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Re: Off Topic: I had been standing all day . . . .
By:Malcolm Schweizer
Date: 9/10/2013, 9:00 pm
In Response To: Re: Off Topic: I had been standing all day . . . . *PIC* (Kurt Maurer)

And a guy in a K1 can go faster than you. Does that make him better? If people are having fun and exercising paddle boarding then mission accomplished. At least they are not sitting on the couch yelling at the TV. I have made many epic kayak journeys paddling many miles of open ocean, but my first time on a paddle board I was sore as heck the next day. It works different muscles. It is a much better ab workout and of course legs too. Believe me, I never thought I'd say this, but overall SUP's are a better workout if you are just out to tone muscles.

The majority of the paddle boards out there are really surfboards. There are some very fast displacement hull paddle boards. Your canoe would suck in 8' surf. Planing hull boards suck in flat water. However, displacement hulls in general are tippy, so beginners should stick with the planing hull for stability, and so they make boards to please the masses, no different from a lot of kayak and canoe companies.

Anyway, kayaking is my primary sport of choice, but as you all know, I design, build, and paddle SUP's too. Mostly I use the SUP for surfing offshore breaks but I also use it to work the abs. The new Bullet displacement hull is a race board and fast as heck, but for experts only, as it is extremely tippy. It paddles great as a sit on top so I use it as such more than an SUP, which was part of my plan all along. It's to SUp's as a K1 is to kayaks.

To be fair, however, I hate the general masses (i.e. tourists/couch potatoes/ wannabes) on SUP's as much as I hate the general masses in kayaks. I prefer they choose SUP's so we don't have to do assisted rescues, although I have seen many tourists who couldn't get back on a SUP once they fell off. At least on a SUP they fall off first thing right at shore! In kayaks they often manage to get a good ways out before disaster hits. So hush now and quit trying to convert them to kayaks unless you want to spend all day doing kayak rescues! :-)

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Dave Gentry -- 9/9/2013, 9:38 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 9/9/2013, 10:01 am
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Kurt Maurer -- 9/9/2013, 7:10 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 9/10/2013, 12:00 pm
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Greg_H -- 9/10/2013, 12:12 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 9/10/2013, 12:32 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/10/2013, 12:56 pm
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Ken Blanton -- 9/10/2013, 6:42 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/10/2013, 11:06 pm
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Ken Blanton -- 9/11/2013, 3:13 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/11/2013, 5:03 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 9/11/2013, 7:05 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/15/2013, 2:13 am
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Noel Bennett -- 9/13/2013, 11:32 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/14/2013, 9:57 am
COLREGS not colleges- autocorrect! *NM*
Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/14/2013, 9:58 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/15/2013, 2:18 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/15/2013, 10:27 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/16/2013, 1:36 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/15/2013, 12:04 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/15/2013, 1:23 pm
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Noel Bennett -- 9/17/2013, 11:39 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/11/2013, 1:34 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/10/2013, 9:00 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 9/10/2013, 9:39 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/11/2013, 4:08 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 9/11/2013, 7:15 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/11/2013, 7:55 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/12/2013, 4:06 am
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Kurt Maurer -- 9/12/2013, 8:17 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 9/12/2013, 10:44 pm
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John Messinger -- 9/13/2013, 7:19 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/13/2013, 9:33 am
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Etienne Muller -- 9/13/2013, 9:44 am
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Kurt Maurer -- 9/13/2013, 9:57 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/13/2013, 10:48 am
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Robert Horstmann -- 9/15/2013, 10:50 am
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Etienne Muller -- 9/15/2013, 3:32 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/16/2013, 1:45 am
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ancient kayaker -- 9/16/2013, 7:40 am
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Greg_H -- 9/11/2013, 1:14 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 9/11/2013, 9:54 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/11/2013, 10:41 pm
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scottbaxter -- 9/11/2013, 11:04 pm
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Nick Riccardi -- 9/12/2013, 8:15 am
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Sean Dawe -- 9/13/2013, 11:06 am
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Sean Dawe -- 9/13/2013, 11:06 am
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Etienne Muller -- 9/13/2013, 12:18 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 9/12/2013, 2:20 am
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Robert Horstmann -- 9/12/2013, 9:59 am
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Kurt Maurer -- 9/12/2013, 8:09 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/15/2013, 2:28 am
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Thor -- 9/11/2013, 11:29 pm