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Gear Talk / Re: flexable skeg for exploring rivers?
« on: July 03, 2014, 06:27:54 PM »
What about removing the skeg completely? Will the length alone still make it track pretty straight?

I have all 3 lengths & they all act different.

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Gear Talk / Re: flexable skeg for exploring rivers?
« on: July 02, 2014, 10:10:02 PM »
Paddling rivers is one reason why I went inflatable. The Lakeshore ISUP has a fin box like the NRS ISUPs. And you can get 3 different sizes, all of which are tough plastic. And their stupid cheap.

http://www.nrs.com/product/86101.02/nrs-sup-board-fins

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Gear Talk / Re: Paddle Questions
« on: June 26, 2014, 06:00:11 PM »
I had 2 CF paddles from LakeShore fail.  Teaching a buddy to paddle & he fell on one, broke the blade off...... then I twisted the handle off the other. Both could be repaired but were an inch or two shorter at that point.

So I tried the Werner Advantage. The thing is tough as nails. I've been using one for a couple years now, paddled many many miles, dropped it off the rack to the concrete, banged it on rocks on the river banks, drug it in the sand & they keep on keepin on. I like that their made in WA state (a few hundred miles from me), and have a long history with other paddlesports.

I'm about 6'1" & 225 lbs. and figured I should be looking at their bigger blades. I can lean on it for support, get good powerful strokes out of it, and it seems to enter/exit the water really cleanly when I paddle it that way. I like the contour of the handle. The 82" is great for me, especially since I'm usually leaning forward for power or bending my knees to balance. Not the lightest weight, but feels good in your hands.

Somehow I ended up with an adjustable Advantage too. Same blade, but shorter shaft that extends to 82". As your hands slide up & down the shaft, you can really feel the seam between the 2 pieces & the holes to set the length as they are pretty sharp. It's annoying to me & makes me think about that rather than things that matter. So I like the fixed length better. Keep your old paddle for your friends & family to use.

Thats a great price.... about $50 less than I paid.

Good luck with your decision.

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Gear Talk / Re: sup car roof racks?
« on: May 30, 2014, 12:58:29 PM »
I made a couple of racks for a Chevy Avalanche & a hopped up golf cart. I tried pipe insulation the first time around but the sun & water makes it break down too easily. Plus I found they were really noisy at freeway speeds. Next try was wrapping the bar with rope.... I picked up a 100' bundle of colored rope at Home Depot for like $10. It's going on 3 yrs now & while it's a little faded on top, it has been great. Very tough & plenty of padding on the Thule square bars.



Most recent rack was a custom built roof rack that I put Jegs.com roll cage padding on. Then used colored duct tape to wrap it.... strictly for the effect. It's going on about 1.5 yrs old now & still looks great. The roll cage padding costs a little more but lasts far longer without breaking down.
http://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS-Performance-Products/555/70001/10002/-1



On the straps, I agree.... the NRS straps are by far the best ones I've used. Very tough, takes tons of abuse & not very expensive.
http://www.nrs.com/product/1440/nrs-1-hd-tie-down-straps

To the OP, I think I'd remove the cross bars from your rack & wrap tightly in rope. Really works well. And super quiet driving down the road.

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Whitewater and River SUP / Re: River SUP
« on: May 22, 2014, 03:33:40 PM »
I think laying on paddle board floating down turned out to be a lot more fun then I though. Tubes are a blast with a cooler of beer, but a SUP is a floating bed, and easily can strap cooler too. Just make sure fins are short or have no fins, because float rivers around here are usually low and can easily go right over hand bars if standing.

Yea, our float trips are like 2 or 3 hrs long so there is plenty of chances for me to standup, paddle around, visit other groups of people, paddle back to my own crew, sit down & have a beer or three, etc. Last year I took a 1 liter frozen gin & tonic. I did great for about 2/3s of the trip but was way too drunk to stand up at the end.... so I just hang on & hang out! Was a lot of fun though!
Oh, and a lot of times I have my wife's little 20 lb dog on the SUP with me too!

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Gear Talk / Re: LED Lights for a paddle board?
« on: May 22, 2014, 09:11:57 AM »
A SkySki buddy of mine is co-owner of that company. I see his Facebook pics all the time & it looks like they have a great time. He lives down in S Carolina & hangs out in Florida & the Keys a lot where they can get a lot of warm weather at night & use them often. Up here they would only be usable in late July & August.

