Thompson Boathouse just south of Key Bridge & Georgetown charges like ~$5 to use the dock. It's super easy, just walk in & tell them & they'll set you up fast.

Or... just stroll right by the boathouse, onto the tiny little Mile Marker 0 peninsula just past it/south of it, & blow up there. You can either launch from the beach (hard) or just drop your board over the (out) side of old lock 1 and hop on (not hard but kind of intimidating). At your own risk!

On the downside, to my knowledge, neither has a particularly great place for stashing the bag & extra gear (pump). Maybe the boathouse has a real recommendation/some way to help, but I haven't asked. I've kind of left mine, well, wherever, & so far it has never been an issue.

Please see other posts to insure you meet legal requirements. ;)

Inflatable SUPs are great. I love being able to bike my board around.

The tree that used to lean way over NH right next to this was one of my favorite trees in the city. Somewhere I have a Google Maps screenshot of that wonderful tree. Probably gone like ~5 years now?

Just my opinion here, but... there's only a couple ultra-problematic shits that make things unpleasant. Being in a city doesn't give them license to be giant prats to entire neighborhoods.

Have some respect & decency for your fellow man.

EV's for example have mandatory sound making requirements (the "hum" sound is fake). We're not talking about making cars silent here. We're talking about dealing with the very loud offenders. So I'm not sure what your qualm is.

Ah yes, public peace, how horrible that would be!

What don't you like about this?

"Here's my take: car horns should be as loud inside the car as outside"

HOLLLYYYYYY SSHHIIITTTT yes!!! /swoon

People who aggressively honk & freak out anytime they feel mildly inconvenienced are monsters, are absolutely some of the worst noise offenders. I try and try and try to think of what on earth we could possibly do about these garbage subhumans. This is such a great suggestion.

I'm really curious if that would change anything over automated enforcement.

If someone has $4k in long overdue tickets & they get pulled over, could they potentially have their car booted or impounded? If so, then yeah pulling people seems like a decent plan to start handling some of the shitty drivers. But if the cop can only issue another ticket & send them on their way, there wouldn't be any advantage vs automated (un-)enforcement.

Carmageddon was such a great game haha.

If you'd asked me 2 years ago I also would have said 80% of the problem is those two cars specifically.

Now a days though, I'm not noticing any core group of offenders, it's gotten pretty diverse.

The worst is the worst by a lot though: there is a regular Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk who shows up every couple weeks late at night & does as much as they can to be loud. You can hear coming & going for miles, screaming out of every start-stopping. There's a bunch of Audis and some Lamborghinis that seem semi-regular offenders. There's the guy who has a vespa-style scooter & locks up the brakes & has this absurd 'omg is someone going to die' near-accident wheels screeching sound as they approach every stop sign; that is a very special breed of asshole, and one who must spend a lot a lot a lot of money on their tiny tires to keep pulling that shit, but thankfully they only show up a couple times a year (again late at night).

Pre 2020 though, holy cow yes it was so wild how these two cars specifically were a constant menace to the public peace.