Splice of Life

New Designs from HARDDARTZ




The Splice Adapter

  This Dart is a great stepping stone for anyone wanting to indulge in surfing’s alternatives. The Splice Adapter gives you the freedom and time to transition from fin’s to c-channels. So when you’ve masted your lines with the fin’s in simply remove them and keep surfing. Plus when the swell’s on the larger size, just chuck them back in and out you go. As all Dartz this one paddles extremely well and get’s on to waves with ease. Best conditions for full enjoyment are around 2-5ft with a bit of push. Our starting sizes are 5’7″, 6’0″ & 6’3″.  Custom sizes made to order.   All orders and info emailed to harddartz@hotmail.com  












Below is a short video of Russ Newman giving the ‘Splice’ its first trial run at out at the local reef

Artwork on the Harddartz ‘Message Stick’

‘Whiteman Dreaming’

Shaped, Designed and Artwork by Stuart Wissing











I have riding and testing my ‘cuttlefish’ kneeboard  (pictured above with the splice) for well over 12months and have found this a great ‘alternative’ to riding a standard board with multiple fins , rocker and concave, and if you have been following this blog you would have seen multiple videos and pictures that I have posted as a testament to how good these designs work.

Russ Newman has came up with a new bottom design as a alternative to their standard C-Channel / Keel  bottoms that myself and the rest of the lucky crew have been trialing, and as I haven't had a chance to ride the new splice bottom shape as yet, I can vouch for Russ’s enthusiasm for his new design….pure STOKE !





After watching many a video and first hand local riders surfing the finless ‘alaia’ in a very squat,crouch position , it great to see this design ridden more like a standard board , with less rail slide, which will be a lot more user friendly for the standard Joe surfer who wants to try a finless board and have something that floats,paddles and rides like their standard fibreglass board that they are use to.




Above is a few examples of my other finless craft

Paipo,  Alaia  ,Handplane and my favourite… MT5 Surf Mat

Floatation or lack of makes riding the standard alaia design a lot harder than it looks, that why I find the Harddartz designs so easy to switch over to.




Paul and Russ

Steamers Beach

Walk out to Steamers Beach

This was my first chance to trial the new design, so after meeting up with Russ, Paul and myself  we decided to walk out to Steamers Beach, on a hope of there being banks on the beach with some nice swell…..well plenty of swell punching in on the sand, but alas no banks and as we stood there for over a hour watching ( Russ was still keen to paddle out) I had to point out to him he would do more damage to his board and my knees would go thru the deck if I rode it, as the waves were just rolling in and pitching directly on the shore…was not even good for my faithful MT5 to ride! So as anybody who has trekked out to Steamers knows what a long walk out, which is downhill including the 200 odd steps that you have to contend with, so what goes down must be walked back up…Arrggh….I’m getting too old for this shit……..who’s a silly waka now?

for more info and orders please visit

www.harddartz.com

Below is a video from the walk out to Steamers Beach

As this year is coming to a end, no pun intended to our ‘Mayan’ friends, I would like to thank anybody who have taken the time to have a browse thru my blog …..Hope everybody has a great Xmas break with plenty of good times and experiences  ahead in the New Year 2013