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Gainesville entrepreneur builds better paddleboard
Design adds storage, anchor to popular watercraft
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Ian Ross, an Olympic canoer, tries out the F3 stand-up paddleboard in Lake Lanier.
Brian Hollis has spent a lifetime on the water, in and around boats. As a child, he was tossed amid the wake on an inner tube and later at the end of a tow rope both on skis and barefoot. He’s taught water-skiing to students from around the world, and he grew into boatbuilding, tooling a 40-foot-plus beast with three massive engines.