Australian surfer and shaper Neal Purchase Jr. has combined the best parts of a single-fin and a twin-fin in a new surfboard design he calls the Duo. Neal Purchase Jr. (NPJ) is an Australian ...

A few days ago I got an email asking me when they first started putting fins on surfboards and who was the first person to do that. So I thought it would be fun to take a little look at the evolution ...

Of the myriad design elements that make up a surfboard, nothing affects performance quite as profoundly as fins. Consider this visual timeline and marvel at how the fin has so often changed the entire ...

While there’s no way to learn about fin configurations that compares with actually riding them, these are just some of the basics on surfboard fins. When looking at surfboard design and performance as ...

When Tom Blake took a stabilizing fin off a motorboat and bolted it to the bottom of his hollow surfboard at Waikiki in 1935, he set in motion a fascinating process of development and refinement that ...

When humans started riding surfboard-type vehicles towards the shore, whether it was in Hawaii or Peru, those first wave-riding craft were finless. The boards were simply pointed towards the shoreline ...

Marc in het Panhuis, associate dean of science, medicine and health at the University of Wollongong, believes he already has. Professor Panhuis reached his conclusion while researching another more ...

Marc in het Panhuis receives funding from the University of Wollongong Global Challenges programmes for research on 3D printed fins for surfboards. The University of Wollongong is seeking to ...