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SUP General / Re: SIC Bullet or Starboard Airline (or neither)
« on: December 20, 2023, 09:16:38 AM »
make sure the psi is up. Alabama 650 finisher John Knippers uses his 17 Bullet Isup to carry loads of dogs with him :D  so maybe it's something you can get used to and enjoy. Stability is its own speed and I know he finished the 650 on that board vs his Unlimited Speedboard so there must be some advantage there.

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Random / Re: Ready for the Metaverse?
« on: December 19, 2023, 03:11:04 PM »
Stillllll haven't done the deed :D
Looking hard at the Immersed in-house product: https://www.visor.com/shop

Still not sure my company will let me connect these to the company PC :( Having to get it on the PC and transmitting to WiFi will make them unhappy - mostly because they think different is bad.

this guy has it set up about how I would want mine - and it 2021 he had been doing it over  2 years.

https://medium.com/immersedteam/working-from-orbit-39bf95a6d385

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General Discussion / Re: Moving
« on: December 18, 2023, 03:29:39 PM »
I forgot - I had to weld up my "new" trailer in NY - the tongue was "up" about 3 or 4 inches and starting to buckle the walls and fail hard. I think it was starting to bend after the AlCan - but these newer trailers have lot of failed tongues on them - lucky for me it held till I was parked at my in-laws for several weeks and could deal with it. I have a wire-feed emergency type trail welder - turns out it will work on a couple of 200AH Lithium-Iron batteries as well as it does (maybe better) than traditional lead-acid. Ugly welds but deep penetration and I paid the $$ for cold-rolled plate to rebuild with. Oh - and a spring broke :D That was no surprise. Swapped springs too. Too much time fixing to paddle as much as I had hoped. Working on the EST zone with Alaskans is weird - plenty of time in the mornings but I am online to 8-9pm at night. Next time I take more PTO and hopefully break fewer things :D

EDIT: For my wife - bringing a clean bathroom along is worth the 11mpg :D For me being able to pull into a rest stop and grab 3 hours of sleep in a real bed is amazing - I don't drive 24 hours without sleep anymore but 3 here and 3 there and 6 there.... I can rack up some miles. BTW - the highways are STUFFED with long haul trucks. The economy is on fire - there just cannot be that much crap rolling on the highways and not be selling a ton of EVERYTHING. The truck drivers can barely get a place to pull over for mandatory stops - all the truck stops, all the rest stops and a ton of off-ramps and on-ramps are full of trucks every night, 7 days a week. SO MANY TRUCKS. No wonder I was paying 5 to 6 bucks a gallon for diesel - there is HUGE demand - so many many many many trucks. We need Tesla trucks just to cut into the demand for fuel - they won't be replacing that many trucks for a long long time but it would help a little. Speaking of electricity - the wind farms  -  holy moly - at night, the red indicator lights are in sync - it's a little spooky to see that much flashing red simultaneously horizon to horizon.

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General Discussion / Re: Moving
« on: December 18, 2023, 03:05:58 PM »
Well - arrived in Montesano, a few weeks later cross-country to NY, near Oneida/Syracuse. Paddled an old bit of Erie Canal for fun :) Back across the US - stopped and visited John Knippers, first SUP to finish the Alabama 650 (please vote for John for SUP Best Male Performance of the Year - he went and did Last Paddler Standing a few weeks later too! No big support or team, he did get Speedboard to sponsor him a board after 2nd place in Last Paddler Standing last year https://www.totalsup.com/news/totalsup-awards-2023/?j=78574&sfmc_sub=191134&l=882_HTML&u=1241592&mid=546000330&jb=1003  only a hundred votes behind the leader ) Then back across the US (travel a couple days, work 3-5, drive again) to California - Oceano, caught covid and after a week hit the highway north to park in Washington again. Busy with work, mooch-docking off my mom :D and looking at what my long term options are. At this point, I'm still Alaskan, just traveling. Some land on Puget Sound is possible if I can make the numbers work. Paddled a few times here on the Chehalis River - had to dodge a couple huge Sea Lions who were diving for salmon - that was surprising so many miles from the ocean. Also quite a few harbor seals - much less scary ;)  I also saw a couple Eagles last time out - which was not surprising until I thought about where I am vs where I used to be :D Winter paddling here is like fall/spring in Alaska - my dry suit is too hot :D at 44f air temps. I'm out of shape but I am slowly getting over the moving/traveling/sitting on my butt all day.

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Random / Re: Ready for the Metaverse?
« on: October 10, 2023, 01:54:14 PM »
I didn't pull the trigger on Meta Quest Pro at $1500 - then it was $1000 - still haven't actually pinged my security dept - I'm so sure they will say "no" - it's the easy option .....

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Downwind and Racing / Alabama 650
« on: October 10, 2023, 09:43:50 AM »
It's not the absolute longest (Yukon 1000 - Bart DeZwart! ) or longest unsupported ( Race to Alaska is unsupported and 750 miles of salt/ocean- go Karl Kruger! ) - I think it's the longest non-stop river race, or paddle-only non-stop race - and 650 miles in a CAR is a race! First time a sup has finished, and two of them made it. John Knippers is a down-to-earth dude with just incredible stamina and good attitude. https://www.alabamascenicrivertrail.com/great-alabama-650/
All the "live stuff" I can find seems to be Facebook.  https://www.facebook.com/GreatAlabama650
https://www.facebook.com/GreatAlabama650/posts/pfbid0bGRSwh4ewuNPRTDKsJjEafsQHeyPJnHEYsp1YPug1HzaSta3vVvV8X8zULn9xVTNl

https://trackleaders.com/alabama650-23i.php?name=John_Knippers

He started on a 19' Speedboard - finished on his inflatable 17' SIC -not sure when/why he switched out.

