Need help choosing a new surfboard

CI Flyer is the money - go squash tail for good surf and learn how to swimme in case the leash is not properly tied.

 

5'8.75"x19.125"x2.35" mud puddle jumper flyer model will be perfect for what you are looking for

 

Jinx

 

Out of all for the most performance and all around conditions, I dig the V3 Stealth for feel, response, speed. Never been a CI fan, but a buddy surfs them all year, into DOH conditions and loves them. I really like the way the entire JS and Pyzels board range surf too. There's a lot in those sizes/shapes you mentioned. I've recently been surfing Supers and like the shapes and the way they surf, not so stoked on the glassing. Vapors, Spam, or Unit you can really rip in that range.

Height, weight? I like the mudpuddleflyershipjumper hahaha^^^

 

Just beef up your HP board a bit. Go a little wider. Maybe 19.5 wide. Go to a local guy who can replicate it. My "performance" SB is what people on the west coast would probably call a grovler. 5'8 x 19.5 x 2.5. A little fuller in the nose and pulled in tail. 28L. On the EC a little extra volume is a good thing.

 

Buy them all. wayne will be in touch.

 

Look into Coil Industries.

http://www.swaylocks.com/forums/coil-ride-reports

 

I second the custome idea. Go talk to a reputable local shaper. You'll learn a lot.

 

The custom is the way to go. For the same price or less you can get a board made exactly for you and it will have all the characteristics that you are looking for. If this is to be your winter board you can get it glassed a little heavier and add a little weight in the nose to help fight the wind and get you in early.

Im gonna guess from your name that you are in MA. Check out Vec Surfboards out of the Cape or Roger Beal on the south shore.

 

If you go custom, which you absolutely should, don't forget the double concave with vee out the tail. I find it really suites my boards well since i like my performance boards to be a beefed up version of a west coast performance board.

 

Totally wrong, depending on the shaper. My shaper has a CNC machine. Can literally REPLICATE any board.

As an after thought, maybe your not totally wrong. Don't know CNC machines are common in shaping bays nowa days. Regardless. Go with a local shaper any way because yes a quality custom is cheaper. Without any bro deals i get a custom for 500 with color, rails, bottom contours, little nit picky things that i know i like I a board.

 

Not true. Shaping machines are only as precise as... the design, the file, the cutter, the finisher. Before machines, all boards were handshapes, shaped precisely by talented craftsmen... or they were fired.

I always say, "symmetrical is symmetrical." In other words, a board is either perfect or not, and you can get there either way... by hand or by machine.

Blanks today have a variety of rockers that only need minor tweaks. Rails are measured and marked before being cut and blended. Bottom contours are mapped out and cut with planers to less than 1mm of tolerance... a hotcoat is thicker than that.

 

Why does someone "need help" in choosing a board??
If the OP needs to decide between boards of 19.25, 19.30, or 19.40.........the OP is mentally deranged. It won't make a rats ass of difference in any wave, any ocean, lake, puddle or bath tub, given that the OP knows how to surf.
You are wasting your spit.....

 

This statement tells me that the OP has not been surfing very long.

 

You are asking about "non-existing" differences.
If you have not been surfing long, you will never tell the difference in width changes with those minor, minor, minor, minor, differences.
Nobody can--that is my point. Not even "pros", no matter what they tell you.
Also 19" is wayyy too narrow for mushy East Coast waves, no matter how young you are.
Stop trying to impress your friends. Make you own decision--you will better off.