A Big Father's Day Weekend for Paddle Sports - My Report

This past Father's Day weekend was huge for paddle sports.  There were kayak demos/festivals in Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Nevada City, and Arnold.  I worked two events on for Hobie -- Lake Tahoe on Saturday and Nevada City on Sunday.



The Tahoe City Paddlefest was eye opener for me.  I didn't realize how big Stand Up Paddleboarding has grown in the past year.  The event started out with a big SUP race.



The SUP race was sponsored by new company called TahoeSUP.  I got to know two of the guys with the company -- Nate and Ernie.  These guys saw my Hobie Livewell and went nuts.  Nate borrowed and mounted it to his board and couldn't stop talking about it.  It was a perfect fit, minus the scupper holes needed to run the bait tank.  I almost didn't get my livewell back.  He even offered to buy it from me.  It looks like TahoeSUP will be build their own custom SUP fishing pods in the near future.





Here are three of the models that I got to demo.



All were awesome, but my favorite was their "Cadillac"model -- The Woody.

Awesome, do you know where they had the demo in Arnold?

Jeff

You could have trade the live well for the Woody    Thanks for the report and pictures.

so exciting to see the SUPboards will cross polinate with fishing as the kayak has.
Im with you Chuck. The wood is where its at
thanks for what you do and posting it

Very Cool Chuck,  Was at Linda Mar Monday, waves were big and lots of sups out also.  I watched the race in Nevada City sunday on the Internet, Armstrong keeps getting stronger, had a feeling he was going to win, look out TDF.  2nd place winner is a great rider also, seen him win the downyville classic about 7 years ago.

John

2 weeks ago when I was fishing Capitola an armada paddled by me. Looks like the were going from the cement ship to the mile bouy. There had to be close to 100 ppl.

You could have trade the live well for the Woody    Thanks for the report and pictures.

Sonny... I wish, but it would probably take 10 Livewells to make that trade.  The Woody runs about $2500.

Awesome, do you know where they had the demo in Arnold?

Sierra Nevada Adventure Company's Kayak & Canoe Festival

so exciting to see the SUPboards will cross polinate with fishing as the kayak has.

Yup... I can see it popular with flyfishermen for sure.

Very Cool Chuck,  Was at Linda Mar Monday, waves were big and lots of sups out also.  I watched the race in Nevada City sunday on the Internet, Armstrong keeps getting stronger, had a feeling he was going to win, look out TDF.  2nd place winner is a great rider also, seen him win the downyville classic about 7 years ago.

John

Hey JD.  You've been riding much?  A lot of guys rushed from the kayak festival to see Armstrong in town.  I missed it.  Downieville's downhill run is a must do for anyone into mountain biking.

You could have trade the live well for the Woody    Thanks for the report and pictures.

Sonny... I wish, but it would probably take 10 Livewells to make that trade.  The Woody runs about $2500.

Wow, that SUP costs more than my Hobie Sport.  No way I'm going to give up my Hobie for that