Every question, answered.

It sinks — no float built in, worth knowing up front. Soaking it on a wet deck pad, in spray, or in rain all day is completely fine, and it rinses clean after. But send it off the rail into open water and it's gone for good, the same as anything else that goes over on a board. Keep it inboard of the rail and it's not something you have to think about.

That's specifically what the wide base is built for. It spreads across the texture instead of trying to balance on one point of it, and the fins keep a can or bottle from working loose as the board rocks. Tip it with a chop or a wake and it settles back level on its own.

That's the one honest miss on this board. Its base runs about 3.5 inches, past the top of the roughly 2-to-3-inch range that settles in. A can, a standard bottle, or the 40 oz tumbler all fit — the wide-mouth Nalgene is the exception.

It fits — the base lands comfortably inside the range, and it's the container this audience is most likely to already own.

No. It doesn't thread under the nose rigging like a bungee-slide holder or need the glossy surface a suction mount requires. It sits loose on the deck pad, the cooler lid, or the dock, and it works without any of them.

Both. Most iSUPs ride at about 12 to 15 PSI and feel close to rigid on deck once they're pumped up, and the base doesn't care which core is under the pad — textured EVA is textured EVA either way.

It's low enough to set off to the side of your mat and pick back up between poses. The point is giving the bottle a spot other than rolling loose on the pad while you're moving through a sequence.

Rinse it at the take-out or run it through the dishwasher at home. It's one piece of solid flexible material with no seams or hinges for grit to hide in.

It's called the Steadi, molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs — veteran-founded, patent pending. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 30 days to decide if it's earned a permanent spot on the board.

Most paddlers run one per board, set wherever's convenient — the deck pad, the cooler lid, the dock. At a raft-up with several boards tied together there's nothing to pass around or share: since it sits loose rather than mounting to anything, each board — or each paddler who wants a drink within reach — just brings its own.

It's one piece of solid flexible material with no seams, hinges, or metal hardware — nothing like a suction cup's seal or a clamp's screws to corrode or dry out from repeated saltwater and sun. Rinse it after a bay or coastal session the same way you'd rinse the board itself, and it's ready for the next one.

No — it isn't insulation and doesn't claim to be. It holds whatever's already in your hand steady on deck; a thermos, an insulated bottle, or a can handles the actual temperature. In full sun an insulated container is worth bringing regardless of what it's sitting in — an uninsulated drink heats up fast out on open water with nothing shading it.

It comes in water-suited colors — Dry Bag, Sea Glass, Glassy, Sunrise, Deep Cove, Morning Sky, Buoy Red, Sandbar — and there's nothing to size to a specific board, so it works on whatever they already own or rent. It ships free and is molded in small runs in Orange, California.

That's the tippiest thing most people bring on a board — tall for its width, about 2.1 to 2.25 inches at the base, and unlidded, so a tip is a full loss rather than a spill. It's also exactly the shape the fins are built for: they close around the bottom inch regardless of how top-heavy the can is above that line, which is where a slim can actually needs the help.

Yes. A standard-mouth insulated bottle runs a base around 2.8 to 2.9 inches, comfortably inside the 2-to-3-inch range that settles in. It's the wide-mouth bottles and jugs — a 32 oz Nalgene at roughly 3.5 inches — that miss on the other end.

Yes — the base doesn't mount to anything board-specific, so it doesn't care whether the deck under it belongs to a wide all-around cruiser or a longer, narrower touring shape. If anything, a touring board's smaller stability budget is exactly why something that settles back when the deck tilts matters more, not less.

A hydration pack solves hands-free water through a tube; it doesn't give a second drink anywhere to rest. The coffee thermos on a sunrise paddle, the can at the raft-up, the bottle you're not actively sipping from — none of that lives in the bladder, and all of it still needs somewhere on deck to sit between sips. The two solve different parts of the same problem.

It's a low, solid molded base with nothing fragile standing proud of it — no suction dome, no clamp arm, nothing to shear off in a glancing knock. It isn't meant to be walked on directly any more than a fin or a pump is, but an incidental bump while gear's spread across the dock isn't something it's built to fear.