A surfboard is constructed to have a soft deck by forming a lower body of a rigid foam material covered with a fiberglass resin coating and forming a deck insert of resilient foam material secured to the deck of the lower body and covered by a flexible impervious covering. The method of making the surfboard includes the shaping and covering of the lower body, the shaping and application to the upper deck of a resilient foam material and the covering of the foam material with a flexible impervious cover.
