NEW: racing SUP by C4 Waterman

Prone paddleboards are a revered craft among the Hawaiian waterman community. None represents this discipline more than the 12’ stock paddleboard. In Hawaii, it is a rite of passage to paddle the Ka’iwi channel on a stock board. This very model has won more crossings than any other board in the history of the race.

Construction: C4 Waterman’s new FeatherCore Composite line of SUPs is based on the rigorous refinement of the foam sandwich/composite structures to find the construction that best suits the unique needs of the next generation of high- performance stand-up paddleboards.

Our testing has found that deck and bottom wood veneer laminates provide the lightest, strongest, least expensive ‘skin’ to complement our featherlight EPS-cored SUPs. These very thin veneer sheets are sandwiched between successive layers of fiberglass and epoxy resin and then pressure molded around the EPS core. This creates a sort of monocoque fuselage, much like an aircraft, in which the skin of the surfboard in effect becomes the stringer or stiffener.