HyrdoDoc wrote:So much food for thought. Enjoying the many opinions given and appreciate your particular experiences with your boards. Any thoughts on something of a very different shape? Here's something fairly long, large surface area, and high volume for its class. The Rusty Moby Fish, touted as "Fantastic for Beginners". Would this be appropriate for 1-3ft waves? It's available from 6' to 8'6".
http://www.rustysurfboards.com/moby-fish/
It would depend on the kind of waves you were going to use it in and what you wanted to do in them.....I have a similar kind of board and I like it a lot. I also have longboards.....ride them differently and use for different conditions though sometimes I could use either depending on what I feel like. If you are looking at using in 1ft faced waves, I'd go with a longboard.....that fish as big as they come will still need some push before you get it to come alive.....better off with a bigger board if really small mushy waves that you want to cruise on are the conditions and goals.
Nothing stopping you from getting both.............just saying'.......
Cheers!