The Paddleboard Cup HolderBy Steadi Labs

—A base for a flat deck

Every strap on this board already has a job.

The nose bungee has the paddle, or the PFD, or the dry bag. The D-rings have the anchor line. The leash plug has the leash. The deck pad has you. Four pieces of hardware, and all four are spoken for before you launch.

Every drink holder sold for a board asks you for one of those four. This one asks for none of them. It stands on the flat, and it lifts off the second the deck needs to be a deck again.

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Scott Rodriguez, who makes them.

Steadi Labs LLC — Scott Rodriguez, founder. Veteran founded.

3419 E Chapman Ave #411, Orange, California · hello@steadilabs.com

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“First time I have ever ordered from Facebook feed. Very easy. Happy with product.”Steve Butler · 8 August 2026

A white Steadi holding an orange energy drink can on the textured deck pad of a paddleboard, a desert river and red rock ridgeline behind it.
On the deck pad, on the water. Every photograph on this page is one we actually took.

—Read this before anything else

Four pieces of hardware. All four already booked.

A paddleboard is the emptiest vehicle anybody owns. One flat plane, and four small things bolted to it. Here is what the paddling press tells you to do with each one, looked up on 2 September 2026 and quoted as published.

The nose bungee

Booked

paddle, PFD, dry bag

OutdoorMaster’s SUP guide tells you to “put your paddle down on the board perpendicular, and secure it with the bungee strap.” A studio’s own class page says the waist-belt PFD is “removed and placed under your deck net.” Keys go in there too.

The D-rings

Booked

the anchor line

Northwest Paddleboarding is blunt about where an anchor clips: “the leash plug or any D-ring on your board. Avoid bungees, they aren’t made to handle the tension.” So the line lands on the same small hardware everything else is fighting over.

The deck pad

Booked

your hands and feet

Buyers are told to pick “a full deck pad, so you can use the entire surface of the board.” SUP Scout puts your reference point at the carry handle, which “marks your board’s balance point.” The whole plane is a standing surface.

Or nothing at all

$14.95

no hardware

A 5.2″ moulded base, about 3.6 ounces, that the drink stands in. It uses none of the four, leaves nothing behind, and travels in the same dry bag as the pump.

Sources: outdoormaster.com · northwestpaddleboarding.com · seavasana.com · paddlingmag.com · supscout.com. All fetched 2 September 2026 and quoted as published.

And then there is the part nobody says out loud. On a board, the deck is also the floor. Anything you screw down, glue down or strap down permanently is something you will later kneel on, stand on or lie on. That is why the right answer here is not a better mount. It is no mount.

—What the board already tried

Five standard fixes, and why each one fails here.

None of these is a bad product. Each of them is a fine product on a surface that is not a paddleboard.

  • Wedged under the nose bungee

    The wrong end of the board even when the cord is free — your hands are up there in downward dog and your feet are up there when you step forward. A bottle under a cord ends up on its side, and straw lids do not love that.

  • A lanyard or a tether

    It stops the bottle sinking. It does nothing at all about upright, and it leaves a loop of cord loose on the exact surface you are about to put a palm on.

  • A suction mount

    Suction needs a smooth, non-porous surface to seal against, and a full-length EVA traction pad is not one. On a yoga-length pad there is nothing left aboard for it to grip.

  • An adhesive, glue-down holder

    A hard ring bonded permanently to the surface you put your hip on. It is the only fix on this list that can leave a bruise.

  • A hydration pack

    The default hands-free answer for paddling, and inert the moment you sit down, lie down or step off. You cannot lie on your belly wearing a bladder.

Deck-pad and pose geography from paddlingmag.com · supscout.com · irockersup.com · bluefinsupboards.com, fetched 2 September 2026. The verdicts on each fix are ours.

The pattern

Every one of them is permanent, or asks for hardware, or both. On a deck whose job changes five times in an hour — carry it, pump it, paddle it, sit on it, lie on it — permanent is the one thing you cannot afford.

The other pattern

They are all trying to solve sipping while you paddle. Nobody actually does that. You stop, or you land, and then you drink — which is a much easier problem, and the one this is built for.

What is left

Something that needs no hardware, holds nothing down, and comes off the board in one hand. That is a base, not a mount.

—Does it actually work

It leans. Then it comes back level.

Somebody drops onto the cushion beside it and the can returns upright on its own. The base is 5.2 inches across, so the drink has to lean a long way past its own footprint before it goes over.

Filmed on a couch cushion, indoors, not on a board. It is the footage we have, and a cushion is a soft surface that moves — the harder case rather than the flattering one. What it does not show is a board on the water, with you on it or without you. We make no claim about that, and the limits below say so in plain words.

