"I'm a good swimmer, I'll be fine." The boat is five feet away, then ten, then fifteen. The hull is above the water, catching air, rolling with the waves. You are floating in the water, catching nothing. The distance continues to increase. You can't reach it. Even without your PFD [...]
Downwind runs push a paddler several miles offshore. Training sessions run the same distances in the other direction. Racing happens in conditions that include the real possibility of multiple capsizes, and the conditions that flip a surfski tend to be the same conditions that make swimming uncomfortable. In that context, [...]
Nelo 540 Surf Ski Since paddling surf skis since 2003, I estimated I have owned at least 100 surf skis(Huki, Fenn, Think, Epic, Stellar, Vajda, Nelo) excluding "stock" skis for sale during my Stellar or Think days. So I have spent a lot of time getting them ready [...]
History of Bailers When I first started paddling surf skis they all had venturis. Some skis had one, some had two, some were well placed for effortless draining, some had poor placement resulting in poor draining at lower speeds. However, by in large, most skis drained adequately without giving it [...]
David Morton of New Zealand forwarded his carbon accessory surf ski box complete with a hatch and a GPS attachment. I have shown only a few pictures however, click on the link and see David's production process. This is a thing of beauty. The newer Stellars: SEI, and particulary the [...]
