When those looking to get some summer waves go searching our Island’s shops for a new surfboard, they will have a greater choice than at any other point in the sport’s history. From the dawn of surfing until fairly recently, shops stocked boards according to the era. That tended to be pretty narrow until the mid 2000s, when surfboard design grew outward in every direction. And growing the fastest is the number of mid-length surfboards available.

Today, surfers can choose from boards of every era, or ones that combine specific aspects of different decades.