Rusty Dwart

Had a Surf + 'New Toy' which is almost exactly the same. Short, wide, thick, double bump thumb tail. Rode it 2 times and sold it. Then saw it 6 months later on Craigs List. Seemed to really bog down in the mushy stuff. When it was clean, wasit +, i'd use a different board. You might use it in chest high clean waves.... but for what i got it for, it didnt work.

 

Just saw the Rascal 2 in TransWorld Surf. I think that would be more conducive to NJ waves...

 

I ride a Timmy Patterson Rising Sun and love it. Wide full volume shortboard that can catch anything from knee high on up.

 

i had a dwart & pretty much hated it...for a variety of different reasons. i admittedly may have gone too big w/ it (5'10"), but still...not my thing. i like egg shapes, but this one didn't do anything for me, nor did the ci biscuit.
dunno about the t.patterson or doc stuff, tho. maybe they're different (more refined).

i think my issues are mostly to do w/ the rails...both the dwart & biscuit have VERY, VERY full rails, to the point of being almost blobby. i like my rails, not pinched, but kind of halfway between full & pinched.

i went 5'10" on the dwart b/c i thought i'd gone too small w/ the biscuit (5'8"). unfortunately, i felt like i was going to blow out my shoulders when i duck dove the thing.

so yea, not a fan of the dwart/biscuit type shapes. i do like eggs, tho. my current go-to board is a 6'0" wynn bonzer egg. i love the thing...if we could get some quality surf, i'd like to really push the limits on it & see just what the thing can handle. i already know that it does the knee-chest range well. my big question is just how big is too big for this board?

 

Ron, that timmy patterson board is really nice looking. I would like to try out one of those shapes sometime. Looking for something different as my go-to board than the RNF, something with a little more pulled in nose. You were def getting some solid turns on that a few weeks ago though.

This has nothing to do with your topic

 

Andy, I think you would love the rising sun. I had it out every day of surf this week from Tuesday till this morning and it was perfect in all of it. The last day we were out when you were fooling around on the longboard was too small for it, but more because the form was so bad, if that slop had been formed up better it would have been fine in that to. I know I have told you how I hate to move from board to board depending on conditions, well this board seems to be the best all around board I have ever had. I am loving the McNabb twin fin set with tiny trailer I bought from Mitchell. Check out this video of Alek Parker on a Rising Sun http://vimeo.com/9338561.

 

I think you're right...the rails in those board are really round and full and the boards have low rocker..i dont like that feel either...they never seem to me like they can hold a high line.

Ive got a 6'6" egg that Jon Ashton made me a few years ago that has normal shortboard rocker and rails. It comes alive once the waves get over chest high and can handle size...for arond here. My guess is that bonzer egg would like fly in HH lined up waves.

 

7S Superfish. They make 5'9''...6'....6'3''

I have the 6'3'' and i wont ride anything else. Ive had it 5 years and have rode it in nothing to giant hollow death waves. Floats insane and it has step rail design where the rails are thin so you can rip if you want to. It has been around forever and it works. Cheaper too than AL MERRICK BRAAA. Getsome.

 

yes, the fish shape has been around quite a while & works really well in many settings. the 7S is less traditional fish & more modern/hybrid fish. but in many of those settings, there's something else that would work better.

that's b/c it's a foreign-made piece of junk w/ shoddy glassing & poor fin plug installation (i've never seen more blown FCS plugs than in the 7S). kind of like the anacapas that merrick tried to sell for a while. not defending merrick here, b/c he's done the same thing- over-seas board production that cuts corners & costs & produces an inferior board.
you'd be better off finding & supporting a local shaper who builds each board by hand & can build you exactly the right board for you & how & where you surf.

 

Dwart size?

Hello guys:

I am very interested in buying a Dwart board, but I have some doubts about the size to choose.
I am 5.8 ft and 168 lb
I practice surf in the South of Spain, where the waves normally have little power of 0 to 5.5 ft, sometimes in reef with some tube. For these waves, I have a custom board similar to a Piranha shape, with size 6’0” – 20”– 2.5”.
For bigger waves, I have a 6.4.
What size of Dwart must buy to wave from 0 to 5.5 ft? A 5.8, a 5.10?
A couple of questions more:
All boards are manufactured in the USA, or also are manufactured in the EU?
Where can I buy the board? I have seen that is sold on the web of Magicseaweed in England.
Is it better to buy in a web of USA? Which one?

Thx

 

you'd be killing it with the 5'8. See I do a lot of my surfing in VB where the waves too are on average 0-5.5 feet. Our body sizes are similar, I'm just a couple inches taller and couple pounds lighter than you and I ride a board very similar to the 5'8 dwart MOST of the time.

 

I have had an Apache for a year and a half now, and it is easily the board I ride the most. Thing works in anything from Assa waist high mushburgers to overhead suckouts at ss.

 

Thank you for the answer

 

Dwart Owner

I have owned 6.o poly dwart for 2 years now.

I bought it as a small wave board in S. Florida surf. I have used it as a quad only with vector II fins.

I am 6' 200 pounds.

This board works great for me. While yes, it does struggle a little getting on smaller waves, once on, this board is very manuverable. It is very quick rail to rail, almost too quick. It takes a little time to get used to.

I have riden this thing from knee high to OH waves. It is best in waist high surf.

I would buy one if you wanted to add a fish/spoon like board to your quiver.

 

Hi Angel,

I have a 5'8" dwart . I tried the 5'6" and really liked it . I'm 6'1" 190lbs . The Dwart has alot of foam . take a look at the stock dimension chart especially the volume.that should help you decide. Here's the description from the shaper.

http://www.rustysurf.com/website/surfboards-boards-alternative/dwart/

there is also a 'T-dwart" out this year ,,, thinned out quite a bit more than the original.

take care all ~

 

Hi Henny:

Thank you for the answer.

I LOVE the foam, because I'm 36 years old, jajajajajaaja

I've been calculate my Piranha volume (6’0”-20”-2”1/2) and is about 35l, similar than the 5.10 with 36.3l, and more than the 5.8 with 33.6l. The 5.6 has 31.2l with size 5’6”-20”1/4-2.56”
I think that the 5.6 is little for me.

I' know that the 5.8” Dawrt is wider and thicker, but do enough to compensate for the Piranha volume?

Piranha 6’0”- 20”-2”1/2 --- V = 35 l
Dwart 5.10” – 20 ¾” - 2 11/16” ---- V = 36 l
Dwart 5.8” – 20 ½” – 2 5/8” ----- V = 33 l

Thx

 

36 ? you're younger than me , lighter than me and get better surf !

so you'll do fine on a 5'8" as Xtremeliquidshredda said ! Any bigger it will feel like a boat !

Regarding volume : Keep in mind the Dwart carries more under your chest and the nose,with the widepoint more forward than a Piranha so It catches waves easily and generates instant speed on takeoff . The rusty "quadratic formula" places the fins closer to the stringer . So you get the speed of a quad with the pivot of a thruster. I like the stretch quad template. I haven't ridden it as a thruster.
~ good luck