Sustainable Wooden Surfboard Shapes: The 5’6 ADPT

With a full outline that tapers to a pulled in swallow tail, the ADPT surfs incredibly well in small and sloppy conditions and its fine tuned 60/40 rails and the single to double concave facilitate speed and performance when the waves get better. We love the speed of the twin fin set up that can then be harnessed through turns without sliding out.

Alan Stokes:

“I knew the board would work, in terms of how it would cut through water, but I didn’t know how much performance it would have… given the development of twin fins over the years, we picked the right time to make a performance twin fin out of wood. Riding this for the first time I was surprised at quite how much performance there was.

The board went well, it was really quick, I had no idea it would be so fast. You get a bit more speed and a kind of weight to a carve or turn that is just lovely. It takes a little bit of adjustment, but if you pull into a barrel and trust in the board’s characteristics, you can do stuff that you wouldn’t necessarily be able to do on a foam board, that’s what I like about the difference.”

The ADPT is designed to be ridden in good waves and is our shape with the most manoeuvrability and performance. Small, light and fast.

5’6” x 19½” x 2 ⅜” – 27 l.

It can be made as either a twin fin or thruster. The twin fins provide down the line speed and looseness, allowing you to really feel the rail line through carves and turns, whist the thruster set-up gives you a more typical shortboard feel, great control and more vertical performance.

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All of our sustainable, hollow wooden surfboards are made using wood from local, regenerative woodlands and are intended for a lifetime of waves.