A full can standing in a bone-coloured Steadi on a grey couch cushion, a living room behind it.
Real footage, one take, no cuts.

—How it holds

Width. And a surface that never has to be smooth.

The base

5.2 inches across and fixed — it does not expand, contract or deform. It puts the edge the drink would have to tip past much further out than the can’s own bottom, so the whole thing has to lean much further before it goes.

The fins

Six of them, gripping the bottom inch. They start 0.92 inches apart and flex to 3.15. Cans and bottles slide on over the top; glasses and tumblers drop in through the fins. After that the drink and the base move as one piece.

The texture

It does not use suction, so a textured EVA pad is not a problem for it — there is no seal to make and nothing to fail in the sun. It is TPU, not silicone: Shore 85A, with enough tack to resist sliding on a wet pad.

A macro photograph of the flared foot of a terracotta Steadi, showing the moulded STEADI mark and the grain of the material.
The flare, close up. That width is the entire mechanism.

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—The object

One piece of moulded rubber. Nothing to fit, nothing left behind.

There is no clamp, no strap, no suction cup, no adhesive pad and no base plate to install. Nothing is drilled, nothing is glued, and nothing is added to a board that cost more than the roof rack. You set it down, the drink goes in, and when the deck needs to be clear you pick it up in one hand.

  • Base5.2″ — fixed
  • Height2.8″
  • Opening at rest1.64″
  • Weightabout 3.6 oz
  • Fins6, from 0.92″ up, flexing to 3.15″
  • MaterialShore 85A TPU, BPA free
  • Hardware requiredNone
  • Board modificationNone
  • Does it floatNo — it sinks
  • CleaningRinse, wipe, or dishwasher
A hand carrying a terracotta Steadi with a full can seated in it, held by the base at waist height.
Picked up drink and all, one hand. That is the whole install and the whole removal.

—What seats, and what does not

Bases between two and three inches. Measure the bottom, not the lid.

Bottles taper and tumblers flare, so the name on the container tells you nothing. A standard 12 oz can is 2.6 inches across the bottom. A 40 oz Stanley Quencher is 3.1 and seats snug. The 30 oz IceFlow is 3.2 and is an honest no, even though the 40 oz Quencher seats. A 32 oz wide-mouth Nalgene is 3.5 and is a straight no. Handled mugs and stemmed glasses do not seat at all — the handle and the stem land exactly where the fins have to grip.

Search by container

Every width below comes from a published specification, not from us. Where a spec is uncertain, the answer says so.

Or the width across the bottom

A width across the bottom of the container, in inches.

Six terracotta Steadis in a row, each holding a different size of aluminium can, on a kitchen counter.
Slim, standard, tallboy, stovepipe. The fins take the bottom inch of each.

Without a tape measure, at the truck

A standard sticky note is three inches square. Stand your bottle on one at the put-in. If the base sits inside the paper, it seats. If it overhangs, it does not.

Borderline, or a container nobody has heard of — hello@steadilabs.com reaches a person, and the answer will be honest either way, including a no.

—Where they actually end up

The tailgate, the dock plank, the cooler lid, the board on the sand.

A paddle day is mostly not paddling. It is the twenty minutes at the truck with the pump, the ten minutes on the dock getting the fin in, the hour beached or tied to the dock talking to people, and the pack-up. Those are the parts where you actually drink, and every one of them happens on something flat and still.

So that is what this is for: the open tailgate at the put-in, the dock plank while you rig, the cooler lid while it is sitting on the sand, the picnic table at the launch, and the board itself once it is lying on the sand — which by then is the cleanest flat surface anybody brought.

Twelve colours, and people buy one per board. It is the fastest way to stop the argument about whose can is whose when four boards come out of the same truck.

A white Steadi holding an orange can on a paddleboard deck, another paddler downriver and a red rock ridgeline across the horizon.
The board, on the water. Taken on the river, not staged — and the page still does not claim anything about how it behaves while you are paddling.

—What the aisle costs

Everything else in this aisle needs a piece of your board.

Prices and mount requirements below are each seller’s own published figures, looked up on 4 September 2026, not estimated. The last column is what the product asks the board for.

