Duppy

The featured 26–35L band covers the core-liters range most modern- twin riders land in. A useful starting point: if you typically ride a 28L thruster on chest-high days at Lowers or T-Street, look at the lower half of the band (5'5"–5'7" / 26.1L–28.8L). If your daily shortboard is 32L or above, the upper half (5'9"–6'0" / 31.6L–35.9L). For waves above head-high with real push, you can size down a couple of liters from your shortboard volume — the Duppy's hovering feel makes up the paddle deficit on the way in. For waist-high softer days, size up. If you're between two sizes, we usually go up in volume and not in length.

Twin only. The Duppy is positioned as a clean, identity-defining modern twin and the customizer config reflects that — no thruster, no quad, no five-fin convertibility. The fin marks sit at 12" from the tail; default fin box system is Futures. If you want convertibility on a twin platform, you're in different-board territory — start a conversation and we'll talk through what fits your quiver instead of forcing the Duppy to do something it isn't built for.

Waist-high to head-high+ clean surf with shape. The Duppy was tuned to skate through the soft middle of a wave then re-engage when the section throws — a chest-high day at Lowers, a lined-up afternoon at San Onofre, T-Street when the tide's right. On trip, it carries into the soft mainland Mexico point days, a Baja beach break with some push, or the long-walling fun-size sessions in the Mentawais between bigger swells. What it isn't: a hollow-reef gun. If you live for double-overhead Blacks or 8ft Indo, this isn't the day this board was built for.

Best fit: an experienced surfer who already owns a high-performance shortboard and wants a second board that surfs the shoulder, not the pocket. The Duppy isn't a one-board quiver — the modern twin feel rewards a rider who knows what their shortboard does and wants a contrast for the days when the shortboard isn't the right call. Intermediate riders ready to commit to clean-wave reading and advanced surfers looking for a shoulder-surfing companion to their HPSB are both squarely in the target.

Designed by Blake in Shape3D, CNC-cut, glassed in San Clemente by Jack Sykes' team. Default glassing is 4oz S-cloth + 4oz warp deck over a 4oz S-cloth bottom — a balance of liveliness and bruise resistance that suits a board you'll surf often. Futures fin boxes by default. PU foam standard. Shaped to your specs and built to order. Turnaround times: 4–6 weeks for clear-sanded ($750), 8–10 weeks for resin-tint sanded ($900), 6–8 weeks for tint with gloss and polish ($1,100). Timeline reflects current queue and gets confirmed on order. 25% deposit holds your build slot; balance due on completion.

Useful frame. The CI Two Happy Twin is the closest mainstream analog to the Duppy's positioning — shortboard-derived modern twin with performance rocker and a tail contour built for drive. The Christenson OP3 sits in adjacent territory but pulls the tail in more, which gives a different kind of hold-and-release feel. The Duppy's distinct contribution is the friction-free hover — the kind of board where your turn is half-finished before you noticed you started it. Where a pulled-tail twin asks the wave to feed it push, the Duppy generates speed without needing the wave to do the work. The other practical difference: the Duppy is built to your specs in San Clemente from $750 — the CI and Christenson production boards are stock-dim only.

Three finish tiers: clear-sanded ($750), resin tint both sides sanded ($900), tint with gloss and polish ($1,100). All three include the standard 4oz S-cloth + 4oz warp deck over 4oz S-cloth bottom schedule. Add-ons available: deck patch ($30) for hard-pushing riders; white carbon tail patch ($35) recommended for the upper-band sizes (32L+); volan glass deck or bottom ($50) as a heritage option (more common on longboards but available); custom airspray ($80 single colour, $150 multi-colour or fade); resin tint abstract or swirl ($120 one side, $200 both sides); stringer alts ($40–$120 depending on choice). Read the foam + resin guide for the full foam-to-finish breakdown.

The contour is single concave the whole length of the board — that's what's labeled on the template, that's what came out of the Shape3D geometry, that's what gets CNC-cut. The single concave loads the lead foot and projects speed through the flat middle of a wave without the extra release a double would add behind the fins. On a modern twin tuned for hovering through soft sections — rather than holding through hollow drives — the single concave does more of the work the rider needs done. Pair that with the medium entry rocker and low exit rocker shown on the template, and the board reads as a clean speed-and-skate twin rather than a drive-and-bite shape. If you want the drive feel of a double behind the fins, you're in thruster or quad territory rather than modern-twin territory.

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