It’s a conundrum all surfers are familiar with: you’ve only got space for one board in the car and you don’t know where you’re going to surf or what it’s going to be like. Or you’re off on a surf trip and you need a reliable all-rounder – you don’t want to be undergunned when the waves pick up, or lacking volume when they're lacking push.

The Maluku Dragonfly is an elegant solution to this age-old problem, all smooth lines and graceful curves. It can handle solid overhead surf and waist-high mush alike, making the it a suitable step-up option, a capable groveller, and an ideal travel board for intermediates and more advanced surfers.

The volume and surface area are concentrated under the chest, so it’s an excellent paddler – get into bigger waves early, glide into smaller waves when other shortboarders are struggling – and duck-dives easily too. But the Dragonfly doesn’t sacrifice performance at the altar of versatility. The double wing enables hard and sharp turns in the pocket; the deep concaves help it pump through soft sections or power round faster, more challenging ones with speed and control.

As you’d expect, this one-board-quiver comes with a five-fin set-up, so you can surf it as a thruster or a quad as conditions or personal preference dictate.

Maluku surfboards are handcrafted in the UK.

• Rider Ability: Intermediate to expert
• Suitable Conditions: 2-8ft – the Dragonfly is a classic one-board quiver
• Construction: PU/PE with a standard glass job (1 x 4oz layer on the bottom, 2 x 4oz layers on the deck)
• Fin System: FCS II
• Fin Set-Up: 5-fin (can be surfed as a thruster or a quad)
• Outline: Plenty of surface area combined with graceful curves, with straightish rails leading into the double-bump wings
• Nose: Fairly full performance nose
• Tail: Rounded pin
• Rocker: Moderately high lift in the nose, short flat mid section to moderate tail lift
• Bottom Shape: Single concave in the nose to mid point flowing into a double concave with slight ‘vee’ in the tail
• Rail Shape: A slightly domed deck with moderately full rounded rails from the mid-point forward, to thinner boxy rails with hard bottom edge in the tail