Thread: SUP

**strawjack** · 07-19-2010, 02:30 PM

i just bought one, pretty stoked. i bought for my wife and kids, so the thing is bomber...don't even know what it is! my bud who owns the shop just handed it to me and said 'this one'. probably grab a better 'surf' model soon as we have nice point break when the waves are right, but it's tough to ride on a regular board. it breaks nicely, then dies a little, then picks back up. paddle should help a lot and give a nice long ride.

**hop** · 07-20-2010, 11:02 AM

You are now part of the problem.

**skideeppow** · 07-20-2010, 11:09 AM

Love doing this on the river. I have two inflatables.

**strawjack** · 07-20-2010, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by hop

You are now part of the problem.

no, you have it backwards. you are the problem. stay the fuck off my beach!

**My Pet Powder Goat** · 07-20-2010, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by strawjack

no, you have it backwards. you are the problem. stay the fuck off my beach!

LOL ...but no serial. please, i implore you, don't become one of those SUP dicks that paddles out 20 yard past the lineup, stealing every decent looking wave and riding right into the lineup and hitting us in the head with your paddle. shit's starting to get old.

i'm sure thats not you tho!

**strawjack** · 07-20-2010, 02:03 PM

^ f-no! again, bought it for the wife...exercise/chill time on flat water mostly. i do want to hit this pt break though...surfed it a few times with not much luck and hit it during hurricanes w/ my whitewater boat where the paddle helped a ton. its a goofy break, but always empty...which is nice.

**Scrubadub** · 07-20-2010, 02:27 PM

Yo skideeppow...what SUP do you use on the river? is that an inflatable Sevylor Samoa? How much do you weigh for flotation?

**skideeppow** · 07-20-2010, 02:52 PM

i wieght about 205, dog is 80
i had a c4 watermand isup, they told me it could hold someone who is 225, they were wrong, i sent it back. i sunk that thing big time.
that board in the picture is a plank, i did just order an isup from this guy in CA, and it is 33.5" wide, 10'1" long

Hugh Conway · 07-20-2010, 03:43 PM

would SUP

**Tunco** · 07-20-2010, 05:44 PM

Gerry Lopez

**My Pet Powder Goat** · 07-20-2010, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by strawjack

^ f-no! again, bought it for the wife...exercise/chill time on flat water mostly. i do want to hit this pt break though...surfed it a few times with not much luck and hit it during hurricanes w/ my whitewater boat where the paddle helped a ton. its a goofy break, but always empty...which is nice.

My bad. I didn't actually read the whole post. I just had to vent about the SUPers at York beach last week

**Core Shot** · 07-20-2010, 07:55 PM

**My Pet Powder Goat** · 07-20-2010, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by Core Shot

nice! ...but that actually looks like it takes talent.

**Core Shot** · 07-20-2010, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat

nice! ...but that actually looks like it takes talent.

Dave Kalama, legendary waterman

**supermodel159** · 07-20-2010, 09:26 PM

Please sweep on rivers only

**Ottime** · 07-21-2010, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by tief schnee

Gerry Lopez

Gerry is not a real surfer.

Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat

My bad. I didn't actually read the whole post. I just had to vent about the SUPers at York beach last week

York, ME? They allow SUP in that surf zone? That is fucked. One of you should get hit and sue the city over it. They force surfers into a small small section of the beach so that you don't hurt beach combers (tourons), and then they are going to add SUP to the same zone.

Honesty if you are going to surf SUP, the north end off the cobblestones is the way to go.

I always hated going down there. You could see a perfect outside peak 20 yards up the beach, but get hassled by life guards who can barely swim in the ocean, for being dangerous.

At Wells, we had not such rules, and after a few surf rescues during 'cainne swells, we were buds with the life guards... at least the lifeguard ladies.

No SUP in the line up. Otherwise, they are fine. I imagine they would be fun to paddle in estuaries.

**My Pet Powder Goat** · 07-21-2010, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by Ottime

Gerry is not a real surfer.

York, ME? They allow SUP in that surf zone? That is fucked. One of you should get hit and sue the city over it. They force surfers into a small small section of the beach so that you don't hurt beach combers (tourons), and then they are going to add SUP to the same zone.

Honesty if you are going to surf SUP, the north end off the cobblestones is the way to go.

I always hated going down there. You could see a perfect outside peak 20 yards up the beach, but get hassled by life guards who can barely swim in the ocean, for being dangerous.

At Wells, we had not such rules, and after a few surf rescues during 'cainne swells, we were buds with the life guards... at least the lifeguard ladies.

No SUP in the line up. Otherwise, they are fine. I imagine they would be fun to paddle in estuaries.

The lifeguard actually came out on the weekend and told the SUP to scram but not on the weekday. We were at the North end of long sands. it was humping and cleaner then the wall, Oqunquit, etc.

SUP would be real cool in the estuaries, I always wonder how cool it would be to Kiteboard in some of the larger areas