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Announcing a NEW, exciting, inspirational, and all-round fully STOKED presence in the SE watersports scene: Whitecap
Stand Up Paddleboarding
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Whitecap SUP is a new LLC owned and operated by Chuck Hardin Of Evans, GA (near Augusta, GA), Danny Johnson of Trenton, GA (near Chattanooga, TN) with assistance from The Waterman of St Simons Island, GA, John Laing. We're spread in a strategic arc across the classic SE to the coastal low country. We'll be here, there and everywhere doing it all in SUP, and; no, this is not the beginning of the end of Whitecap Windsurfing -- in fact, quite the opposite -- because after all, we now live in the age of The Grand Unified Theory of Everything
Yes, the Holy Grail of Solutions, the Answer, the Truth that has long been sought after by scientists, philosophers, alchemists, and true,
pure-of-heart watersports enthusiasts the world over is no longer
theory, it's reality! Let Whitecap SUP be your guide to the truth, the truth that will set you free:
Any water! -- Any weather! -- Any time! -- Any where! -- ANY BODY!
 (A SUP can put a slice of surfing culture in your life! It's a memorable day at the Whitecap OBX Trip - 10/7/09)
 - Flatwater exploring and cruising
- Racing and downwind distance,
- Surfing waves, wakes, and whitewater
- Wavesailing in light wind
Whitecap Events -- 2010
- March 4th -- 7th: Lite-wind Wavesailing 101, Merrit Island/Cocoa Beach area, Florida
- April 16 - 17th: SE Inland SUP Championships, Stone Mountain, GA (location pending approval)
- May 8 -9th: Woman's SUP Experience, St Simons Island, GA
- May, TBA: OBX Beginner's Windsurf/SUP Trip, Outer Banks, NC
- June 26th: St Simons Surf Sailors WINDFEST, 4th annual, SSI, GA
- July, exact weekend tba: SUP BOOTCAMP, St SImons, GA
- August 5-8th: SUP Safari, a multi-venue trek inland thru s. GA and FL panhandle, east to the coast.
- Sept, exact weekend tba: Long Distance SUP Ocean Xperience, Golden Isles area, GA
- Oct 9 - 16th: Whitecap's OBX Customer's Trip, Outer Banks, NC (only 4 of 14 spaces left!)
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(Morning SUP session on beautiful, serene 2-mile stretch of Saluda River, near Columbia, SC, before the ACWA Windfest, May '09)
The flatwater paddle
mode of SUP can be learned in 5 minutes. For inland venues -- lake,
river, canal, you name it -- it's like walking on water. Nothing to it,
yet amazingly rewarding! It is great, fun cross-training -- if you want
it to be. It's an easy escape -- if you want it to be. And windsurfers
know the Wind Goddess is a fickle lover, playing your heartstrings one
day, abandoning you to despair the next. What the Goddess needs is a
good paddling...she'll come crawling back for love and attention before
you know it!  (Wally enjoys an afternoon "de-stression" as much as I do. On the upper Savannah River on GA/SC border near Augusta.)
 (Johnny Laing teaching SUP fundamentals at East Beach, St Simons IS, GA.) |
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Learn to surf in one session!
 (A routine wave begins easy, shapes up nicely, on it's long course to the sandbar at Gould's Inlet, St Simons.
Rider, David Hamby -- 11/1/09)
Really. No pain, all gain. Whitecap is established with
demo/rental boards and excellent instruction resources in St Simons
Island at the most beautiful, most beginner-friendly spot on the
Southern east coast, Goulds Inlet between St. Simons and Sea Island, GA.
Easy, sweet, small waves in shallow water most every day. Best place
this side of Hawaii for your first wave! Newbies absolutely love the
spot. Experienced lay-down surfers who are getting into SUP also get
stoked on the minute long rides allowing them to work on nose-riding and
board walking maneuvers. 
David Hamby and Sandy Van Camp check out new Naish surf-specific paddles prior to a sesh at Goulds Inlet on St Simons,
11/1/09
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