Mr Float.....

how many times do we have to repeat our selves ???

PS thanks for the demo on the griffin......very sweet

I bought an 11'6" to start with. It was fun but I got sick of lugging this huge thing around and lifting it into my garage board storage rack.

I live 600m from the beach and I could just make it to the beach carrying the board on my shoulder.

I now have a custom built 8'11" surf SUP and it weighs 5.6kg. I can easily carry it down the beach and it's great in the surf. It fits in the car for trips down the coast. It's ok on flat water, a bit like riding a mountain bike on the flat instead of a road bike.

I still have a hankering for a 12'6" raceboard for doing downwinders and getting the great feeling as the board slices through the water as I flex my glistening muscles in the sunlight like a tribal warrior. (Excuse me while I have a quiet moment alone. ) Maybe when they get cheaper and lighter (sounds like some women I know.)

wave knave said...

Mr float said...

I thought that one of the reasons that people (and ex poleys ) get into kiting is for the the lack of large cumbersome gear ,yet now humungous surfboards resembling battleships and paddles that weigh a ton and cost a small fortune are being heavily marketed at(and shock horror being taken up by ) kiters .(Having said that I do plan to get an inflatable one of these to take to fiji for the no wind days ,and for river rapids when I escape ) www.islandinflatables.com.au/product-type/stand-paddle-boards

try not to worry about it too much,
if you dont want to do it, you dont have to.

yes but I do ,and I like to travel on planes ,the pump up option looks like a good one

theDoctor said...



you should like the inflatable

much like yourself, its just full of air

thanks

I am an ex sailboarder who now kites but 35 years after a shoulder recon I had to give up surfing and adopted goat boats " wave skis" which are now nearly extinct. I reckon some bright spark on a standup board will say if I put a blade on both ends of the paddle it would be easier. Maybe if I sit down to lower the centre of gravity to make it more stable.
Voila deja vu all over again. A wave ski reinvented. Now if I can only find my flared pants.

i don't get what your talking about

sorry don't see it, there was a pretty good reason surfboard lengths came down back when jeff hakman was king