SUP Mag UK July 2018 issue 17 | Page 55

facilities or families with children to take some of the worry away from protecting their pride and joy. We already have the ‘Enduro Thermo Composite’ SUP and our popular Foamie SUPs, but we are now having a crack at producing a bamboo veneer, epoxy looking board that will be extremely strong without too much extra weight. This is due to a high number of our customers loving our wood designs, but ultimately requiring extra strength that classic fibreglass construction can’t always deliver. We now have a couple of distributors overseas; Spain and Dubai. This is obviously fantastic for FatStick as it increases out brand footprint and brings affordable kit not just to UK paddlers, but to others further afield. Loads of people from all walks of life are getting into paddling and that’s great news! The consequence of this is a huge focus within the industry on boards that can “do it all”. This is because people often do not have the funds to buy lots of differing boards for each condition Mother Nature may throw at them. 55 s t a n d u p p a d d l e m a g u k