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Whitewater and River SUP / Re: River SUP
« on: May 22, 2014, 09:01:49 AM »
Does this river have lots of people using it, like tubers? If its a river with tubers, then find some friends to float on tubes, and bring some beers. When river drops here I use my board instead of a tube to float and enjoy cold ones. 

I've done this quite a few times on the Coeur d'Alene River out of Albert's Landing. It's a great time & I'm usually the only one out of 100s of toobers doing the float. There are only 2 or 3 sections of the river where it gets a little whitewaterish & I just make a point to point the boat downstream & guide myself thru them. Hasn't ever been a problem. And many times I can paddle over to one side or the other, go back upstream & take it again. I usually rent one of the plastic rotomolded boards (like the Imagine Wizard) but have also used the Badfish MVP & the C4 Waterman iSUP. the C4 was a joke, but I suspect it wasn't inflated enough. The Wizard was great but too heavy to haul around easily. The Badfish was pretty fun. I think I'll be taking it on the LakeShore Heavenly Air iSUP I bought last fall. Will be interesting to see how it does.

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Gear Talk / Re: Dents on new board - Is this to be expected?
« on: May 21, 2014, 10:25:44 AM »
Hmmmm, so is there any reason why you couldn't put a carbon patch on any SUP? Then reapply the deck pad over the top of it?

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Gear Talk / Re: Dents on new board - Is this to be expected?
« on: May 20, 2014, 03:02:00 PM »
I had 2 LakeShores that dented & then the dent ballooned up. I had to repair both after a couple years.

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SUP General / Re: Bubble Under Pad - Repair Ideas?
« on: May 16, 2014, 11:28:19 AM »
If you cut it, then you better seal it or it will take on water.

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Gear Talk / Re: Some 14s and inflatables
« on: May 12, 2014, 03:26:31 PM »
Hahahah, hilarious.

Last summer we were at Lake Shasta (elevation 1067 ft) for a week or so skiing & paddlin. One of the guys had brought his Malibu ski boat from Reno. When he was prepping the boat to leave he deflated all his bumpers. He said they would blow up going over Donner Pass (elevation 7057 ft).

Later I wondered if he had problems with his tires too.

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Gear Talk / Re: Some 14s and inflatables
« on: May 12, 2014, 02:39:20 PM »
Most higher end iSUPs can take a lot more then recommended. Its like speed limit, a bit over and you are fine! I am sure some of the cheap ones on the market you might not want to push it, plus altitude and heat can be a factor.
I think your on there. But as much as I've looked around, that really isn't in print anywhere. This will be my first summer with an inflatable. I've watched the pressure pretty closely so far. If it's 60 degrees in the garage & 70 degrees outside, I will see a like 1 or 2 psi change. I'm wondering what it's going to be like when it's 60 in the garage & 100 outside!

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Gear Talk / Re: Some 14s and inflatables
« on: May 12, 2014, 01:50:36 PM »
Yea, I'm finding that most iSUPs don't say that you can pump them up over about 15 psi. Only a few actually note it, ie; Mistral, Starboard, & LakeShore to name a few.

iSUPs are still kind of the unknown too. So pumping them up that much isn't really that well documented yet.

I'm like 230 & don't have stability issues on the LakeShore though.

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Gear Talk / Re: Some 14s and inflatables
« on: May 12, 2014, 10:33:28 AM »
I bet that was fun to check out all those boards back to back to back. Especially the ability to compare how fast they are side by side.

Any idea what the iSUPs were inflated to? They are a LOT less bouncy when you get up to 17 or 18 or more psi. I have LakeShores Heavenly Air now & when it's inflated to 18 psi, it isn't a lot different than the foam/epoxy boards I've been on..... on a fairly calm lake anyway. I'm sure that changes the more wavy the water gets.

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British Columbia / Re: Orcas chase surfers out of the water
« on: May 12, 2014, 10:12:34 AM »
From a 19' boat in Dyes Inlet near Silverdale, WA. We had heard that J pod was there feeding on the chum coming down the river & decided to go check them out. It was unreal how friendly & curious they were.






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