Advice for new board - lanky experienced surfer

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Get a custom in the Length and Width you like and the Magic of that Shaping Machine can give you the Litres you want .....and probably come in cheaper than the off the rack C.I or others.

A DP Performa at 6'3" is 30.25l in stock dims and will do customs.

What about looking at it from the point of view of stance width and scaling up accordingly.
I'm 5'10'' and my stance width is 18'' heel centre to heel centre.
You being 9'' taller would have a wider stance.
A ball park calculation would be you being 12.5% taller than me would therefore have a stance 12.5% wider than my stance.
12.5% of 18'' equals 2 1/4''.
So your stance width is probably about 20 1/4''.
You were saying 31 litres is what you want, I think you need to go up in volume by 12.5%.
12.5% of 31 litres is 34.87 litres.
Here is a set of dimensions for a 35.7 litre board.
6'1'' by 20 1/4'' wide by 2 3/4'' thick.
You were saying you want to go longer, you can play around with these numbers to add some length, for example reduce the width by 1/4'' or 3/8 '' and add 1'' to the length for each 1/8'' of reduction of the width.
There is a volume number for a 1/8'' reduction in width and the person who can help you is a shaper who shapes using a shaping machine and a computer.

Something I have never seen is a tutorial where someone sits in front of a computer screen with a designer and plays around with AKU shaper software and explores volume numbers relative to dimension numbers.

I'd be trying to find a tall, lanky shaper and asking them what they reckon?

Yeah, I'd combine FR & udo's advice (interesting ideas from philosurphizing too) - have a chat with a lanky shaper and get a custom.
From memory Nigel Annesley (recently featured in an article on the front page) is a pretty lanky bloke (but that's coming from my nuggety 5'9 perspective).
Anyone got other suggestions of someone who'd fit the bill?

Keep in mind thickness more so than length or width is where you can plus /minus volume....play around on the channel islands board design to see what i mean.

Annesley isn't really tall and lanky.

Stretch is tall and lanky. He's based in California but they license and make his boards in Wollongong I think.

Here is a link to the Channel Islands Customizer Simba mentioned.
https://www.cisurfboards.com/board/fishbeard/#CUSTOMIZE
Click in the box next to the blue button and select length width and thickness and up comes volume.
I selected the neckbeard model and had a bit of a play.
6'1'' by 20 1/4'' by 2 3/4'' equals 36.6 litres.
Change the width down to 20 '' and you get 36.2 L only .4L reduction.
Add 1'' to length and volume increases by .8L.
Alter the thickness from 2 3/4'' down to 2 1/2'' and you get a significant 3.3L decrease in volume.

What a great teaching tool to play around with.
Select the planshape from the various models as your starting point.

How tall is Owen Wright ? What length does he ride in average waves ?

Simon Anderson? Tall and lanky, although I don’t think he’s into big airs

lukaf17 I'd be having a look at one of these mate.

https://www.lsdsurfboards.com/boards/the-hammer

Something around the 6'3 to 6'4 mark in the stock dims I reckon would be good from what you've described your ability as. Tune it up if you can do a custom.