MY REDNECK SUP FRIEND

I'm outta here like shit thru a goose! Off to the East Cape of Baja for 10 dayz of surfing and kicking back. No SUP boards on this trip (to big for the plane) just my little 6'6" tri fin. I'm gonna work that little board like a farm animal after only surfing SUP boards the past 3 years. I'm kinda looking forward to it. Maybe someone down there will have some SUP boards that I could take out for a quick fix.

I will leave you with a politically incorrect quote from my redneck SUP friend...."I smoke a lot.I drink far too much.I don't exercise. I torture small animals."

FUNNY HA HA OR FUNNY WEIRD!?

I took the hot pink SUP sponge board out for a spin this morning. Pretty in pink? I don't think so but the board worked surprisingly good. Floats like a cork and turns on a dime. It could be a nice addition to the quiver for friends or a great SUP board for rental. Note the prone surfers with wetsuits. It aint so cold when your out of the water. Word!!

SANTA BARBARA IN THE HOUSE

This pic was taken about a year ago at my friends restaurant on the beach in Santa Barbara. All the boards are Ron House and their proud owners. If you are ever in town come down to the Shoreline Cafe for some good food and watch the SUP guys right out front.

Yes, the pic quality sucks. It's a bad pic of a good pic.

IN THE HOUSE!!

I hooked a friend up with Ron House the other day and he made the drive down south to pick up his new House SUP board yesterday. It's 9' feet long and 27" wide. Now that's what I'm talking about! You want a SUP board that surfs and you have the ability to stand on one of these little boards this is it. I was out with Wayne yesterday when he arrived back in town and he jumped right in the surf and was having a blast. The board he had before was a 12' beast so this is a radical change for him. I was surprised at how well he was doing. The only comment he had was that he will start wearing a wetsuit now due to the extra time in the water.

Hey Wayne, how old is that dog in the pic! My guess would be about 38 years old.

SPONGE BOARD SQUARE PANTS

My buddy Kelly has a new line of soft sponge SUP boards. They are called "Beach Bum SUP". We drove down to Oceanside yesterday and picked up the first batch. The sizes are 10',11' and 12'. We are going to take them to the beach today and give them a test run. I think it's a great idea and the price is of course much less than an epoxy SUP board. Good luck Kelly!!

ROAD TRIP

In a past post I talked about my trips down to San Clemente to hook up with my good friend Ron House and SUP San Onofre (Dogpatch). Well after that post I started thinking that I was due for another trip so I packed my car last night and took off at 3:00am this morning. Yes, that was damn early but my friend was flying to Maui out of LAX so I dropped him at the airport at 4:30am and headed to San Onofre. I meet Ron there at 6:30am and we surfed for about 2 hours. It was great to see Ron and find out the latest news regarding his paddle boards. He is shaping some bad ass SUP boards now!! I surfed a 9' footer and it kicked ass!! It was only 27" wide. If you go short on a SUP board it doesn't do you any good to go super wide. If I ordered one of these 9' footers I would only go 28' wide. I weigh 185. You can see by the pics above that these boards are made to surf.

FLAT WATER FUN

It's super cool to see my son having a good time on the SUP board. We go up to our cabin in the Sierras every summer and since the SUP boards have come around I look forward to the trips even more. The boards on the lake have added a whole new reason to head for the hills.

Good old dayz

It's hard to believe that 3 years ago can be called the good old days but in the case of SUP boarding it is the case! Sure the sport has been around for a hundred years or something like that but the modern, surf style SUP board is still new. 3 years ago when you went out on your SUP board it was still a novelty to all the prone surfers. I even think they thought it was cool. Imagine that! The pics above were from a road trip we took to San Onofre around 2 and a half or 3 years ago. We would hook up with Ron House and grab the SUP boards we ordered 6 weeks before and bring friends with us that wanted to meet Ron House and order their SUP boards. They would order the boards and 6 weeks later we would pack up and do another road trip. Damn that was fun!

BlueLine Quiver

These are my 3 SUP board sizes ranging from the 10'2" noserider to the 11' all around board. I use the 10' when I am not on my Naish boards. You can see on the roof of my van the two Naish SUP boards. I love all my boards and it is always tough to decide the board for the day. The funny thing is I have even more SUP boards in my back yard. I think it's time to sell a few.

Top secret spanker with fins?

Check out this paddle with fins! Is this the new way to go? I'll have to find out how it works and post the results.