Rusty magic door hands down.
Be wary of the bean, shape is good but it's a gsi and their glass jobs are ****house.

Time to see your local shaper son.

Dont fall for marketing hype!

Danielson said..

I was dead keen on the hypto, but i have heard there glass jobs are week and also not to keen on folking out 920 bucks for somthing thats not going to last. can any one recomend a quality shaper in and around sydney??

Sure.....where are you - north or south ?

Andrew Harris.

Sorry. Was the closest shaper I could think of to Randwick. Is there something I don't know???

No worries there ! I don't mind doing a few miles for a good shaper

Ive been on a mayhem mini driver 6-4, firewire construction for 6 months now and its great!!! goes really well in all waves, i did an indo trip in may and it went really good at g-land!! It has made me surf alot better, I was riding alot of shorter hybirds... but this thing has me surfing alot better in all types of waves...plus im using it as an alrounder!!!

I'm still pretty chuffed with my 5'10 Katana Skud, and will probably look at getting something similar but slightly smaller to throw around in the summer.

On the topic of which, if I were looking for a board best suited to the choppy onshore conditions we get most summer afternoon, what would I look for?

Getting out of town isn't always practical, so surfing when the seabreeze is in has been a proven way of dodging summer crowds. What sort/style of board best suits these conditions, have any of you guys got a go-to shape?

Can't go wrong with either a rusty magic door or a clearwater monkey chop for summer fun. If you want a pop out maybe the CI dumpster diver ? Deep single to double comcave is your friend. There is nothing worse than a pin tail in small waves and both the rusty and the CW have wide arse squares. Add a quad option for good measure I reckon.

If you like katanas boards I reckon his squad model looks the goods. The skud with its pin would go better in gpod waves rather than summer ****e I reckon.

http://katanasurf.com/skud/

Mines over 12 months old and like new. Been hammered.

Guess what I'm saying is go local shaper.

I really like the look of that Skud.

A while back I bought a 5'9 fish with a pin tail for $200. It's my go-to board for small waves now. I sold my JS small wave board with all the hype marketing.

I like the pin-tail for WA. We don't get mushy/weak waves here - or I don't bother. Also I'm not doing big punts etc that require the tail width.