The Chris Craft Edition by Tower iSup is an elegant, high-end inflatable paddle board designed by Chris Craft in collaboration with Tower Paddle Boards. This 3 m long premium SUP inflatable is covered with an imitation teak wood to remind Chris Craft boats. Because it is inflatable, it can also be easily transported, as well in the cabin of your boat, as in an airplane... Rolled up, it measures only 30 cm in diameter, the size of a rolled sleeping bag.
"Almost all SUP inflatables with a thickness of 10 cm - which is almost the entire inflatable paddle on the market - leave much to be desired. They collapse in the middle and we end up paddling with our feet covered by the water that gets on the board. It's miserable. The board released plus the ripple on the water due to poor stability slows you down. The SUP Chris Craft Edition by Tower Inflatable, with its thickness of 15 cm is much stiffer, floats better and therefore does not wet the feet" explains the American shipyard.
Inflatable but very rigid
Tower's Chris Craft Edition inflatable paddle is made from extremely rugged materials such as those found on Zodiacs or rafting boats. Thousands of vertical filaments of identical lengths connect the two sides of the paddle. Once inflated, they form a structure as rigid as a piece of plywood.
"If you position both ends of the board on a chair and install a person of 90 on it, you will hardly see the board flex. If you do the same thing on a 10 cm thick board, it will end up touching the floor." chris Craft explains.
The Chris Craft paddle comes with a 3-piece Kevlar carbon paddle, a removable center fin, a high-pressure hand pump and a teak deck cover with the Chris Craft brand.
Price: $1785 (currently, promotion at $995)
Chris-Craft is one of America's most renowned and longstanding boat builders in the United States and around the world and designs high-end boats with thorough attention to detail. Tower Paddle is known as one of the best manufacturers of inflatable paddles.
