For the love of Kayaking

little man · 07-03-2011, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Yellow band

Sachita, Littleman, Greco, nice to see you all posting in this wonderful thread.

Littleman privately reached out to me for a source of info. Water people are like that. Good people, and also fun.

This morning as I was reading about Kayak tours I started reading about Arkansas and I thought, wow, why can't the kayakers all meet up at the reunion place and plan a kayak expedition. Then, as you saw, I just got carried away (no pun intended)

Here, where I live, there is a non profit organization that rents kayaks. Thats who I do the tours and instructional courses for. I do not get paid.
It's all for the love of the sport, and the idea is to introduce people to the outdoors and get them outside (and of course get them moving). They use flat bottomed perception kayaks with roomy cockpits and upgraded seats. Ideal for rentals. Then we have the rowing clubs, not non profit, but they keep it so the sport (and all it encompasses) can be affordable.

A tremendous amount of commerce comes through Pittsburgh on the Ohio and Allegheny rivers. I've seen the Mississippi (before I was a kayaker) in Both Baton Rouge and in New Orleans. Comparing that Mississippi to our three rivers, well, the Mississippi was scarey.

My personal kayak is an advanced element (advancedframe) (www.advancedelements.com) inflateable hybrid kayak. 10.5 long, 32 inches wide. **Littleman, the biggest reason I am able to paddle on my knees is my seat collapses into the space behind the seat giving me room for my legs. If you have room for your legs, you'll love this. I was surprised how comfortable this actually was.

Check it out!

YB

i'm on the short side and the cockpit is on the long side...thinking maybe i can manage kneeling. i'm planning on hitting town lake early tomorrow morning, so i'll take my knee pads and see how it works out. my only real concern is whether or not the stability will be affected by shifting my weight forward a bit. we'll see how it works out.

btw...posted a couple pics in the gallery from last weekend's evening excursion.

Dominique · 07-04-2011, 05:39 AM

I'm dragon boat racing this morning at the regatta.

It's so frigging humid, I had gatorade for breakfast. I'm fine inside my IGLOO house.....

Hey littleman, regualr knee pads, when they get wet, slide around. These peel and stick that they sell, are two small rubber mats, and extremely soft rubber knee pads, and they work sort of like suction cups on the mat

If the lake is calm, try it, you've got nothing to loose, but lots to gain. My legs are only 29 inches, so this is very easy for me to do. Be prepared to go fast! (and have a blast!!!)

OK, gotta pack my bicycle bag. After dragon boat racing, the Pirates are back in town!

Happy July 4th to all Americans, Belated happy Cananda day neighbors.....and to all, a great day.

StillettoDoll · 07-04-2011, 09:52 AM

Blaze wanted me to post this pic of his Kayak

Finally got 2 weekends in with the Prism Aquaterra that was worked on all winter.
Not bad, this bad boy caught me 2 Reds, 5 Flounder, 2 Sheepheads, and 4 Pompano at Galveston State Park trail #2. That doesn't include the 3 stingrays that I let go, lol.

Blaze

afixer · 07-26-2011, 09:50 AM

spent most of the day Sunday out on the lake paddling my friends kids around, fun times.

jelli · 07-31-2011, 07:44 PM

We didn't "Canoe the New", but we sure did "Kayak some New".

http://www.ncparks.gov/Visit/parks/neri/main.php

Dominique · 08-01-2011, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by jelli

We didn't "Canoe the New", but we sure did "Kayak some New".

http://www.ncparks.gov/Visit/parks/neri/main.php

WoW!...thanks for posting this....and great info in the links. Beautiful, in a word!

jelli · 08-08-2011, 05:09 AM

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