Today’s Paddle

[XTski]

We headed down to Florida for some (spring training) paddle surfing at a sweet hidden gem of a beach, with plenty of sweet waves and pretty American women all around it was the shark that drew the most attention this day, shark was heading towards some unsuspecting surfers while people on the beach were trying to alert the surfers, a helicopter showed up and hovered overhead to try and warn those in the water.
we just got done surfing when the 1st shark was spotted and I went back out for another session with eyes peeled

 

[Ripitz]

Hey @Brownski, I’m not sure if you’ve seen these foldable downwind sails but it seems like they might come in handy.

Advanced Elements Rapid-Up Kayak Sail

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Or there’s always a golf umbrella

 

[Brownski]

Nice
I’ve seen that before
I was thinking about one of those two handed kites so I could roll it up and stow it when I want to go back to paddling

 

[tirolski]

The Hobie kayak sail works.

 

[Ripitz]

Fishkill Creek with Peanut on the way home from daycare

 

[sig]

Hey @Brownski, I’m not sure if you’ve seen these foldable downwind sails but it seems like they might come in handy.

Advanced Elements Rapid-Up Kayak Sail

Have you ever had a strong wind to your back and wished you had a sail to help you along the way? The Rapid-Up Sail is a compact, portable, and easy to set up down-wind sail that rapidly deploys and qu

www.leisurepro.com

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Or there’s always a golf umbrella

we used to tie the tent rain fly to a couple oars and make a home made version.

 

[Ripitz]

we used to tie the tent rain fly to a couple oars and make a home made version.

Nice down home spinnaker. Visited my sister on a lake upcountry once on a windy day. Had to get to an island. Couldn’t find the paddles so we used a big snow shovel which also worked well as a sail. As they say, necessity is the mother of all invention.

 

[Brownski]

I squeezed in a quick paddle today at the local spot- Piermont Marsh and the Hudson. Low tide launch.

It was a beautiful day.

Low tide means lots of old shit appears, tires, shipwrecks, etc….

I’ve paddled here a ton so there aren’t any surprise. I just paddled out into the middle. I went most of the way across to Westchester but stopped before I got into the navigation channel and then came back.

it was a really outstanding day- no wind to speak of. Easy paddling conditions. At one point I looked over my shoulder and saw a Pike jump so that was cool.

That’s it. Easy peas. I was probably on the water about an hour and a half.

 

[XTski]

Was at Indian River inlet beach last week doing some stand up paddle surfing and I find the paddle out from the beach getting over incoming waves to be quite useful for some similar moves needed in skiing
it is amazing work for balance and also independent leg action, unweighting and absorption and retraction on uneven and unforseen terrain that’s right in front of you but it takes actual feeling the “ground “ underfoot to know when and how to react in split second, like skiing it just becomes natural after a while
you have to be on a hard board to paddle surf to get that feeling of being in the wave as opposed to inflatable sup that just floats on top , Harv, Brigatine island is one of the best places on the east coast for paddle surfing looking like we will be there in a week or 2; Magicseaweed.com is a good website to look for good clean surf (green), Fanatic makes an excellent sup surfboard I have an Allwave 9’8” and it catches waves no problem, I am a novice and wanted something to make the learning curve easy at my age ? pic is on a video I found that shows what I am talking (typing) about

 

[jasonwx]

Was at Indian River inlet beach last week doing some stand up paddle surfing and I find the paddle out from the beach getting over incoming waves to be quite useful for some similar moves needed in skiing
it is amazing work for balance and also independent leg action, unweighting and absorption and retraction on uneven and unforseen terrain that’s right in front of you but it takes actual feeling the “ground “ underfoot to know when and how to react in split second, like skiing it just becomes natural after a while
you have to be on a hard board to paddle surf to get that feeling of being in the wave as opposed to inflatable sup that just floats on top , Harv, Brigatine island is one of the best places on the east coast for paddle surfing looking like we will be there in a week or 2; Magicseaweed.com is a good website to look for good clean surf (green), Fanatic makes an excellent sup surfboard I have an Allwave 9’8” and it catches waves no problem, I am a novice and wanted something to make the learning curve easy at my age ? pic is on a video I found that shows what I am talking (typing) about
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I liken paddle boarding to standing on a closet door
But that looks like fun