DIY 1939: BUILD A HOLLOW SURFBOARD

"Improved Hollow Surfboard for All-Around Sport" ran in the June 1939 issue of Popular Science. The text below is slightly edited and shortened, and some of the fractions have been converted to decimals. * * * Native Hawaiians taught Tom Blake to ride the waves, but he wasn't satisfied with their crude boards. After years of experimenting, he developed the modern hollow surfboard, now used not o...

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