Quick Answer The right inflatable kayak isn’t the cheapest one, and it isn’t the most expensive one — it’s the one that matches how and where you want to paddle, and how far you want to take the sport. A cheap inflatable kayak can make sense for occasional, calm-water paddling close to shore. A higher-quality…
The Intex Challenger K1 isn’t a pool toy — it’s a legitimate, low-risk way to find out if you like kayaking, as long as you understand its limits.
Trip Report Killarney Provincial Park is one of my favorite places on earth, and this spring I finally got to return after a year off the water. A frozen shoulder kept me sidelined through a good portion of last summer, so this trip was as much about getting back into a boat as it was…
TRAK Kayak Review – Verdict The TRAK 2.0 is a portable sea/touring kayak and the most versatile kayak on the market because its hydraulically adjustable rocker lets you reshape the hull to optimize the kayak’s performance for different paddling conditions. But this all comes at a cost, requires a longer setup process, and wasn’t designed…
Lifetime Lockport Kayak Review – Verdict The Lifetime Lockport is a $400 split-hull recreational kayak that solves the storage and transport problem for paddlers, without sacrificing the on-water feel and durability of a real kayak. If you can’t transport or store a full size kayak, a portable kayak might be your only option. The good…
Verdict: A sea kayak or touring kayak do the same job — efficient travel on open water — and neither one is only for advanced paddlers. The biggest difference is that a touring kayak trades some speed for extra stability. If you’re shopping for your first long, narrow kayak, you’ve probably run into both terms…
Choosing a kayak should be easy, right? I mean, how many different types of kayaks are there? Well, you’ve got sit-on-tops, sit-insides, recreational, touring, sea, whitewater, portable, fishing, folding, skin-on-frame, inflatable, modular, tandem, pedal, composite, plastic, thermoformed, rotomolded… Point is, it isn’t easy to choose a kayak! But I can help you narrow it down,…