During the past week, a group of five people have set out on the task of building their own stand-up paddleboards. It’s a process that is usually done by hobbyists on afternoons and weekends over a ...

Jason Thelen's paddleboards are like floating works of art: long, wide planks of hand-milled wood the color of honey, caramel and brown sugar, kept simple with clean lines or adorned with intricate ...

For Brent Ruby, building stand-up paddleboards is even better than cruising them across the surface of a calm lake through a mystical morning fog. He says the "organized biological chaos" in the ...