A couple of on-line stirrings regarding modern surfboard design, found on the World Wide Web...
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Roger Kelly forwarded this treatise on the shortcomings of contemporary big wave design.
It's a long read -- and pretty technical -- but that allows author Donn Ito gets to the heart of the flaws of flat bottom surfboards in big surf.
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Glenn Sakamoto also turned up this short piece from the Surfer Magazine site on the fading grandeur of thrusters in everyday surfing.
It's interesting that it took so long -- over 3 decades -- for the media to catch up!
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