The productPriceWhat it asks of your board
Floatsup Cup Drink Holder (nixysports.com)$19.95Bungee cords with nothing already under them. The listing’s own words: it “installs effortlessly under existing bungee cords.” Which is fine, right up until the cords are holding the paddle.
Paddle North Cup Holder (paddlenorth.com)$30.00A 1/4″-20 Universal Action Mount, which Paddle North describes as “included on our Portager, Play, Karve Kayak, and Utility Dock Loaded.” If your board is not one of theirs, there is nothing to screw it into.
RAILBLAZA DrinkHold (railblaza.com)$14.00 + $16.00A base. Railblaza says to “snap it into any StarPort, RailMount, or TracLoader base” — and the StarPort Base is a separate $16.00, fitted to the deck. $30.00 before it holds a can.
The nose bungee you already ownFreeThat it is not already holding your paddle, your PFD or your dry bag. On the days it is free this genuinely works, and it costs nothing to try tomorrow.
The Paddleboard Cup Holder$14.95 · four for $39.95, $9.99 eachNothing. Anything flat is enough — the deck pad, the tailgate, the dock plank, the cooler lid — and it lifts straight off again.

One row in that table costs nothing at all, and it is the bungee already on your board. Of the ones you can buy, RAILBLAZA’s DrinkHold at $14.00 comes in ninety-five cents under our single — right up until you add the $16.00 base it snaps into. We are not the cheapest thing you can buy for a board, and we are not going to pretend to be. We are the one that asks the board for nothing.

If your bungee is genuinely free on the days you paddle, use the bungee. It is free, it is already on the board, and no accessory beats free. This page is for the days it is holding your paddle.

Sources: nixysports.com · paddlenorth.com · railblaza.com. Prices and mount requirements fetched 4 September 2026 and current as of that date.

—Get one

How many boards, and what colour goes on which.

Count boards, not people — most households here have two. Free shipping on every pack, and 90 days to decide.

Checkout is handled by Steadi Labs — the company that makes The Paddleboard Cup Holder. Secure checkout at steadilabs.com. Free shipping on every order, and 90 days to change your mind, used is fine.

—From people who bought one

None of these is from a paddleboard. One of them is from someone about to try.

Verbatim and unedited. We went looking for a review written on a board and there is not one in the corpus — so here is the closest the corpus honestly gets, and we are telling you what each one is before you read it.

A black Steadi on a grandstand bench holding a canned drink in a glitter koozie, a spectator's leg beside it, at an outdoor race
Photograph sent in by Holly J with this review.

★★★★★

Steadi- Just what I was looking for! I purchased these to use at our annual NASCAR race this month. They delivered beyond my expectations. Our seats are metal benches with a slight slope towards the back, making it impossible to set down any type of drink. We were able to use these for a 20oz bottle with a koozie on it as well as a slim can with an insulated Brumate on it! They worked perfect, holding our drinks on the bench & on our cooler. I highly recommend for sporting fans, boaters, outdoor adventures. Thanks for making these!

Holly J · June 2026 — a grandstand, not a board. It is here for the cooler lid and the sloping bench, which are the same two surfaces as a put-in.Photo from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyer

A white Stanley insulated tumbler seated in a black drink base standing on an open spiral planner covered in handwritten to-do notes, with a basket of pens alongside
Photograph sent in by Connie Waters with this review.

★★★★★

Excellent. Fits my small Stanley water bottle perfectly. Highly recommended

Connie Waters · June 2026 — a kitchen, almost certainly. It is here only because the Stanley question is the one everybody asks first.Photo from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyer

★★★★★

My Steadi order arrived just as we were packing for our annual three generation family vacation. So into the car they went. Our time away is at a rental property and preventing spills in someone else’s house seems like a good goal. Additionally, most of our time is spent outside, at the house and nearby parks. The Steadi has been popular for sitting out under a pop up canopy on lawn chairs and at a picnic at a nearby state park. We brought the four we ordered and have already placed an order for more since family members have claimed the first ones! We will be boating a lot this week and are certainly looking forward to seeing how they function in canoes and kayaks at the lake. So far very pleased with the Steadi! Hoping a larger version for insulated drink bottles is in the future. Thanks for a great product!

Haila Buskirk · May 2026 — the closest anyone in our corpus gets to a board, and note the tense: she was looking forward to seeing how they do in canoes and kayaks. She had not tried it on the water yet when she wrote that.

★★★★★

They are great! They work very well in keeping the soda cans from falling over and spilling on the bed & couch when the three Beagles and one Border Collie jump on or off. They also stay steady on the little wobbly patio table outside.

Susan Ilkenhans · May 2026 — a patio table, outdoors. The wobble is the part that matters here.

17 more, photographed by the people who bought them

Sent in with their reviews. Tap any one to read it. Different rooms, different drinks, different colours — none of them staged by us. Some of these buyers were offered a small store credit for sending a photo; nothing was offered for what the review said, and none of them were shown to us before they posted.

A slice of one product-wide corpus — reviews of the Steadi, not of this page and not of this use. The full corpus is published live, unfiltered.

—The limits, in one place

What it does not do, said before you buy it.

