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Re: Review: oru kayaks?
By:Mike Bielski
Date: 1/12/2017, 11:23 pm
In Response To: Review: oru kayaks? (Yoshi)

I took a ridiculous mess of an instructor certification class for whitewater kayaking where someone had one and was using it for the flat water rescues portion of the class. It has no bulkheads. The owner had no float bags. It has no perimeter lines. The deck lines are little rubber straps that slip over knobs, and can't be used to grab because they pop off. I was afraid that the kayak would come apart or buckle as I pulled it onto my deck full of water, and it was impossible to drain because of the difficulty getting it on the deck, and although not the kayak's fault, the lack of float bags. Unless I were messing about on a pond or small lake I would avoid them. Wouldn't take them on any river or any body of water that would see anything more than glassy smooth water. I was able to do the rescue- on a glassy smooth pond without the aid of the person also taking the certification class, who had no experience. If it were real world I'd make the chump swim it to shore and deal with it himself. Give him a tow at most. Not the kayak- the kayak has no attachment points to anchor a tow or throw rope.

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Review: oru kayaks?
Yoshi -- 1/12/2017, 12:32 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 1/12/2017, 12:40 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 1/12/2017, 1:44 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 1/12/2017, 2:38 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/12/2017, 3:07 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 1/13/2017, 3:57 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 1/13/2017, 6:46 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 1/14/2017, 1:43 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 1/12/2017, 11:23 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/13/2017, 12:00 am
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Etienne Muller -- 1/13/2017, 4:21 am
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Thomas Duncan -- 1/14/2017, 9:01 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/17/2017, 1:01 am
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Mark Rakestraw -- 1/16/2017, 6:53 pm