Catching Up

Ke Nalu has been on a bit of a hiatus. Just too many things going on, and fortunately some of them were fun. Some medical crap, a lot of work getting moved to Hood River (my shop is still 90 percent in Portland) but also a lot of downwinders in the gorge, lots of SUP races, and riding my new trike. I’ll do an article on my new surfboard transport trike a little later. For now I have a lot of catching up to do. We have raw story material submitted from the Battle of the Paddle Hawaii, Maui to Molokai races, the Ross Island SUP races, a race in Venice, as well as some board reviews and SUP accessory articles.

Looking forward, there’s the Battle of the Paddle in Dana Point, the Cape Cod Bay Challenge, a host of late summer and early fall races. And then back to Maui. Mainstream media is covering SUP more and more, especially the inland aspects. The big SUP companies are focusing effort on the heartland, because growth is rapid there and seems almost unlimited–we’ll cover that aspect. The steady growth of Ke Nalu readers even while content production has been slow is strong testament to growing interest. The Ke Nalu archives are full of information newbies find useful and people are mining deep into the back issues. It’s also an important time to pay attention to regulation, and the unintended consequences of the Coast Guard’s ruling that SUP’s are a vessel. We’ll do some article on that.

Bottom line, while this one-man band may wander off and do other things occasionally, Ke Nalu is alive and well. I hope you’re having a great summer and you’re getting on the water and enjoying this great sport.