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Grain Surfboards { INTERVIEW WITH MIKE LAVECCHIA & BRAD ANDERSON}
YORK, MAINE, U.S.A.
Surrounded by quiet, rural farmland and tucked
away in the northernmost state of the United
States, it’s hard to imagine a more unlikely loca-
tion for a surfboard manufacturer. But Grain
Surfboards is unique in other ways as well.
Co-owned by Mike LaVecchia and Brad Anderson,
Grain’s craftsmen build wooden surfboards, using
traditional wood-shaping tools and techniques
on ecofriendly, locally harvested and sustainable
wood. By combining ...