Hi all I would appreciate your advice
I'm 6 ft and 108kg, been surfing for over 20 years on mainly fish surfboards (sub 7ft) and supping for 3-4 years(intermediate to advanced). I have a Al merrick 9'1 Caddie which is 30 inch's wide and 136 l of float. I find this board great if the conditions are clean but a bit tippy if there is a chop on the wave.

I'm looking for a quad board with a bit more stability and to come down in size.
My normal wave is a beach break with medium power.
Im interested in the

Naish Hokua x32 (8'8)

JP Surf Wide Body (8'8)

Starboard Widepoint (8'10) I have been told that these are very stiff boards?

All boards in Carbon or the pro finish models.

I have read some of the articles on these boards but all the riders seem to be between 85kg and 100kg.


Any advice would be greatly appreciated from those with experience on these boards

Steve

Hi All,

Currently I am on a LSD 8.10 x 29, 115liters and I weigh about 75kg, advanced intermediate I like to think...lol
Great board, stable, super strong (shows no wear whatsoever which is amazing as this is my first board)
It goes great when the surf is up but feels a bit sluggish on the smaller stuff. It just needs a bit more speed before it kicks in.
Usually we get a semi clean beach break 1-4ft. Not very powerful.

Yesterday I got about 10 minutes on the 2015 starboard airborne 7"4. That was 85 liters and felt like very hard work and I figure will be too small if it gets a bit choppy. I can handle a fair bit of chop on my current set up. Once on the wave though, holy cow that made me think. So I am now the search is on for a board that is very dynamic and playful on the wave and biased towards handling the beach mush. I don't mind if it therefore flunks on big days. Maybe the bigger Airborne? Keen to get:
- Suggestions on other brands and types.
- Experience you may have with those boards
- Experience with a similar transition ( and did you go down a lot in volume)

bring it on!!
cheers
Rene

In an interesting move Jimmy Lewis is going to bring some models out in carbon. Will be interesting to see how they stack up to his high quality sandwich boards.

Hope to get one of these in carbon, looks like a fun board. It is Jimmy's new World Wide 8 9 x 31 at 140l, should be heaps for my 110 kegs. Seeing I find the 9 2 Stungun pretty easy at 124l I might try the 8 5 :)