Good to have toys , even better to have options mate - cheers

I just posted a question about this on the standup zone.

my spot has short period groundswell under wind chop. I'm on the west coast of Sweden in a big bay, my guess is that it's more like the great lakes, but have never been on th GLs.

I was out with my 7 year old in 15 knots and we had some short period 2 foot ground swell under wind chop. I was on Fanatic AW 9-2 and boy on 9-0 Naish kid board. I was concentrating on keeping track of the boy who was struggling a bit in the chop ( should have put him on aw and me on 12-6 Bark , like last time. ) I noticed the AW was a lot of fun and would plane on the swell. it seemed much better and more fun than the Bark in these conditions

I'm not very experienced, but it has made me think that perhaps a shorter 10-6 or 11-4 traditional longboard ( like a Nalu) is a better DW board for my conditions.

as soon as I have conditions and time I'm going to do a back to back DW on bark and aw to compare.
looking to get another board for wife, and was thinking of a 14' for me and wife could take 12-6 bark. but perhaps better (and cheaper) to get a Nalu..

advice from people with dw experience in these conditions welcome. straight question: is a 10-6 type of board more fun in short period DW than a 12-6 or 14 dedicated DW board. ?