Size by weight · Alton Surfboards

What size Alton Surfboards Highliner should I ride if I weigh this much?

At 170 lb, everyday surfers start near 35.5L. Other weights are in the table. This is a starting size, not the only size that works.

By the Quivr team · Published

Alton Surfboards Highliner

The catalog range runs knee-high to head-high, with a soft power midpoint, and a intermediate to advanced skill window.

If you weigh this much

Everyday means an intermediate surfer. Newer to hardboards gets more liters. Advanced gets fewer. A cell names a stock size only when that size is close to the starting volume. Otherwise it names the liters and stops.

Closest Alton Surfboards Highliner stock size for each weight. A cell that only names liters means no row on this chart is close enough.
If you weighNewer to hardboardsEverydayAdvanced
120 lb5'7" · 31.3Lchart starts at 31.3L — more foam than 25Lchart starts at 31.3L — more foam than 21.8L
130 lbaround 35.4L — no stock size that closechart starts at 31.3L — more foam than 27.1Lchart starts at 31.3L — more foam than 23.6L
140 lb6'0" · 41.2L5'7" · 31.3Lchart starts at 31.3L — more foam than 25.4L
150 lb6'0" · 41.2L5'7" · 31.3Lchart starts at 31.3L — more foam than 27.2L
160 lb6'0" · 41.2L5'7" · 31.3L5'7" · 31.3L
170 lbchart tops out at 41.2L — less foam than 46.3Laround 35.5L — no stock size that close5'7" · 31.3L
180 lbchart tops out at 41.2L — less foam than 49L6'0" · 41.2L5'7" · 31.3L
190 lbchart tops out at 41.2L — less foam than 51.7L6'0" · 41.2L5'7" · 31.3L
200 lbchart tops out at 41.2L — less foam than 54.4L6'0" · 41.2Laround 36.3L — no stock size that close
210 lbchart tops out at 41.2L — less foam than 57.2L6'0" · 41.2L6'0" · 41.2L
220 lbchart tops out at 41.2L — less foam than 59.9Lchart tops out at 41.2L — less foam than 45.9L6'0" · 41.2L

Common questions

What size Alton Surfboards Highliner should I ride if I weigh 140 pounds?

If you weigh 140 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 29.2 liters. The closest Alton Surfboards Highliner stock size is 5'7" at 31.3 liters.

What size Alton Surfboards Highliner should I ride if I weigh 150 pounds?

If you weigh 150 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 31.3 liters. The closest Alton Surfboards Highliner stock size is 5'7" at 31.3 liters.

What size Alton Surfboards Highliner should I ride if I weigh 160 pounds?

If you weigh 160 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 33.4 liters. The closest Alton Surfboards Highliner stock size is 5'7" at 31.3 liters.

What size Alton Surfboards Highliner should I ride if I weigh 170 pounds?

If you weigh 170 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 35.5 liters. No Alton Surfboards Highliner stock size is close enough to name one row. Stay near that volume on the chart.

What size Alton Surfboards Highliner should I ride if I weigh 180 pounds?

If you weigh 180 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 37.6 liters. The closest Alton Surfboards Highliner stock size is 6'0" at 41.2 liters.

What size Alton Surfboards Highliner should I ride if I weigh 190 pounds?

If you weigh 190 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 39.6 liters. The closest Alton Surfboards Highliner stock size is 6'0" at 41.2 liters.

What size Alton Surfboards Highliner should I ride if I weigh 200 pounds?

If you weigh 200 lb and surf at an everyday intermediate level, start near 41.7 liters. The closest Alton Surfboards Highliner stock size is 6'0" at 41.2 liters.

Stock chart

Length, width, thickness, and volume as published for Alton Surfboards Highliner in the Quivr catalog. Nothing here is estimated.

LengthWidthThicknessVolume
5'7"21"2.38"31.3L
6'0"21.5"2.75"41.2L

A shop chart that says “up to this weight” can point at a smaller size than the closest liter match. Their band is wide. This page picks the row nearest the starting volume. Fitness, and whether the waves are soft or punchy, still move it a size.

More on the number itself: what surfboard volume means. All weights: what size to ride for your weight.

Check it on the board

Open the same board in Quivr. The size pick uses this chart and your weight. The wave range on the card still has to fit the days you actually surf.