Bourton Surfboards, shaped by Murray Bourton in Kirra, Australia, are leading the charge in high-performance standards along with JS and Simon Anderson. Bourton team riders include aerial masters such as Ry Craike and Troy Brooks.
The "HPL" model Bourton Surfboard HPL (High Performance Lightweights) - Introducing the HPL which is exactly the same glass job and stringer combo as the Inspiration Series but the designs come in the longer lengths, and are a mixture of the high performance tricks in the Inspirations. For bigger guys around 80 kilos plus who want to ride the latest and the lightest within reason the HPL is the way to go.
Basically these designs have hips and deeper concaves, they are squash tails with small boxy rails and slightly veed decks. The boxy rail allows the thickness in the centre to be kept to a minimum so if they seem thin numerically they are certainly not in the rail.
I have drawn the line at 6'6 coz I reckon the concept gets lost any longer than that.
The "Bat Fish" model Bourton Surfboard
The Batfish is the board that started the new quad revolution. The '07 Batfish sports a deep concave that runs into a flat section then to a deepening vee out of the tail. Comes with either a quad or five-fin plug
