Hesitation

I've got a $1400 board on the way, and I'm getting into climbing, and it's been a terrible spring for surfing. All these things have combined in my head and I was ready to sell off a few surfboards. I say was, because as I was scraping wax and composing my craigslist addvert in my head, the story I was telling made me think I want to hold onto these boards a bit longer.
I was considering selling the Buttons and the Wheelright. These are two single fin boards in the shape of the 70's transition shapes. I've learned from riding these boards that they work well in hollow waves when all I want to do is sit deep. The narrow tails stall back into the pocket without as much up the face twisting as wider tailed boards. The wide point forward helps them drop into waves, but the rocker makes it hard to make late drops because they are longer but flat and don't handle the transition at the bottom of the wave. Something about the tail or rails makes it hard to take the late drop more sideways, like I can do on my Haut2.
But, when things come together the Buttons feels so good in hollow waves. It's just not floaty enough to be a bigger wave board at OB. I've taken it out on bigger days and the current was too much for me to move around. The Wheelright would probably have enough paddle, but it's a bit to big to duckdive solidly. I feel like I'd like to have a board that is in the middle, but until then, maybe I should keep them both...
No hesitation on giving up the kneeboard. I should probably gift it to someone on the kneeboarding website. I had some great waves on that board, but the last time I surfed it the feeling was so foreign that I didn't want to be riding it.
So I need to get my head strait and then get to posting on craigslist. I should also to a bit of lurking first to see what I should charge for these boards. My sense is that used boards aren't selling for as much because the economy is still slow.

A new kind of quiver

When climbing the rock faces like those at Yosemite, a lead climber puts devices into cracks in the rock, and then connects the rope to the devices. These devices are intended to catch a falling climber. There are different shapes and styles of these devices, and just as many companies that make these different devices. Every climber that wants to do this kind of climbing needs to buy many of these devices and the climber's collection is called their "rack."

Why am I talking about this? Well, on my 35th birthday my wife organized a trip to the local climbing gym. I was hooked right away because it offered consistent hours, convenient location, and physical challenges, among other things. Last weekend I took a two day class to learn the skills to climb outside. Now it's time to build my own rack. For the price of a new surfboard I can have a decent starter rack that would get me outside. That's still around $500, which isn't money I can throw around, so I'm considering selling off some of my quiver to build my rack. My goal is a multi-pitch single day climb in Yosemite, and it may happen this summer or next. After that I'll be able to re-asses my interest in the sport. My concern is that the rock doesn't change so after doing a particular climb a few times it may become boring. In that case to find more excitement you have to go find a different rock somewhere. The advantage to surfing is that once you find a surf spot, every day and every wave is a bit different. Ocean Beach is the extreme example of this.

At the moment I'm more interested in buying the climbing gear than selling some surf gear, but I think both should happen. I'm ready to clear out the kneeboard, the spare 70's backyard board, and the Buttons board. That would leave me the flexspoon project, the GeeBee, the Haut2, the QQ Hess and the Pacheco Hess which is on the way. I'd move the Haut2 to Santa Cruz to have in case I'm ever there without a board. I'd be willing to part with the QQ if I could get a reasonable offer, and the 4 board massive reduction in quiver size would help justify the purchase of a Hess SFOB semi-gun for those 8-12' heavy current days. I'm not sure if I would be able to handle those days even with the right board, but I'd like to be able to. Hopefully climbing will keep me in a bit better shape for surfing (as compared to doing nothing.)