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Just following up here. Thanks to everyone for the comments and advice.
I ultimately got in touch with Sunova and custom ordered Flare 9x29x115L.
In the past 6months , I took Flare out in various conditions: knee high weak beach break, overhead typhoon swell, 7m+ onshore chop, and ofcouse in much cleaner conditions as well. In all conditons, Flare performed expremely well. Very stable in rough conditons, quick take off, sharp and great maneuverability on waves, and could nose ride as well. One fine tune I did was the fin set up. Stock fins came with 7" center + 4"sides. I currently use two set ups 1) Christenson 7.5" center + True Ames side bite 3.7" for fair~rough conditons 2) AMK Keel Fin + trailer in center for clean good size conditons.
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What do you think is an ideal two board quiver? NSP Highroller 10x26 + ?
I started SUP surfing on Starboard Longboard SUP 10x31x151L.
A great entry level board to paddle out in almost any conditions, super stable, great for crusing, catch many waves even those that don't break, and turns smooth and sharp for the size.
I recently moved onto NSP Highroller 10x26x112L.
Yes! a challenging choice but timing was now or never as now I could practice twice or three times a week to step up my game and growing older to make such choice in a few years time.
The experience so far has been mixed.
Great! on a clean day, very fast, sharp turns, progressive, alot more could be done as I improve my skills. But frustrating on a windy or a choppy conditions which is kind of obvious for the this spec (26 width) perfornance longboard and my current skills. So I ride Starboard in a rough conditions but it feels so big and slow...
So that leads me to the subject title, Longboard SUP ideal two board quivers NSP Highroller 10x26 +? for rough conditions.
I leaning towards another longboard style board with different spec (ie same NSP highroller series with wider spec like 9x29.5) but open to any ideas, thoughts, and experiences to be shared.
I am hoping for any comments / suggestions , especially from riders of similar high performance longboard SUP (not only NSP highroller but New deal 10x27, Revolution 10x25.5/26.5, Kalama 10x28 etc) , what you ride in a rough conditons.
BTW, I am 55 yr, 172cm , 68kg.
My usual surf destination is a beach break where I ride anywhere upto head high and anything over that becomes quite challenging for Longboard SUP.
