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The folks from Naish International have released a clear rail tape for your paddle board. Rail tape keeps your board looking good and the clear tape doesn’t detract from the look of your board.
Leading Paddlesports Company Enters Joint Venture To Build New FeatherCore Composite™ Line
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Honolulu, Hawaii September 29, 2011
C4 Waterman, Inc. is excited to announce that it has completed negotiations to have all its SUP models manufactured at a new factory in Asia. Three weeks after canceling its exclusive licensing agreement with Boardworks Surf, C4 has entered into a joint venture with the factory, an innovative, molded-composite builder that will be the exclusive manufacturer of the company’s 12 radical new SUP models as well as its substantial legacy line.
C4 Waterman CEO Todd Bradley and shaper/designer Dave Parmenter have collaborated with the technicians at the new factory to develop C4′s new FeatherCore Composite™ fabrication technique, an advanced form of composite sandwich construction based on the engineering principles related to the unique core-to-skin ratio of stand-up paddleboards. The FeatherCore Composite™ process achieves lighter, friskier SUPs, possesses enhanced molecular and mechanical bonds of all the laminants/facings to the lightweight core, and delivers it all inexpensively and with ‘greener’ materials than the norm.
Honolulu, Hawaii, September 8, 2011
After announcing that they are parting ways with Boardworks, C4 Waterman, Inc. announces the re-launch of its C4 Waterman brand of boards and paddles with a streamlined list of refined models and color ways, which it will manufacture and distribute directly along with its recently released SUBNINE performance series.
“Due to the ever increasing demand for boards that perform well in a variety of conditions, we’ve revisited our legacy models and refined their designs,” said C4 Waterman founder/CEO Todd Bradley. “As always, stability, quality, performance and fun remain the cornerstones of any product we make.”
As the company that founded the sport of modern stand-up paddle surfing and distance racing with its innovative board and paddle designs, C4 is determined to 
push design and performance to the limit. To complement its extensive line of C4-branded epoxy SUP boards, the Honolulu-based company recently announced it was launching a skunkworks-based product line, SUBNINE (www.SUB9surf.com), helmed by C4 designer/shaper Dave Parmenter. This brand new collection of state-of-the-art high-performance SUP boards and paddles is capped off by a fleet of radical new Rigid AirCore inflatable models replete with a game-changing patent-pending removable-fin system. This system accommodates stiff, high-performance FCS surf fins to be used on any of the new air-cored C4/SUBNINE SUPs and conventional surfboards. Read More→
The folks at C4 Waterman have built the world’s first SUP app for Iphone. The game is called Surf N Sup Challenge and it is a paddle surfing simulator. The game allows you to use a photo of your face on the game character and surf realistic photo style waves.
The game is built to utilize the acelerometer in the Iphone to control the surfer. The game consists of three different games, river runner, short board ripper and down wind stand up.
Surf N SUP is available now in the Apple App Store for .99.
Here’s some screenshots fom the game:
Victoria’s Secret Supernodel Marissa Miller has a new line of paddle boards for women she has designed for Surftech, The Marissa Miller model. She was recently on the Conan O’Brien shoe to promote them.
Here’s a video of her appearance:
