Surfing Waves

Eco surfboards go or no go

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Eco surf boards are becoming lighting and more progressive challenging the toxic ways of the past. Can the eco boards ever replace the old ways of the polyurethane foam blanks?

I myself am no saint I have two polyurethane boards but once I have saved up my next board will be a stylish danny hess 7-lbs wooden fish.

by eco board do you mean Epoxy?

By eco board I mean Bio Foam from the Eden project UK and Chris Hines from surfers against sewage headed the design team or the revolution of the wooden boards by people such as Danny Hess, David Cross, Linden also do a range I was surprised when I looked into it how many shapers there are trying to push the development with chamered style boards to give it a lighter weight. They have short boards that weigh 7lbs that are able to manage sizable swell, I'm going to give one a go and see how it performs. Just wondered what other people thought about the possible developments and or if they had one and recommend tham.

This is the first ive heard about it, I live in Cornwall and I had no idea Eden project had any hand in this sort of work
Let us know how it goes if you get your hands on a eco board

I am interested in this and paying attention so I can make a choice for when I next need a board.

Take care with the bio oil replacement products though - a lot of people (particularly in south america) have been heaved off their lands and left with nothing in order for companies grow crops for 'sustainable' biological alternatives to oil based products. Rainforests are being cleared for the land too I believe.

That's really interesting I didn't know about that is there a web site where I can reference that for my essay I'm going to interview some of the shapers for the wooden boards and I'm in the process of develop some questions for them. Some of the wooden shapers I have been reading about in Surfers Path have struggled with fixing the wooden chambers together saying that was the least green part of the process. But this deforestation is a new problem I haven't heard about in the process of green boards, it would great if the wood was only taken from sustainable forests Scandanavia manage their forests really well as 90% of their houses are wood. Mike Lavecchia has a buisness where if you are good with you hands you can buy it as a pack but I'm not sure of the source of wood but I'd love to have a go at shaping my boards something I'm going to look into in the future. But would want to make sure I wasn't involved in deforestation. I was reading that Gary Young has been making wooden boards since the 70s and Danny hess is taking that branch forwards.

the deforestation I refer to is in order to grow crops for bio oil, I havent hard anything in relation to deforestation for the wood for the boards. Ive read the same stuff in TSP

OK cheers, I'll see what I can dig up in my research thanks for posting

theres a limit to whats eco and then what works....

Been building boards for around 27 yrs and have seen a lot of the eco stuff come and go and re attempt at changing the industry.Whilst i'm in agreement that eco is good...bottom line is until the product is whiter,stronger ,cheaper and basically light years better..then i will not offer the product openly to any customers as a viable alternative.I'm hoping for the best,but we're a long shot from calling the eco stuff better.