did i invet another SUP application...

[alap]

I was on my lake today - usual staff, paddling, turning, accelerating, walking the centerline. Usually I am trying to catch a wake from some wakeboard, but there was not many today (bad weather, cold, rain sometimes) then it dawned on me... Why wake, go for a tow!!!

the first boat that was approaching me, I waived, he stopped, he was a fisherman, coming to a dock. He gladly agreed to tow me, but he had a simple rope, no handle. Nevertheless I tried, it was so easy! He towed me and it was fun! The rope was hard on my palms so I let it go.

Then after a while a real boat appeared and I approached it as well. I mean real pro boat, with real pro skier (I saw him skiing afterwards). He was putting a wetsuit, I asked, he throwed me real skiline with a handle . I gave him a paddle (just not to get in a way). He gave me few rides.

It were real rides. Easy!   As usual with SUP I was standing up to start with, and there was no need to go fast! 10 miles/hour was enough. 15 miles/hour was too much! 13 miles was the right speed for me - I never water skied before (and remember my surfing experience is limited to this year SUP only; I am good with downhill and with windsurfing, if this counts) . At 13 m/hour I was making turns and it was a wake, and I had to bend my knees for real (all in surfer's position).

So, as much as I hate to burn fuel it is certainly a very nice option, if just for crosstraining!

I see two advantages over usual waterskiing/wakeboarding:
1. its easy, because you already standing and one can smoothly accelerate, no need to go fast, before you can glide on the surface - hence its easy for beginners
2. because of the big board, the watersurface is so much bigger than with ski, and hence the required speed is so small, and there is no need for a wake actually, and as a result there is no need for huge 100 grand boat - anything will do (provided that it can go faster than 10 miles an hour)

[Andy]

Check this out



Sounds similar

Ride safe

Andy

[alap]

of course i saw this 3 months ago...

but this is very different - you need expensive boat. plus to catch this wake is not as easy as it seems - its easier for me to catch ocean wave than this.

being towed - u need no skills to start and you need cheap (very cheap) boat

[shapeshifter]

not only that but you've created a whole new word...

[stoneaxe]

You could do it behind a sailboat, eliminating the fuel issue. My brother...Ponobill...talks about taking a cruise down the coast from Hookipa to Hana using his Hobie adventure islands as support craft. Getting a little tired?...just hook up.

Sweet idea...be great for the summer flats in New England too.

[linter]

good one, shapeshifter!! !!