Maine boatbuilding + Polynesian surfing = wow:Grain Surfboards

We have run into Grain Surfboards before. They are a York,ME-based shop that builds –and teaches the building of –custom wooden surfboards. Makes you go “hmmm”,eh? Surf shop…in Maine…and wooden? Well,its true,and the results are impressive (check out their Grain Gallery) –remember that boards were originally solid wood.

The Grain boards use a “rail”internal structure (a single longitudinal piece with spaced frames) and then effectively strip-build the board on this frame (though they don’t follow the exact approach one would use for a kayak or canoe –the deck strips are much wider). We don’t surf here at Chine bLog –perhaps we should –but I love that these guys are running this shop and teaching others along the way.

I was reminded of Grain again with a nice article in the latest Outside Magazine. One of their writers joined a class and wrote about the experience. He had done no prior building and portrayed himself as fairly un-handy in general,but he had the boatbuilder’s eureka moment at the end. Its a good read.

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