Rusty Miso - PU - FCS II - 5 Fin

The MISO is an all around board. Not a fish, but kinda fishy. The 5’6 runs approximately 14.0, 19.25, and 15.35 in the tail. The split is app 7.25. volume 26.5. A 6’4 numbers are 14.00" x 20.5" x 15.4" 2.55 thick 7.5 corner to corner 36.5 Liters.

The template is quite curvy. Despite the hard wing in the outline, the template maintains its curve. Bottom: the entry is fairly flat, mid is a shallow con that grows into a moderate double con/vee, +- .16 that peaks around 16 to 18 inches up from the tail. The tail rocker is fairly aggressive. Short arc turns. The overall extra template width adds area which helps to generate lift. The lower apex rails also contribute to lift as well as a quicker setting rail. Originally designed for smaller days. As it turns out, they perform great in medium size surf. Versatile.

Not a fish, but kinda fishy

The template is quite curvy. Despite the hard wing in the outline, the template maintains its curve.

Versatile

Originally designed for smaller days. As it turns out, they perform great in medium size surf. The overall extra template width adds area which helps to generate lift. The lower apex rails also contribute to lift as well as a quicker setting rail.

Fin(s) included: None

Special note regarding the 5'8: The 5'8 shows the correct dimensions and volume, however the label indicates 5'9 by mistake. We have verified this is indeed a 5'8.

Rusty Surfboards is the brainchild of Rusty Preisendorfer

Born in 1953, Rusty began designing surfboards at the age of sixteen. Not long after, he started shaping surfboards for major brands including Canyon and Gordon & Smith (G&S), to name a few.

As his profile grew, Rusty’s hand-shaped boards became the choice of champions, earning ads and editorials in both Surfer and Surfing magazines. In the 1980s, after success on his shapes, Rusty began to brand his work under Canyon Surfboards with his own logo.

This heralded the birth of Rusty models being ridden by more than half the pro surfers in the ASP (now WSL) Top 16, including Australia’s Mark Occhilupo and Californian Dave Parmenter. As a rivalry developed between Occy and California’s hero, Tom Curren, the publicity blasted Rusty into the surfboard shaping spotlight.

With Occy riding Rusty models and Tom riding Al Merrick / Channel Islands surfboards, their rivalry grew into legendary proportions. This was the perfect time for this master of surfboard shaping to take the plunge on his own.

Breaking away from Canyon in 1985, Rusty the man soon became Rusty the brand, starting his own label using an iconic, large R with a dot as his logo. This was referred to simply as the ‘R-dot’ and has carried us through to this day.

It did not take long before the ‘R-dot’ moved into apparel as the brand became more established and recognized in the world of surfing. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Rusty Surfboards endorsed many of the pro surfers of that decade, including Taylor Knox, Chris Ward, CJ and Damien Hobgood, Jamie O’Brien, Kalani Robb, Todd Chesser, Shane Powell and, more recently, Josh Kerr, Noa Deane and now Wade Carmichael and Caio Ibelli.

Alongside surfing, the company was one of the first to crossover and endorse athletes from other board-sport disciplines, like skateboarding with Tony Hawk and snowboarding with Jason Ford.

Rusty Surfboards’ commitment to progressive surfboard designs for pros and bros alike makes it one of the most beloved and well-respected brands in the surfing world today.