Hey DJ, thanks for hanging back with the newbies, your advice and encouragement was much appreciated and I'm sure you would have loved to be belting along with Jonathan. It was a blast and though the side chop was a hassle it was the most fun I have had on a SUP to date, this downwind thing really is a blast.
Big thanks to SHQ for letting young Jono demo the 12'6 JP, he didn't fall off once unlike his old man

who tested the water temperature on several occasions. I want him to write a review about the board but it will have to wait as it is the last night before school holidays are over so he is paddling upwind through that pile of homework that he thought it best to leave until now

thanks again and bring on those summer northerlies
Cheers Mel