—If it turns out to be the wrong thing

Ninety days. Used is fine. Nothing goes back in a box.

Take it out for a whole summer of Saturdays. If the answer is no, hello@steadilabs.com reaches a person and the money comes back — no form, no restocking fee, no questions about condition, and nothing to pack up or post.

  1. You order. Free shipping, every order, always.
  2. It leaves Orange, California within one business day.
  3. USPS, 2–5 days, tracked.

—Who makes it

Steadi Labs. One person, in Orange, California.

The steel injection mould open in the machine, the cavity that forms the base visible.
The mould, in the machine.
Scott Rodriguez at a workbench, holding a terracotta Steadi and looking at it, with shipping boxes behind him.
Scott, who makes them.

Scott Rodriguez made the first one after a full drink went over on a soft cushion, with three kids under three in the house. That is the whole origin story and it has nothing to do with water.

Nobody with a paddleboard asked for this page. It exists because a wide fixed foot behaves the same way on a deck pad as it does on a cushion, and because everything it does not do out there is written above rather than left for you to find out.

We make one thing and we make all of it here — the mould, the material, the colour runs, everything inside about three and a half miles of the shop. It is moulded in small runs, not bought from a catalogue and rebranded.

  • Steadi Labs — veteran founded and veteran owned
  • Designed, injection moulded, picked, packed and shipped in Orange, California
  • Patent pending
  • 100% BPA free
  • 5.2 inches across the foot, about 3.6 ounces

— Scott, Steadi Labs

—Questions

Straight answers.

Will it stay put while I’m paddling?

We do not claim that, and we are not going to. It has not been tested on a board under way and nothing loose on a deck should be trusted through a wake. Treat it as gear for the still parts of the day — the tailgate, the dock, the beach, the cooler lid — and put it in the dry bag before you launch.

My board is inflatable, not a hard board. Does that matter?

Not to the base. Most iSUPs are rated for 12–15 PSI — check your own board’s printed maximum — and at pressure the deck feels close to rigid underfoot. The foot does not care what is under the pad; it needs flat and reasonably level, which a pumped board on the sand is.

Will it damage or mark my deck pad?

There is no adhesive, no suction cup and no hardware, so there is nothing to leave behind. It is one piece of TPU standing on the pad. It marks nothing and lifts clean.

Does it float?

No. It sinks. Soaked all day in spray, rain and a wet pad is completely fine and it rinses off, but if it goes over the side into deep water it is gone. We would rather you knew that now than found out in a cove.

Will it hold a 40 oz Stanley?

Yes. The Quencher H2.0 40 oz is about 3.1 inches at the base, inside what the fins flex to. It is a snug fit rather than a drop-in, so it seats with a push. The 30 oz IceFlow at 3.2 inches is an honest no.

I do SUP yoga. Where would it even go?

Honestly: at the put-in and at the take-out, not during class. Read the limits above first — we make no claim about an anchored board with somebody moving on it, and a bottle inboard on the tail is advice about bottles rather than a claim about this. The two minutes at the buoy before the first breath, and the tailgate afterwards, are the windows this is for.

What about a mug of coffee for the drive out?

If it has a handle, no. The handle lands exactly where a fin has to grip, and that is a straight no rather than a maybe. A lidded tumbler with a plain flat bottom between two and three inches is the container this was built for.

Can I put it in the dishwasher?

Yes. Shore 85A TPU, 100% BPA free. Rinse it in the lake, wipe it, or put it on the top rack when you get home.

Why does this site only sell one thing?

Because it is one thing. It is a Steadi, made by Steadi Labs in Orange, California, and checkout finishes at steadilabs.com where the company lives.

—Still deciding

$14.95 for a piece of rubber.

It is. The other three products in the table are $19.95, $30.00 and $30.00 once you have bought the base, and all three want something from the board. Ninety days covers being wrong about it, used, with nothing to post back.

This looks like an ad I’d scroll past.

Fair. So: no countdown, no stock counter, no claim it cannot spill, no footage of a board it has never been filmed on. What is here is one photograph we took, one video shot indoors, three competitor prices with the sellers named, and a list of what it will not do.

I’ll just use the bungee.

Do, on the days it is empty. It is free and it is already there. The reason this page exists is the other days — the paddle is under it, or the PFD is, or the anchor line came off the D-ring and is lying across the deck.

It doesn’t float, so I’ll lose it.

Only over the side. Wet is fine — rain, spray, a streaming pad, the lake itself. It lives in the dry bag on the water and comes out at the dock, which is where the drink was going to happen anyway.

Everything else on that board has a strap, a plug, or a job.

This is the one thing that finally has somewhere to sit — and it needs none of them.

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