Stand up - Paddle boarding

[Moakesy]

I read somewhere that the male brain needs around 30 hours on the board and longer if you are on the heavy side,

As most of the hour I had was spent off the board, trying to get back on, it will take me some time to get to a whole 30 hours on the board!!

Persevere with it, and practice on canals if you can. Apart from bring good beginner spots with no waves, they usually have pubs!

I did actually quite enjoy the experience, or at least the thought of it, so will give it another go. The promise of pubs is all the motivation I need!!

 

[calimera]

This thread has inspired us to have a go at SUP.

Intro session booked this Thursday at Southwest SUP Royal William Yard.

 

[CannonDale]

This thread has inspired us to have a go at SUP.

Intro session booked this Thursday at Southwest SUP Royal William Yard.

SUP skills lake Como

 

[CannonDale]

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[Cal’ish]

This seems to be a suitable thread for asking how much a 12v pump will drain the leisure battery. Has anyone given it a go? Pumps drop in price while I get lazier over time.. pondering a purchase.

 

[Steve1]

This seems to be a suitable thread for asking how much a 12v pump will drain the leisure battery. Has anyone given it a go? Pumps drop in price while I get lazier over time.. pondering a purchase.

I used to use one of those jump packs to charge my one it was supposed to be a 14AH battery inside (if you believe the specs). It would allow me to pump up 2 large paddle boards before is ran out, there was a little left still. So at a guess 6AH used per board. The California has 2 x 75ah batteries (for our T5 SE anyway) so I guess each board maybe 4% of the leisure batteries total.
BUT we stopped using it because it's really noisy and quite slow maybe 15mins per board, so noisy for a long time. I can pump one up in less than 10 mins with much less noise, but it does make me sweat after the second one !

 

[dspuk]

I used to use one of those jump packs to charge my one it was supposed to be a 14AH battery inside (if you believe the specs). It would allow me to pump up 2 large paddle boards before is ran out, there was a little left still. So at a guess 6AH used per board. The California has 2 x 75ah batteries (for our T5 SE anyway) so I guess each board maybe 4% of the leisure batteries total.
BUT we stopped using it because it's really noisy and quite slow maybe 15mins per board, so noisy for a long time. I can pump one up in less than 10 mins with much less noise, but it does make me sweat after the second one !

Agree with Steve - we have an electric pump that came "free" with our Bluefins - it's slow and noisy and we can use the three chamber pump to do the work in 1/2 the time. TBH I cant imaging it's a huge drain on the batteries and even so would be charged back up quick enough on the journey back from the beach.

 

[Ch1pbutty]

Get a double (or triple) chamber manual pump. Its part of the warm up!

We use the below:

Titan 1 SUP Pump

The Original Titan Pump. The world’s first purpose built, double chamber SUP pump - designed to cut the amount of time and effort it takes to inflate you board by half. It comes with almost every board in the Red Paddle Co Range and, despite looking the same has been constantly re-designed since...

red-equipment.co.uk