Album Moonstone Swallow Tail 8'2 review: a fat-wave channel twin

Updated 2026-09-19

The Album Moonstone Swallow Tail is an 8'2 custom twin fin with a channel bottom, built for fatter waves like point breaks. It became one of the more worked boards in the rack before it moved on.

What it is and why I bought it

I ordered this Moonstone from Album in November 2021, a PU board with a medium-flat rocker, full rails and a bottom running from a very mild single, into a deeper single, into a mild double vee with channels, finished with a swallow tail. At 21 1/4 inches wide and 58 litres over 8'2, it was built specifically to be suitable for 1 to 7 ft, fatter waves like point breaks, exactly as the register describes it.

How it surfed

Its best wave came at Granite, at a top speed of 33 km/h (about 20.5 mph) over a 318 metre ride, using Alkali Keel fins. It proved itself as a genuine fat-wave, point-break specialist, holding speed and line on the kind of long, open-face waves that reward a wide, channelled outline. It also sits alongside a diamond-tail sibling of the same model built even larger, the two sharing the same design family but cut for slightly different jobs.

Who it suits and who it does not

A wide, channel-bottom twin fin like this suits someone with regular access to fatter, longer point waves who wants a board built to hold speed on that kind of wave rather than everyday beach-break surf. The logged wave range is 1 to 7 ft, ideal at 4 ft, so it wants some length and shape in the wave to show what it can do.

What happened to it

It sold on 3 January 2026 for $800, against a $1,275 build cost, moving to a buyer overseas.

Questions people ask

What fins work on the Moonstone Swallow Tail?

Alkali Keel fins are the setup logged against this board.

What conditions was this board built for?

The register states it directly: suitable for 1 to 7 ft, fatter waves like point breaks, which its 318 metre best ride at Granite backs up.

Is there a similar board still worth checking out?

A related diamond-tail Moonstone from the same order exists in the register, cut even larger, though it did not log enough sessions to earn its own page here.

For the full spec sheet, see the sold boards list. For similar point-wave twins, see the Surman Dark Void 7'2 and the Campbell Designed Middle Toe. For the numbers behind sales like this one, see what 121 surfboards cost and sold for.