What’s SUP you ask??

Holy Cow Canoe is pleased to offer this new and fun outdoor activity to Fairy Lake. Thinking of something different for date night, girls night out? or something for the kids. Try stand up paddle boarding. We have safe stable SUP boards specially designed for the first time users equipped with a longboard paddle. Fairy lake is a calm and quiet lake perfect to try out your new skills. We have available to you an instructor who can help you with your paddle sport needs.

From Wikipedia; Stand up paddle surfing and stand up paddle boarding (SUP), (Hoe he’e nalu in the Hawaiian language) are sports originating in Hawaii as an off-shoot of surfing. They enable surfers to paddle farther into the ocean than is typical or to paddle standing up as a sport unto itself. A 2013 report called it the outdoor sporting activity with the most first-time participants of any in the United States that year.^[1] Paddlers race on lakes, large rivers and canals, ride breaking waves, and glide over long distances along sea coasts, often using tail winds to aid the trip.

Stand up paddlers wear a variety of wet suits and other clothing, depending on both water and air temperature since most of their time is spent standing on the board.

A related, traditional sport, paddleboarding, is done kneeling on a board and paddling with the hands, similar to a butterfly swimming stroke. The term “paddleboarding” is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to stand up paddle surfing.

Historian and writer Steve West, notes that the contemporary notion of stand up paddle boarding, if attributed to the Waikiki Beach Boys of Oahu during the 1960s, considers that outrigger canoeing should in fact be recognised as the direct link between the idea of standing on a board and propelling it with a canoe paddle, seeing as these two primary skills (board riding and paddling) were merely being combined, by people who had traditionally grown up around both skills as part of their cultural right of passage.

Canoe Kayaks and SUP boards are available to rent at the Fairy Lake Outpost in Acton – Please visit our rental page for more information. 

Instructional help is available, drop in classes, as well as a class on Fridays at 1pm. Join us at the boathouse.

New Stand Up Paddle Boards are available

At Holy Cow Canoe we have incentives in place for you to start your lucrative canoe rental operations.  You can operate a canoe rental business from your own rented waterfront location. You can also run the business from home, advertising through print media to attract customers who can simply pick up the rentals from you, or you can deliver the rental equipment to the customer. Our rental program works well for new start-ups as we try to assist you to get things going during the most critical time. We offer a reduced minimum order of 8 canoes/ per order, net 60 day terms for the first 2 years, the option of providing our boats without any labels in order to allow you the ability to private label (if desired), along with free delivery.
We also offer a number of custom options that allow you to order the boats set up for your rental/retail purposes or specific customer preferences. (i.e custom colour, third seat, Kevlar skidplates, upgraded portage yoke, etc)

Send us an email if your interested in starting a canoe rental company in your area. With a request for quotation we can help you start your company today.