Here at Men's Journal, we constantly test the latest gear to find the best new products you should know about to take your next adventure, workout, wardrobe, and every other part of your life to the next level. That includes everything from the best new adventure gear like a kayak that can double as a fishing boat to the absolute coolest gadgets and innovative tech you should own like a must-have soundbar to upgrade your home theater setup or a pair of bookshelf speakers. Here, check out our editors' favorite picks for Gear of the Week.
[Editor's Note: Check back each week to see an updated list of our favorite new products, along with all the previous weeks' gear picks.]
Pool floats are trendy and, basically, disposable. Considering you can pick up on a beer run to 7-11, they're not exactly built for serious adventures. The designers at Bote know how to build rugged, inflatable SUP—they have one that’s durable enough to strap an engine to. And they've used those same materials to build a floating dock that, while it might not look like it has a lot of bells and whistles, masters the utility of simplicity. The Dock 7 is, as you might have guessed, a 7x7-foot, 8-inch-thick platform that inflates with the standard issue SUP pump. Also available in a 10x10 foot version, we've been testing it in the pool before our lake adventures and this is one serious platform. Made from military-grade PVC, it's stable enough for a few people to sit on (or just over 1,000 pounds), your dog, or stage it with chairs and a cooler.
The top is grippy and ridiculously ridged. Covered with hand grips on the top and sides, it's easy to transport and yank yourself up out of the water. There isn't much this dock can't do: take it to the lake for the family to jump off of or to cast from it, tie it off to an anchor (like a pier) and it stays put, use it as a table for an epic game of pong, ping or beer. At home, we toss it into the pool for a twist on morning stretching routines where we’ve been adding resistance bands to the hand grips where the swaying adds a solid core work. Threaded inserts accept the usual range of 1/4-inch diameter bolts for things like GoPros. You can give yourself a workout inflating it with Bote’s pump, though we just used a battery-powered inflater to make short work of it and a slick valve makes it easy to deflate. At 35 pounds this would be a bit awkward to fit into a bag, but luckily the delivers ship a taco-like sling for the Dock 7 to rest in, which is a lot easier to deal with especially when it's wet.—Sal Vaglica, Men's Journal contributor
[$959; boteboard.com]
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