2nd SUP  - and no slouch - Brad Friesen of Canada
 

https://trackleaders.com/alabama650-23i.php?name=Brad_Friesen



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General Discussion / Re: Moving
« on: August 31, 2023, 10:09:16 PM »
I'm going to miss the challenge of subzero paddling I think. I survived the Alaska Highway, arriving 2:30am 8/27. My V10 Touareg is a beast. I overloaded the rv a bit but had upgraded the tires and  suspension and added bumpstops. Since it ended up sitting on the bumpstops,  they were critical to surviving the severe frost heaves of the first 1500 miles or so. The Touareg was smooth and handles a 9k+ trailer easy, a 150mph tug boat with Brembo calipers.

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General Discussion / Re: Moving
« on: August 20, 2023, 12:14:47 AM »
Couple more

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General Discussion / Moving
« on: August 20, 2023, 12:13:10 AM »
Been in Alaska most of my life, 29 years in the current house. Packing/Selling/Dumping/Giving everything away is a huge pain, and physically I'm never going to be able to do this ever again. All the good things SUP does for me have been put on hold.  Good news is I'm 100% working from home  and have lots of options.  Mom's yard is stage 1 for now, in Gray's Harbor area of Washington,  near Olympia.  I had a tantrum and insisted I needed one more paddle up here and got 3 hours in on Friday. Super pretty our, and the salmon were in the creeks to make it fun .

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Flatwater and Touring / Short video, Spring on the Knik 2023
« on: May 02, 2023, 02:24:19 AM »
Still working on the best ways to use the invisible stick camera. I think I need some secure mounts on the nose,tail and some that can stick it out to the side and just stop and remount it every so often. On this trip I lost my Sony RX100ii and didn't realize it fell off. I usually just grab it or go bsck forit. But this isnt a lake. It went places and i didn't catch the moment it abandoned ship. I paddled 4 miles or so downriver trying to find it, and back up in the current and shallows was  a beotch. Fun fact,  a trapper (beaver, 😉 seriously ) found it yesterday and posted up to find the owner. A chain of 3 more people and I was meeting up to get it. Facebook doesn't always suck.
Video just ends, I ran out of battery. But it's interesting,cold and pretty and not too long at 2 minutes. 😀 https://youtu.be/H-cdC0JbnjY

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Sound works for me. Just better than generic jangly phone music 😀
Yes Creek, I usually get a ride/drop a car there. This was the same run that I do in winter, but without a long hike across to the shore, bonus of ice having melted lol. The current is tough to run against,  about 4mph. Winter is slower and I've round tripped before,  but so shallow it's pretty tough to do .

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I mean, I think I need to find the old raw footage now.
https://youtu.be/fySJqUfZnRg

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Flatwater and Touring / Re: Insta360 3x for Christmas
« on: March 28, 2023, 09:13:18 PM »
Lol just don't forget to remove any drag points like a camera waist belt 🤣 Daaaaang this forum and "no editing " faaaawk autocomplete. Typing on a phone in a hurry and now I can't even tell what I meant to type 🙃

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Flatwater and Touring / Re: Insta360 3x for Christmas
« on: March 28, 2023, 11:05:05 AM »
Another short video. It's not an especially interesting day. But I tried some different angles and views, and went with the square format. From the raw footage you can select different aspect ratios as well as the different directions.  Lo
Looking ahead then to the side just takes two edits, and if an eagle happens to fly overhead,  you can go get that view as well. The electronic stabilization is amazing.  Only the waist belt mount is able to overcome the stabilizer,  and even then,the landscape holds level, but I wave back and forth across the screen instead,  unless I really focus on paddling "wrong" and isolate the stroke to my arms. I stuck it wayyyy out front by wrapping my waist mount around the board.  Great for working out, I'm sure. 😀 But inspired of bouncing around on the end of a flexy selfie stick, the image is stable, and not the typical GoPro shot of the paddler looming overhead.  A long board helps but a shorter one would work , just have the camera 3 feet out over the water. I am sure it would be neat for you surfers. So. 3 minutes, and just bail out at 2 minutes if you'd rather not watch me draf the board back to the car 😀. All you flatwater paddlers will like how I slide over a bunch  of branches with my flip-up kayak fin (skeg? If not steering? ). https://youtu.be/mdsJ0gtPiS0

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SUP General / Re: New Starboard Sprint Airline Inflatables
« on: March 28, 2023, 10:42:45 AM »
I don't have the rights or I'd offer it for you to use, Julian. That waterway is really photogenic and there's random drone and other photographers there all the time, and my friends see the pics on Facebook and tag me. Sometimes I have the photographer's contact information if you ever want it I could check.
tarquin - cool! That was an annoying experiment in remote hosting on Google 😆  so far not great but I'm glad it wasn't a total waste of time.

And I really do like the Airline.  If my fat 275lb butt can maintain 5mph over a mile, it's not too slow an inflatable! My 18ft Bark is only a little bit faster,  like only gains a few tenths mph average. And the Airline packs up way better 😀 I just wish Starboard sold assessories and parts. I like their tie downs they put on my Airline and would buy more,  for instance.

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