Hello all, my family and I are visiting Hawaii in October for 10 days. I'm staying in Waikiki for 7 days and was wondering who is the best to hire a SUP & paddle from? I've heard good things about Blue Planet Surf and a local guy recommends Hans Hedermann. Hopefully I can catch some waves whilst I'm over there

what beaches work for SUP,S in the winter ?

Thanks Exiled, arrive on the 18th so will probably and hopefully catch the last two days of the Pipe comp and then get into some serious SUP waves myself. Was there about three years ago but it was July so mostly supped outside the Hilton and everywhere in between there and Waikiki.

Blue Planet were superb last time so will be hitting them up again.

Phil

Sure thing. Not sure what people consider serious sup waves. Unless you already have the chops to handle pipeline on a shortboard I wouldn't think about touching it with a sup. For the most part, if you are competent and friendly enough you can surf most breaks, but the level of competence expected to surf some of the more famous breaks is pretty high.

There are uncrowded breaks on the north shore, but they aren't going to be pipeline, and they aren't going to be consistent. But when everything is right they can be pretty nice:
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/SUP/Four-hour-session-in-four-minutes/
Probably one of the best days at that particular break last year.

Rossall said..
Is that Puena point in the video, looks sick

Naw, never that empty there. Puena is nice because it is consistent, and its one of the last spots to close out on a big swell, but you'll never see it that empty. The spot in that video needs the right swell direction and the rare day with no wind for it to break like that. Its also a long paddle and notoriously sharky, which helps thin the crowds.

Cheers everybody