Reporter Andy Price tries out a homemade surfboard at Perranporth on Cornwall’s north coast. A local enthusiast puts marine paint to plywood and comes up with a design. It is about sourcing the right raw materials and fashioning a board from mahogany plywood, bending it and using marine paint to finish and decorate it. Local manufacturers came up with similar style boards and many holidaymakers would buy cheap plywood boards and partake in a spot of amateur surfing.