What was your first SUP board?

[Byronmaui]

My introduction started with a 11 foot mana longboard. Technically my first real SUP board was a Jimmy Lewis 11 footer. Boy was it fun.

What did you start off with?

Aloha

Byron

[capobeachboy]

Infinity tandem 11' X 26" X 4 3/8 and a whole lotta nose rocker.  Bought it in '95 and have surfed it with the wife, kids, dog, Surfer's Healing camps, and in '05 I made a crappy paddle and started SUP with it.  When I finally got a real paddle and board I couldn't help but think about the months of leg-burning sessions I had with that thing.  Makes me appreciate the new equipment so much more. 

[Andy]

Jimmy Lewis 11' but that was not that long ago..... since then I now have a C4 10'6" and a SOS 10'10" that will be hitting the water in the morning

Ride safe

Andy

[noworrieshawaii]

12' soft top bought for $350 from surf school.... Couldnt get boards couple years ago at all... Next was 12' Munoz...  Had fun but still waaaay to big.. Next was 9'6" PSH - Blane C. shape but now thats too big too. One of the first "little boards" around...  Ill keep it for back up board.  What a fun board... I've had a couple lightweight friends try it for their first time and were able to ride it no problem (in glass).  Looking to go 8'6" next (I'm 120lbs).

[Big Island Mike]

I lost mine with a KuNalu, then a Munoz, then it gets real... Scary!

[Scott Bass]

an 11' Munoz St in 2002 then the 12' MM but went back to the 11' then it got custom order time ...and and like Mike then it gets ...scary.

[Blane Chambers]

My first board was a Munoz Wood Veneer 12 footer.     Shortly afterwards I made my own I shaped out of the old Clark 12-8 Blank.    I remember shaping it thinking I must of walked for miles around and around that thing!     It came out nice but sooo heavy.       It was a super tanker!     I also bought another Munoz.      From then like Scott and Mike wrote....   It got scary.    I hand shaped and glassed a succession of boards every week for a few months.   Ride them a few times till the next was done...    I had no clue the birth of Paddle Surf Hawaii was right around the corner...   It just kinda happened....   I'm glad it did....   I can now be obsessed with making boards and its OK...  Hee hee!

My first hand shaped SUP.   12' x 28" x 5"     You can see the Wood Munoz on the rack...


Aloha,
Blane


www.paddlesurfhawaii.com

[lawaia]

12' Surftech Munoz.  At the time, I did not think that I would ever get the hang of it.

[noworrieshawaii]

looks like a bunch of us started on the 12' Munoz....  way back in the beginning, it was one of the few boards around..  Didnt have much trouble with it but then I'm a lightweight.

[HaleiwaBill]

My very first board was actually part of Mike's "scary" seemingly endless quiver. It was 16' Angulo race board and was wonderful for bigger guy like me to start learn on. I still love that size SUB and one day hope to buy one for myself to race.

Then like so many others my second board was 12' Munoz. I scored that one from our North Shore chiropractor (Bob Kennedy). I actually bought it for my wife but "trained" on it for a few months before I bought my own SUB.

My 3rd board is really the first SUB I bought for myself. It is a 10'4" Blane Chambers and most definitely was designed for high performance surfing. I am still growing into the board but absolutely love it!