Adventure Sports Unlimited
303 Potrero Street #15
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(831) 458-3648

 Big fun since 1978

Sponsor the Kayak Surf Festival

The 19th Annual Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival will be taking place on March 18th-20th, 2005 at the world famous Steamer Lane. This event will bring surf kayakers, families and friends from around the world to Santa Cruz to compete and enjoy our festival, water and beaches. Competitors, spectators and volunteers will find a festival atmosphere at the Lane. This includes vendor booths, kayak and gear demo opportunities, a silent auction, food booths, and, of course, the greatest surf kayak competition in the world.

We invite you to participate in this exciting event as a sponsor. There are many great opportunities available to you such as purchasing a booth to display your product; underwriting the cost of printing the informational brochures for the contestants and the silent auction; donating an item to be sold in the silent auction; or providing a product that can be given to each of the athletes. There are many more options for your consideration – please refer to the Sponsor Brochure toward the bottom of this page.

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As the popularity of the sport of surf kayaking grows, so does the viewership for this yearly event. Each day of the festival, hundreds of spectators – many from the San Francisco and Silicon Valley areas – line the cliffs to watch the action on the water, take advantage of visiting the many vendor display booths, browse the silent auction tent, and venture out in demo boats. This event is a great opportunity for you to showcase your product. Each year, our booth space sells out and those sponsors see and talk to hundreds of people throughout the weekend under our grand festival tent. As this event grows in popularity, the media coverage is more intense. You can expect to read about the Festival in Paddler, Canoe & Kayak, Adventure ( National Geographic ), Outside, Blue, and Men’s Journal magazines. It will appear in every major TV network and be covered by most of the news media in the Bay Area. Plus, national networks like Outdoor Life and Gillette World Sports are often attracted by this photogenic extreme sport of kayak surfing. The marketing opportunities are tremendous.

I would like to call you to discuss the many options for sponsorship of the Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival. In the meantime, if you have questions, I can be reached at (831) 425-4886 or dennis at asudoit.com . With partners such as you, this world-class event will continue to be a great success and an opportunity for us to showcase the world famous Steamer Lane as well as promote your company’s name and product.

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Sincerely,
  Dennis Judson
  Festival Host

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This drawing represents the booth area located on the cliffs overlooking the contest site. If you are a booth sponsor please use this schematic to choose your desired area of exhibition. Choice of sites is first-come, first-serve. Please call Dennis Judson, sponsor organizer, at 831.425.4886 to confirm your space.

For an example of past sponsor positions, refer to the 2004 Sponsor page.

Sponsor Brochure

A brochure and letter, with more information, is available.

• 2005 Sponsor Letter (171Kb)
• 2005 Sponsor Brochure (884Kb)

 

Sponsor Application and Contract

You must submit a completed application to sponsor the 2005 Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival held in Santa Cruz California.

• 2005 Sponsor Application and Contract (1486Kb)

After your application has been accepted, you are encouraged to submit a public address information form.

Sponsor Public Address Information

 

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Join Us!

Past surf kayaking competitions at this Santa Cruz site have had a wide variety of media coverage including:

Local radio (Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay Area)

Newspapers: Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News (310,000 circulation), San Francisco Chronicle (530,00 combined circulation), Good Times Newspapers (Santa Cruz)

Magazines: Paddler Magazine (70,000 subscribers), Canoe and Kayak Magazine, National Geographic's Adventure Magazine, Men’s Journal

TV: Outdoor Life Network, Bay Area TV news coverage

Sponsors already committed to the event include:

Kayak Retailer: Adventure Sports, Santa Cruz

Kayak Manufacturers: Confluence, Watermark, Ocean Kayak

Apparel Manufacturers: Teva, Mysterioso

Media: Good Times Newspaper, Paddler Magazine

Beneficiaries: Surfrider Foundation, Save Our Shores

We hope that you will consider partnering with the 2005 Santa Cruz Kayak Surf Festival to gain exposure for your company through an association with this very exciting event!