Description

2025 McConks Go Wild 9’8i x5 – an award winning beginner whitewater paddle board.

Designed by experienced paddlers for beginners and experts alike.

This is our beginner paddleboard for the lighter whitewater paddlers amongst you.  Based on our award winning 6″ thick Go Wild 9’8, this has had an inch of thickness shaved off to right size the volume for the smaller paddler.  Still a perfectly stable platform to get any beginner down the river, but sits in the water better for those smaller paddlers under 75kg.

A great McConks paddle board for beginners.

It is very much designed as a beginner’s whitewater paddle board – a super stable platform that allow you to develop your core underpinning whitewater skills, but also allows a bit of fun as you start to develop.

What we’ve ended up with is a knife-edge compromise between a board that paddles in a straight line to the run, is a very stable board for total whitewater SUP beginners, holds its line in ferry glides, eddies in and out easily, and yet is loose in river waves. Whilst being plenty applicable for anyone paddling at the coast or on non-moving water.

If that doesn’t sound possible, this is how:

Whitewater paddle board key features

• 9’8 x 36″ x 5″ inch board –  stable width and volume, optimised length with a slightly sportier feel than the x6 version
• X woven double skin drop stitch – the best technology on the market for stiffness and weight
• 9″ nose rocker – to avoid the nose pearling (submersing)
• 3″ tail rocker to run out of those features
• 4+1 fins.  Run as twin, quad, 2+1 thruster, 4+1 or single fin
• Deckpad with rear stomp-pad to keep traction and feet planted
• 27PSI pressure guarantee.  This board will not leak or fail.  Whether it be the River Nile, the Zambezi or the River Usk it will last you forever.
• Shaped rails on the rear section of the rails.
• The Go Wild only weighs 11.5kg with fins

What’s included in this McConks paddle board package

Like all McConks packages the paddle board comes with our premium wheeled rucksack, fins, connect leash with waistbelt, and repair kit. There’s also a GoPro screw mount on the nose of the board so you can securely record your adventures and exploits without fear of losing your action camera.

The preorder paddle board package comprises:

• Board
• Bag
• Repair kit
• Fins
• Coiled leash for waist belt (Note – we don’t include a waist belt as standard, but you have a range of discounted waist belts to choose from)

If you need a pump and a paddle, then you need to select these from the options available.  The price will automatically update based on the options you select.

Delivery to UK mainland, NI and Highland & Islands is free.

Delivery elsewhere may vary and may not be possible.   If there is no shipping option for your address, please contact us at sh**@mc*****.com for a bespoke shipping quote.

We said award winning.  We don’t say such things lightly.  Check out this video to see what award the board won!  https://supboardermag.com/2023/10/19/white-water-isup-test-2023-supboarder-pro-head-to-head/