Roy Stuart

At Roy Stuart surfboards we strive for perfection in everything we do. With the most hydrodynamically advanced surfboards ever built, Roy Stuart is redefining the luxury surfboard market.

Each model has a personality of its own, but all share the same powerful presence. When a Roy Stuart surfboard glides by the world stands still, in recognition of a unique design DNA which is instantly recognisable.

The parallel profile and low thickness to length ratios give the shapes a low to the water dynamic which delivers outstanding surfability.

An aristocrat of surfing

Roy Stewart's colossal artistic personality, design genius and unflinching commitment to universal hydrodynamic principles are applied relentlessly in his quest for Pure Surfing. He has the courage to question and distill the spirit of surfing and understand it as the source of his work. "What is essential to surfing?" is a question he asks himself constantly. Flight, maximum speed, an aspiration to perfect efficiency, and unity with the energy of the wave is what his work pursues.
Roy Stewart surfboards are beautiful because they are true organic works, whose purpose, appearance, structure, material, method of construction, performance and even symbolic potential are tightly woven into a cohesive but infinitely flexible whole, conceived after great analytical and synthetic effort of the imagination in an attempt to create as nature does.

 
Elegance defined
Elegance defines Roy Stuart surfboards: a low thickness to length ratio via the innovative parallel profile for optimum flex; the use of foil sections for templates; considerable area with significant rocker forward creating an optimum configuration for early planing; a narrow tail for maximum control and rail to rail ease which works mostly in displacement supplemented by the efficiently generated lift from the fins in a brilliant balance of the best of many worlds; the tunnel fin as a slave foil lifting smoothly as needed without resisting roll with the deep elliptical fins generating upward lift when canted to the horizon. It is nourishing to see his true dynamic, three dimensional understanding of the elements involved in wave riding.

 The essence of surfing
Being one with the wave is the essence of olo surfing, and it is heir to Duke Kahanamoku's spirit. The purity of Roy Stuart's surfboards is unsettling. The spirit behind them is even more so. His boards caused a stir in Hawaii not only by being the most expensive surfboards in the world, but also by expressing surfing's lost vital essence, the one which the great Duke valued more highly than his olympic gold medals.