Just a note to those of you who read me but don’t surf: We use wax on the top of our boards to keep us from slipping off. It’s not like on skis where you use it on the bottoms to go faster. OK, just ...

When the sun is out and the surf forecast is good, you might want to just grab your surfboard and go. But not so fast — is your surfboard as ready as you are to hit the water? Without proper surfboard ...