside that line will decrease the probability that WB will choose to publish the letter. Here is the list that I have come up with so far for those who are seriously pursuing HWS boards as a business. If you belong on the list, or know someone who does, don’t get mad, post. Also, brief information about when you started doing this method, and approximate volume per year, and official DBA name would be helpful (ditto for those already listed). I plan to close this list on 7/6, so that I can get the letter off in a reasonable period of time.
Paul Jensen “Jensen Surfboards”
Plumeria Surfboards “North Shore Woodies”
Roy Stewart “Olosurfer”
Daniel Hess “Hess Surfboards”
PierreB
Balsa?
jstephen?
-Samiam
