Abstract: In a surfboard of the type including spaced-apart top and bottom surfaces and an elongated recess formed therebetween for removably anchoring the base of a surfboard fin therein, a shallow draft surfboard fin socket for location in the recess in bonded engagement therewith including an elongated housing including a narrow bottom wall, spaced-apart upstanding elongated side walls, and spaced-apart upstanding short front and rear end walls, all joined together along their intersecting marginal edges to form an elongated cavity configured to receive therein the base of the fin, a flange extending outward from the side and end walls for location between the top and bottom surfboard surfaces, the housing side and end walls extending above the flange a distance sufficient to locate the upper marginal edges of the walls above the bottom surface of the surfboard and, first and second recesses formed in the front and rear housing walls respectively, interior the cavity, for receipt therein of a protrusion, formed at t