(Inside Science) -- More people are hitting the beach with surfboards in tow these days. The Surf Industry Manufacturers Association estimates there were 2.5 million surfers in the U.S. alone in 2016, ...

“When FCS mentioned to me there’s a possibility that we could do a signature fin, I think as a surfer that’s one of the things you dream of,” said Mason Ho, who soaks up surf lore and knowledge like a ...

A pair of entrepreneurs have developed a new conversion kit known as the Boost Surfing Fin that promises to help surfers spend less time paddling and more time surfing. Dmitri Kozhevnikov and Alexei ...

While pretty much all surfboards have fins that improve their directional stability, those fins are typically fixed in one position. Dilling SurfCraft boards are different, though, in that their fin ...

Surfer and mechanical engineer Alex Ostanin, has created a new electric motorised surfboard fin aptly named the Boost Surfing Fin. Designed to provide an easily attachable electric fin to help surfers ...

Surfers have been experimenting with fins ever since Tom Blake commandeered a keel off an abandoned speedboat and screwed it into the bottom of a paddleboard in 1935. In the century that followed, ...

Unless you’re an expert in hydrodynamics, you’re probably confused about fins. You might know about flex and rake and drag – if you don’t, here’s a crash course – but do you really understand why ...