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Jay (Aquamoose) Butki ( "Paddler of the Week" : paddleboard.com) nearly gets picked off powering through the surf on Joe Bark's personal brand new
(never ridden) carbon 18'6" SUP, to get to the start line at the Oceanside Becky Stuart Memorial race earlier this month...

He arrived late and couldn't find a parking spot...the surf was firing...everyone else paddled to the start line out of the harbor mouth...
Jay had to make up a little time...ya got's to do what ya got's to do...

This is what Jay had to say...

"I wasn't about to be picked off-I timed the righthander and the lefthander coming at
me so I could squeak through.


I was pretty sure Joe's glass jobs could handle the air drop on the back side..."

Here's a gallery of shots from the sequence where big Jay (Aquamoose) Butki hung on the precipice of destruction...
he sure makes that 18'6" BARK L@@K small...

Joe Bark's race boards definitely are not disposable...dunno if anyone else's would have survived the air drop out the backside...

Labels: Jay (Aquamoose) Butki, Joe Bark carbon SUP, Oceanside Becky Stuart Memorial race

Every single time we have visited Joe Bark and his crew at his factory we end up with more kewl hand built in the USA boards...best constructed SUP's
on the planet...here's my latest...all carbon 12'6" x 28"...













The demand for Joe Bark SUP's is off the scale as more and more people experience THE GLIDE...not to worry...we can take your custom order directly...but, if
you can't wait several months...his 20 person race team gets top priority...you may want to think about getting on our waiting list for the 14' Surftech "Expedition"...

The list is growing daily...

Labels: Joe Bark carbon SUP, Joe Bark SUP, Santa Barbara standup paddle sports