Average Joe VS. DWART (HELPPP!!)

Lol really? Well, you did just get here recently.

Search through the Roy Stuart tread and you'll see a helmeted inmate surfing a redwood tree.

 

long ago, I bought a Rusty Piranha, which, according to them, could surf "knee to head high". Fact was, it had too much rocker to surf anything under waist high and too wide/round a nose to fit in anything close to a head high barrel. Bottom line is surfboard companies exaggerate their model's performance...especially on the small wave end.

I haven't ridden the RV, but, based on the reviews, it's closer to the Dwart than the AJ. I'm not a fan of rounded pintails in small/flat faced waves, so that would take the Dwart out of the equation for me.

 

The Dwart looks like you could actually turn it, while the AJ is for intermediates to chug down the line on.

Unless you ride the AJ as short as you are supposed to, which judging by the ones I see in the lineup no one does

 

Bro. I rip on my 4'3. What you talkin bouts?

 

Hey, someone's gotta give the heavy girls lovin

Lol

 

Skimma brahhhhh

 

I drove back and forth and looked at the RV vs. the Dwart for Mrs. Two Barrels. I couldn't compare them side by side, but I truly couldn't tell the difference going from one shop to the other. Same retracted bat tail, same nose, similar rocker profile (or lack thereof). The RV was a buck fitty and came with awesome fins, but I had a barely used set of high end fins, so ultimately it came down to $$$.

The story behind getting this board: I forgot our anniversary and I knew her birthday was coming up in a few weeks, but I forget the date--- so I bought the stick and had the shoppies put a bow on it and leave it there. We drove down early to surf and--surprise! I gave her an "early" birthday present to preempt the date that I would have ultimately missed, and it looked like I had planned to miss the anniversary. Kick-save and a beauty.

 

I didn't necessarily mean "wide", I meant squared off. Basically, square/squash tails seem to have snappier turns and roundtails turn smoother/more "flow-y"...but also more stable in any power.

 

i thought the rv had a staggered bat tail too?

 

stepped tapering is the same on both the Dwart and RV, but the Dwart is rounded at the end and RV is squashed. Doesn't seem like that would make much of a difference, but it does. Even with the "fangs", rocket tails are round enough to feel the difference (won't be buying anymore of those).

 

Rocket tails, IMO, are the greatest. I have a vernor that is equipped with it (slightly) and have a v3 that has it. They are two of the best boards I have ever owned. Rockets kinda give you the best of both worlds. Dude was ripping his v3 in the cold water classic...I think he even won...tho he could probably rip into anything with anything...to each his own.

Got the rv too a little while ago. I have now grown to like the board and probably taking it off craigslist. Been taking it out in mushy crap and using super large fins on front and much smaller rears. Seems to turn and release much better then how I previously had it set up.

 

idk, round tails just lend themselves more toward a larger/steeper wave, imo...waves probably weren't that small at the cold water classic.

guess I'm just more of an "all or nothing" type. To me, "best of both worlds" equals "jack of all trades" equals "master of none". Granted, the fangs on a rocket tail give a little more bite than a pure round tail, but I think they still lean way too much toward a round tail's smoothing characteristics.