There's a new player in town. $288. w/ paddle and stoke

[TallDude]

For $11.00 less then the Costco sup, Walmart has this to offer.

[deepmud]

Retractable fins? Creek sup!

[bigdom]

at 40lb they are very heavy !

[Night Wing]

And at 35.5" in width, way too wide.

[PonoBill]

They've been around for a while. Rotomolded poly. Super ugly. Can't believe anyone would buy one.

[supuk]

I have to admit these plastic boards interest me a lot. recently I have been paddling my soul firestorm and while it wont go in a straight line for shit and it weights a ton its very practical and fun. You don't have to worry hardly at all about dinging it, you can slide down river banks into the water, there is stacks of storage inside for picnics warm clothes, shoes ect you can paddle over sunken trees and branches with no worries and it is so ridiculously stable you can stand literally any were on it and be fine. I think I would rather have one of these than some of the shity I sups or even shitter china build standard construction style boards plus at $288 its hardly going to de value much! If they were in the shops here I would buy one for the wife so I can relax when we go up the rivers and know she is not going to ding my nice race boards

[Area 10]

Yep, sit-on-top kayaks have their place, and so will these. I agree it's a bit too wide, and at 40lbs you'd better be able-bodied. And you wouldn't want to be at Pipeline with one of these. But at that price you can't really go wrong for certain recreational activities, especially up rivers etc. Anything that gets people into the sport for next to nothing has got to be a good thing IMO. Better that they buy this than join the ICF or ISA (with apologies for the thread blurring!)

[PonoBill]

I've got a poly river board--don't remember who makes it. I rarely use it. It's a good thing it's bombproof because it's so heavy the only practical way for me to unload with my crappy shoulders it is to push it off the rack and then drop it off the rocks into the river. You can't tell I've done that dozens of times, so yeah, bombproof.

[TallDude]

And talk about an 'old player', I looked up Supuk's  'soul firestorm' and look who surfaced.

http://www.canoekayak.com/whitewater-kayak/words-corran-addison/#ZGD4FiCyZSM2BFKm.97

[SUP Sports ®]

They've been around for a while. Rotomolded poly. Super ugly. Can't believe anyone would buy one.

LOL...;-)

Here's part of the SUP quiver of what one of Wal-Mart's owners personally standup paddles...;-)