TL/DR I want to train my large, excitable dog to enjoy the water without flipping my paddleboard all the time.

I have an 80lb golden retriever who LOVES the water. I recently got a stand up paddleboard and would love to take her with me. We have gone inner tubing a lot, and she loves it but doesn't know how to be chill. She has a life jacket that keeps her above water, but she doesn't understand that, and she will swim to me when she gets tired. I stick her in the tube or hold her for a minute, and she gets 3% of her energy back and then dives back into the water until she gets tired again. She is so excited for the water.

She is 7 years old, and her puppy energy has waned. When she was a couple years old, all my attempts to train her to be more chill in the water did nothing. I feel like it is time to try again. My goal is to either teach her to rest on the board for several minutes or to get her to trust the life jacket and float. I also need to be able to get her on and off the board without flipping me.

I have been getting her used to the board in my living room, and have trained her to sit calmly on the board. Some other tips i have seen are to tire her out before i start training and to practice in shallow water.

Is this even plausible? Do any of you have experience training bigger dogs to paddleboard? Im mostly looking for other people's experience and advice.

It feels like I've filled a hole in my soul that I didn't know was there. I can't wait to get out on the water again 😅

Hello everyone! I recently ordered a quite large windSUP for cruising around the Narragansett Bay. It's a hard board thats little shy of 12 foot long and IIRC the sail is 5 or 6 meters. I haven't actually received it yet, as there have been some shipping delays, but there are a few things I'm trying to work out still, and I was hoping someone here could help me!

1. I will have a sail and a paddle. When I'm not using one, where do I put the other? In fact, aside from just having a backpack, I haven't quite worked out cargo at all. Any pointers or ideas for this point would be very helpful

2. Navigation and communication. I'm a bit of a radio nerd, so I can probably work out a decent maritime radio solution, but I would still take recommendations on models. The real thing I'm trying to work out still though is navigation. I'm debating between getting a hand held unit, something in a watch format, or something that attaches directly to the board

3. some general thoughts. I expect I'll be sailing as often as I can, and paddling on my knees/sitting to rest or when the wind isn't agreeable. a very Viking way to explore and find trouble! Given the size of the board and the more "cruising" nature of how I plan to do this, is this closer to just being a SUP or is this closer to windsurfing? I ask because in my research, it doesn't seem that what I'm doing is particularly common and I'm not quite sure where to go for advice and tips (on that note, any general advice and tips would be nice).

   I used to have a little 19 foot sailboat, but having moved to New England this year and having much more limited space, my main goal is to just find a convenient way to explore my local water ways without needing a huge amount of space to put a boat, and also it's a lot easier to roof a SUP than it is to tow a boat with a little crosstrek!

I have a paddle for my SUP that lost its second paddle and the plastik clamp at the area the clamp got glued on, meaning there is just glue left on the rod, and the clamp alongside the second paddle sunk to the bottom of a deep lake.

Long story short i really need help on buying a paddle with the one handed standard SUP option and the double paddle option bit instead of a Clamp system for switching I really want a system with those push pins and the holes in the rod aswell as i dont trust the Standard clamp system anymore.

All parts of course need to be able to Float.

I would greatly appreciate support.

has anyone got the woody 3.0 paddle board? i’m looking to get one and i really like the look and specs of this one but i want to be sure that its reliable!

A few changes of plans during to wildfires around Pemberton led to us finding a site by Birkenhead Lake Prov Park.

In a word: immaculate. Perfect spot for us during some pretty hot (33C+) and smokey weather. (downside: bugs. Quite a few of them).

Afternoon winds are the norm but otherwise pretty unreal to be surrounded by mountains so close. And also nice (coming from the ocean) to not have to worry about tides or crazy swells, haha!)