The shortest day and longest night of the year occurs tomorrow…this year it also coincides with the first day of Hanukkah…the holiday season is well under way with Christmas on Sunday (no wonder we’ve been so busy…;-) and New Year’s Day not long after that…don’t know about you, but it seemed like Halloween was just yesterday…;-)
Time’s going so fast with so many cool things happening around here that I almost need to hire a “professional blogger” to keep up…;-)
Here’s a few FeatherLite carbon SUP’s that we had built for stock…9’6″ Stoke and 8’6″ Jammer…a couple of 10’3″ carbon Mahalos are going through production right now…
This one wasn’t in the shop 24 hours before it found a new home locally on the beach…
Tucks nicely inside the Mercedes SUV…
Clients from Newport Beach picked out his and hers SUP Sports boards from us today with our color coordinated paddles…
Pretty in pink…
Guys…Victoria’s secret is that girls LOVE pink…;-)
Lots of folks picking up new boards…this guy drove 700 miles to pick up two new boards…drove down to Malibu and then came back to pick up another…then drove home to the redwoods with the bounty…
A magazine photog picking a new Maui blue 10’3″ Mahalo…set up as a quad with my bamboo fins……
In between all of the exciting “goings on” around the shop and warehouse lately…we found a little bit of time to build board racks and throw some paint on the walls around our outside patio and shop expansion project…still a work in progress…but, we’re seeing the light at the end of the tunnel…we’ll prolly host a BBQ and patio warming event after our next demo…tentatively planned for the next “Indian Summer” weekend…
Mahalo to Martin, Frank, Deb, Guy, John, Janet ,Jason…and, others that helped us put this project to bed…we’re movin’ on…& movin’ up…
Hoping everyone has a happy, and safe, 4th of July weekend…
The shipping dock at our paddleboard warehouse has been pretty busy lately with new boards heading outbound to their adopted parents in Eureka, Encinitas, Lake Arrowhead, Lake Tahoe, SF Bay Area, Alaska, Illinois, Connecticut, North Carolina, Maine , and Florida…to name a few…plus, we’ve had a rush of folks from in, and out of the area, picking out boards in the showroom to enjoy the incredible July 4th weekend on tap with their friends and families…
Bakersfield, Arroyo Grande, Camarillo, Ventura, Los Angeles, Hermosa Beach…plus, our loyal and new clients in Santa Barbara, Montecito, Lompoc, Carpinteria, and Goleta…
Hot days and comfy water temps has really got Summer for our STOKED CUSTOMERS cranked up into SUP overdrive!!!
PBR at SUP Sports all 4th of July weekend…should be the perfect Summer accoutrement when you come in to shop after playing in 65* water with 82* air temps…
Taste::
Charlie Papazian, president of the Brewers Association, published the following tasting notes for Pabst Blue Ribbon in 2008: “A contrasting counterpoint of sharp texture and flowing sweetness is evident at the first sip of this historic brew. A slowly increasing hoppiness adds to the interplay of ingredients, while the texture smooths out by mid-bottle. The clear, pale-gold body is light and fizzy. Medium-bodied Blue Ribbon finishes with a dusting of malts and hops. A satisfying American classic and a Gold Medal winner at the 2006 Great American Beer Festival.”
Now that Summer is officially in full swing…boards are coming and going like the tide cycle…shipments flowing in…and, shipments flowing out from our paddleboard warehouse to all points of the country…everywhere there is H20…
Yesterday, we had 10 big, “happy boxes” traveling across country to their new owners…
Lots of folks dropping in from all over California to pick up their paddle direct from us and to shop our incredible selection…we invite you to come to our shop in beautiful Santa Barbara to experience real, old fashioned, CUSTOMER SERVICE…
Annie, the shop SUPervisor, has been watching lots of boards come and go lately…
A Malibu client is taking this Starboard carbon 8’10″ Wide Point to Fiji…
Paul just got back from Fiji and is taking this Starboard Silver 8’5″ Pocket Rocket home to Hermosa Beach…
A Starboard carbon 9’8″ Pro gets added to this Central Coast client’s quiver…
Here’s a new Starboard carbon 10’5″ Wide Point for a local Santa Barbara client…we’ve heard from a client who rode one up in Maine this week in the snow and is stoked!
We have another couple of shipments of boards on the way…but, they go as fast as they arrive…so if there is something you have your eye on getting with that tax return, get your request into us ASAP…
We have the lowest re-gifting ratio of any SUP company in the universe…
As you can well imagine…things have been in high gear around our adult toy store this holiday season…;-)
Lots of boards going to Florida and other sunbelt states…lots of folks driving in from out of state…and, from counties all over California to pick up that perfect gift…
Some really lucky folks are going to be waking up on Christmas morn’ with a nifty new SUP and/or SUP gift certificate under the tree…here’s a couple of boards and paddles that are going to make their new recipients happy happy merry merry, for sure…
Lots of bright and colorful QuickBlade paddles have been leaving the shop this week…
The 11’6″ Coreban Cruiser and 11’2″ Starboard Blend have been popular this holiday season…
Another new SUP pad color option to spice things up…
The SUP elves working away getting yet another board ready for the sleigh ride home…;-)…
The perfect thrifty stocking stuffer…the $11.95 Surf Brush…it gently knocks the sand off of your board, dog, and feet…etc…without bending over…Made in the USA with recycled material at a mom and pop brush shop…
Our GIFT CERTIFICATES have really been hot this season…let that special someone decide for themselves what they want and/or need…no regifting here…
Great for last minute shopping procrastinators…;-)
We will be closed Saturday, Christmas Day…however, we have had a few requests to be open by appointment only on Sunday to accommodate our traveling clients…call or email the shop and we will schedule you…normal shop hours resume on Monday…daily 10-5 PDT…
There is still time for our East Coast clients to get their SUP board orders in and have them arrive before Christmas…but, the clock is ticking…
We had new boards arrive this week to stoked clients in Maine, New York, North Carolina, and Florida…also, a couple to the Big Island…all with travel times of 3-4 days…
What would you rather find under the tree on Christmas morning…a HDTV or a SUP (or two?)…;-)
Heck, with air temps in the high 70′s this weekend…it’s not too late to drive out to the coast from nearby states to get your stoke on…;-)
A couple of new clients from San Luis Obispo took a drive down the coast to shop the incredible selection found at our shop…they simply can’t find our selection, or quality, at home…
It’s all about the STOKE!!! Free aloha with every purchase…
Dozens of boards and paddles flying out of the door these last few daze…in addition to folks driving from near and far to pick up new standup paddleboards at our paddleboard warehouse and showroom here in beautiful Santa Barbara, we’re also doing SUP deliveries down at the harbor for folks just pulling in to provision their boats for further SUP adventures out at the Channel Islands, and onward to mainland Mexico and beyond…
This Starboard Avanti is heading to Seattle…
Gorgeous Hobie race SUP and Chuck Patterson designed race fin…
The Handirack inflatable board rack to the rescue again…this time on an Audi…
The shop owners around us on Santa Barbara Street have been pretty amazed by the volume of standup paddle boards being moved into our shop and warehouses…and, even more impressed by the number of boards leaving our bizziness location…especially, in a drab economy…
The deal is however, this sport is more like the surest investment you’ll ever make…guaranteed to bring ROI…returns on your investment…health…mental well-being…natural recreation…not to mention just plain unadulterated F U N…
Here’s a few snapshots of activity this week…Kim is S T O K E D !!!…her parents bought her an el cheapo at CostMart…she broke the paddle the first day…then came to see us…good move…;-)
Mother and daughter standups…how cute is that?
Bob’s gorgeous new Starboard TAC…this is the 6th SUP that he’s drove up from Malibu to purchase from us…
Kent invested in a high quality QuickBlade carbon paddle…while he saved bucks on an NSP family board…he’ll be back for a high performance wave riding SUP…
Chuck wanted the biggest SUP that he could fit in his Yukon…howzabout a 12′ x 32″ Starboard Big Easy…easy peasy piece ‘o cake…;-)
Of course we’ve been busy shipping boards and paddles all over the country…this one is headed to Ashley in Florida
