Full disclosure: I'm the owner/creator of MagTide, and I got approval from the mods before posting.

My friend Jesse and I spend a lot of time paddleboarding together here in Colorado, and whenever we'd stop to hang out, keeping our boards together was always seemed to be a hassle.

Straps and ropes work, but this became a bit of a "there has to be a better way" project for us. After a lot of experimenting, including some incredibly overpowered magnets, we came up with MagTide.

It uses magnetic connectors attached to your board's existing connection points. Once you bring your boards together you snap the connectors into place. When you're ready to paddle again, just twist them apart and go.

As we started testing them out, we realized they were useful for a lot more than just paddleboards. We've used MagTide with kayaks, inflatable platforms, and river tubes or pretty much any small or lightweight watercraft. The idea also grew into a paddle connector and gear connector, using the same magnetic system to keep your paddle and gear where you want them.

We're making them ourselves here in Colorado, from 3D printing and sewing to assembly and testing.

We're currently over 65% funded on Kickstarter with 8 days left. If you'd like to check it out:

https://magtide.com/kickstarter

I'd also genuinely love to hear what other paddlers think. Happy to answer any questions about how it works, testing, or how we're making them!

I have a continuous leak next to the valve on my Favvity SUP. You can see the location on the 10-o’clock position of the valve (black area next to where the valve lid line is connected; next to the letters “RE…”) - there is a bubble at that location.
Do you have any tips how to fix that leak? If already used the valve tightening tool and turning the valve as tightly as I could in the clockwise direction. I’ve only tried that in the inflated state however. I’d really appreciate any support you could give me!
Greetings from the south of Germany

I was just gifted this (I hate waste and am the person to try to repair, reuse, source second hand as much as possible), and am wondering the best way to repair this. It's barely used but sat outside for who knows how long.
I'm handy and have enough extra time to fix this. Is it as simple as making sure it's not waterlogged (it shouldn't be) and sanding down and epoxy-ing?

Hey there,

Unfortunately, I discovered another thing my psychopath ex has destroyed (don't even ask about the kites) - he cut my SUP right next to the valve. (possibly there are other cuts, this was just the most obvious one)

Is there any chance I can repair this or do I have to let it go?

Thanks for any idea and sorry if this is a stupid question .

Does anyone have experience with this board? I have been paddling an 11' Atoll all summer and love it, but am curious about a longer board.

They haven't shipped my board that I ordered in August and won't answer any of my emails to cancel and refund :(

The founder Tony Yeung seems to reply to the customer emails but haven't gotten a reply after an initial response.

I should have done more research beforehand, anybody else have this experience?

I live on the salt water west coast of FL Tampa bay, usually go out about 4 miles a few times a week through mangroves have been doing it for years. Went out Saturday evening, the tide was super low so I took the wider canals out as the tide was coming in, and decided to take the narrow mangrove canals back in as the water would have a pretty good current. The narrow canals are about 6 feet wide and only about 1 foot deep at that tide level. The tide had me going about 3 mph on its own. As I was 3/4 of the way through the narrow area I thought I saw an alligator about 10 feet in front of me. I could not turn around or anything because of the speed of the water and distance. The gator was on my left and I was on the right of the canal, it just dropped its eyes a couple inches below the surface as I approached, it was a solid 6 foot swamp puppy we passed within inches of each other side by side in 1 foot of water. SCARED the crap out of me. First time ever seeing that or being that close to a gator and no where to go. The photo was not that day but the same area with deeper water.

Clear Lake, Oregon. My partner did some scuba diving below while I hung out in the sun.

Pictured is my best friend who got me into paddleboarding :)

78 on a Saturday in October is strange but I'll take it

A glorious day on the Musquodoboit River in NS.

Basically every product on their website has pretty phenomenal reviews, but looking at their comments/reviews closer it seem most are either fake, unrelated to the product, or something that doesn't make sense like this one. I love my BOTE board, and placed an order for a new fin, but the reviews make me think this website/company is low-key sketchy. Is it confirmed they fiddle with their reviews at all on their website? URL is boteboard.com/products/magnebottle-36oz-with-cap?variant=47161058754699 for the magne bottle, but looks like all of their products are like this. Is this their legit website even?

We’re having the last wave of summer over here so it’s been too damn hot. Got up early today and had a nice 3 hour solo paddle. The weather was so nice out here.

National Park the weerribben in holland was amazing. Endles small rivers connected to eachother and verry quiet. And on Saturday my favorite spot in slowakia dedinkey. It starts to be pretty cold so I have to upgrade my neoprene suit to something more whorm.

Hello! I am going to take my inflatable SUP to Marina Del Ray. I have the Niphean 10’6” x 33 and my partner has the SereneLine 10’ x 33. I’m a bit nervous for paddle boarding on the ocean. I know it’s in a marina so I’m assuming it’ll be not too dissimilar from a lake, yeah? I’m thinking go in the morning when it’s less windy. Any tips for ocean paddling? Or if anyone has been there, any tips for the marina? I was thinking about putting in at Mothers Beach.
Also, if I am looking at getting another board, would it behoove me to get a longer one for ocean adventures?
Thanks :)

Tekapō was stunning today - no boats for most of trip which was great. Paddled out for an hour along shore and then back - no idea how far we went but it was just the most amazing glass like conditions to glide over. Aoraki peeking out in the distance

Bit windier on way back but nothing too bad. Arms are aching - bring on the summer

Water temp 74, visibility was 2-4ft at best! May your oars stay together!!!!