Summer family all rounder

[Farno]

I'm learning my way on an NSP 7'6 mal and loving it

I know that we are hitting the winter season here in the UK but i'm all ready looking towards the summer months. I would love my wife and son to be able to enjoy a little time on the water with me, so i'm looking for a longboard. Our time in the water would be limited to perhaps once a week max.
So should i just get a 10' log as a good all rounder, so they can pop up easily and i could tandem with them.

The swell here in Sunderland isnt great, we get plenty on white water around 1-2' in the summer, but nothing solid, so i'm thinking that something big would be an advantage.

Any input and recommendations are welcome

[Hang11]

Depends on how old your son is - I've tried to get my kids riding a longboard - 7 & 5 years old, and it's really too big for them to use at that age, they can't control it, and it tends to pearl or go sideways which usually ends in tears. It's a lot of weight to have flying around the heads of young kids too.

I can stick them on my back and ride a few small ones with them, but the screaming right in my ear isn't nice.

In the end I bought them a 6'2" shortboard, dense foam thing, which has proper rails & rocker, and they are getting on great with it.

My wife surfs pretty well, she has her own longboard.

[RJD]

My wife surfs pretty well, she has her own longboard.

And fish!!!

[Hang11]

My wife surfs pretty well, she has her own longboard.

And fish!!!

Don't remind her - she's only used it once. It was the best birthday present I ever bought her...

[Farno]

good call about the weight thing, didn't think of that.
My boy is too young to get in the surf at the moment, but i was hoping to have a longboard for the summer, and it seemed a good way to sell it to my wife and then when hes older we could tandem on it.

[Hang11]

My kids hang on to my back, and I catch a few waves with them that way. They love it. It's good fun on a small day.

Sneaking stuff past the wife is a difficult art to learn. I've got $2k of new fly fishing gear sat in my office right now, I'm too scared to take it home.