I borrowed the 16ft super light SIC Standamaran yesterday of Mark Raaphorst for a Maliko run I was frothing like a little grommet with ADHD thats had a glass of red cottee’s cordial, as the weather maps were reading for the day light winds. For Maliko this is gold “Yes Please Mr Wizard” which is a good thing as the Standamaran likes wind 15 knots or lighter with small seas.
The Standamaran felt strange, very tippy but very stable! Made my legs feel like jelly but I was severally hungover anyway, paddling out through the gulch. It took me about 2k’s to get the hang of it, the glide was truly amazing on the siltiest bump The Standamaran would just take of and glide. I was lucky the swell where small, on a 2ft swells you would bury the nose of the Standamaran very deeply but the nose would glide out with ease I was even keeping up with guys on the Bullet. The last 5k’s coming into Kahului Harbour conditions got a bit brutal for the Standamaran to handle with wind gust of 20+ knots. When I made it into the harbour the wind was now 25+ knots guys on Bullets where struggling with the head wind the Standamaran just glided straight through it.
Today would have been a better day to test drive the Standamaran Maliko had light winds all day with a very small ocean swell.

Must be hard remembering not to go into surf stance..

DavidJohn said..
Must be hard remembering not to go into surf stance..

G'day DJ yes it was BULK HARD not going into surf stance. It's a real different Stance technique feeling, you needed a very good strong core strength, especially when the nose would pearl through the swells but would release with ease "it felt funny surfing in a balance stance." But the glide you would get was amazing and you didn’t even have to paddle hard at all to get the Standamaran moving. It was a very fun and challenging paddle.

If you like paddling into the wind the STADAMARAN is the SUP for you.

Forget the standamaran,where is Wilson