you seem to be talking quite a bit about surf, if your looking for a good boat in the surf that you'll use on rivers too look at a long boat with good rails, stay away from the likes of the project, agent, star, they're all too short (more for bouncing or really steep river waves) for what you want, go for something like s8, rX, etc, although a good one might be the crazy88, even ask mark- its one of the fastest boats on a wave that I've ever paddled. And like Slapper said, rad seems to be quite good.