Pete is an Aussie that lives in the UK and he contacted me a couple of weeks ago and said he was coming to Melbourne for a week and wanted to join me for a paddle around St Kilda marina.
Yesterday Pete arrived and today we paddled.. Pete said he was bringing his own board on the plane with him and I wondered what sort of board this would be.. I asked if it was a wave board or a flatwater board and he said it was a new 12'6" RedAir inflatable race board.
I had seen a RedAir inflatable wave board years ago and didn't even know they made flatwater boards.. It turns out that inflatables is all RedAir make and they make a couple of different size 12'6" board.. I was pretty impressed after paddling it.
I gave Pete a lift back to where he was staying and before I even had my board on the roof of my car he had deflated and was rolling it up packing it into the bag.. I think I might have to concider getting an inflatable myself one day.
So DJ...the unanswered question...how does the Red stack up against the 12'6 Starby and Naish pump ups? Stiffer? Looks a tidy unit and those big aluminium battens look like they might do something.
So that's where Pete got to , lucky bugger ! He's a top bloke and we're proud to have him in the uk. At least while he's over there he can't be beating me in races over here !
