I'm 55 years old and haven't surfed in about 40 years. I'm looking forward to doing it again. I'm 5'9" and weigh about 185 lbs. I live in San Antonio and would be making regular trips to Corpus Christi for surfing.
I'm ready to buy a used board now and I'm trying to decide between two of them. The first is a fish design, 6'3" x 19-1/2" x 2-1/2" with a small swallow tail. The second is a shortboard, 7'0" with a little extra width toward the nose and a little extra thickness and a squash tail. (I don't know the exact dimensions of the board).
I'm leaning toward the 7 footer (I have lots of muscle memory yet as far as surfing goes and used to ride a short skinny board in my youth). I would be surfing though, in small, sometimes mushy surf as it is in the Gulf .
Will the shortboard catch the smaller waves ok? I'm told it's a good floater and paddler, or should I go with the fish?
Many, many thanks for ANY and all replies and advice.
Mods please move this to the right forum. Thanks.
