Bringing the best stand-up paddleboards from Maui to you!

Born to surf!

East Coast Paddle surfing is the brainchild of two water sports enthusiast cousins, John Denney and Kane Baker.

Born and raised on New York's Long Island, John and Kane found the joys of the sea early in life. Kane was the first to discover surfing on Long Island's sandy beaches, and soon shared his love of the sport with his favorite cousin, John.

John went on to reciprocate the favor by turning Kane on to the joys of remote control airplanes, kite surfing, and eventually, standup paddle boarding.

Once bitten by the surf bug, the Long Island waves didn't provide the challenge that the boys were looking for. They spent the next years taking many surf trips around the world, to such excellent surf locales as Indonesia, South Africa, Tahiti and Costa Rica.

The call of the surfing life took John to Maui and Kane to Florida, where they each pursued surfing and any other water sports that offered.

The cousins, although separated by thousands of miles, kept in close touch and shared their water adventures with each other. John, totally immersed in the Maui surfing life, learned to tow in into huge waves at Maui's Jaws, to windsurf, to kite surf , and then discovered standup paddle boarding.

Situated as he was in the midst of Maui's active surfing community, John befriended some of the world's greatest watermen and shapers, such as Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama and was exposed to the latest in gear and boards.

As always, John shared his new enthusiasms with Kane, and sent him all the latest standup paddle boards from Maui. Kane took to standup paddle surfing like a duck to water, and soon all his friends were paddle surfing too.

John and Kane had always wanted to build a business together, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity - John knew all the best shapers in the world, and Kane was perfectly located to bring these great boards to the East Coast, where paddle boarding was just getting a start.

The rest is history: East Coast Paddlesurfing was born, dedicated to being the East Coast standup paddle surfing center and providing the best cutting edge boards and paddles from Maui to Florida and the East Coast!

Paddle Surfing from Maui

The red-hot sport of stand-up paddleboarding re-originated on Maui, home of many of the world's finest surfers, watermen and shapers. Ancient Hawaiians no doubt stood up and paddled in their canoes and on their long surfboards, and now the new wave of Hawaiian water warriors has taken up the sport and pushed it on to new and exciting places.

Maui's combination of great surf and wind, excellent beaches, and comfortable climate has proven irresistible to many talented water sports professionals, who make their home there and constantly push the limit of water sporting fun and design.

Stand-up paddleboarding is quickly becoming the favorite water activity of many of Maui's water loving folk, from world-class athletes such as Laird Hamilton and Dave Kalama, to young kids, teenagers, and active grandmas. The result? Maui's world-class shapers have been shaping refined, sophisticated stand-up paddleboards that make stand-up paddling fun and easy for everyone!

From the lake, to the river, to the beach, stand-up paddling is a blast!

Whether you like to cruise the lake, drift down the river, troll the reefs, travel between islands or hit the surf, stand-up paddling is the best way to walk on water! Florida's beautiful outdoors are yours for the paddling - waterways, rivers, lakes and the ocean all become your own personal playground! Stand-up paddling - lots of fun, great exercise

As well as being lots of fun, stand-up paddling is a very good aerobic and strength training exercise - depending on how vigorously you attack it, stand-up paddling can be anything from a comfortable cruise in the park to a heart-pounding, calorie-burning workout that will leave you nicely tired out and ready for a great dinner! Fishing, exploring, sailing . . . the sky's the limit!

A quality stand-up paddleboard is the best investment you can make in watery fun. The ways in which you can have fun with your stand-up paddleboard are infinite! You can use your stand-up paddleboard to fish, dive, explore, travel, ride waves, sail (some of our stand-up paddleboards have mast tracks so you can attach windsurfing sails), exercise, take a friend along . . . your imagination is the only limit.

Stand-up paddling - lots of fun, great exercise

As well as being lots of fun, stand-up paddling is a very good aerobic and strength training exercise - depending on how vigorously you attack it, stand-up paddling can be anything from a comfortable cruise in the park to a heart-pounding, calorie-burning workout that will leave you nicely tired out and ready for a great dinner!

Fishing, exploring, sailing . . . the sky's the limit!

With gas prices so high, a quality stand-up paddleboard is the best investment you can make in watery fun. The ways in which you can have fun with your stand-up paddleboard are infinite! You can use your stand-up paddleboard to fish, dive, explore, travel, ride waves, sail (some of our stand-up paddleboards have mast tracks so you can attach windsurfing sails), exercise, take a friend along . . . your imagination is the only limit.

Check out the stand-up paddling photos and videos

Check out our photo gallery, and see how many different ways there are to enjoy stand-up paddling!

We also have some very cool video clips online!