We have considered buying composite kayaks because they are quite a bit lighter than our polyethelyne ones and as I said above, lifting is starting to be a challenge. We’ll see how this season goes. They are fairly expensive–so that price seems in line. I just looked around and realized that our 700 dollar boats would be more like 12/1400 now, and they’re not composite. So that price looks decent to me. It’s a good boat–will last a long time. Should track well.
I will say that if you don’t mind weight, our “plastic” boats have lasted over 20 years and are in good shape still.
We have a radsportz kayak trolley from Amazon that works well. We stack our two kayaks and trolley them from car to lake. We have Sam’s club impulse buy Lifetime kayaks that work fine for what we do. They’re fairly heavy but the trolley can handle them together.
Admittedly I am looking back somewhat far in the posts to this thread. However, wow, that is quite a video that you posted (I think that this is back on post 12). If I were 50 years younger I would want to try this out.
It looks like if you fall off of a sit-on-top kayak it is quite a bit easier to get back on compared to a sit-inside kayak.
We carry a paddle float for getting back on in deep water. My H can do it; I practiced it one day quite a few years ago, pretty sure I couldn’t manage it now. My plan is never fall out. It has gone well so far.
Obviously, it requires practice to develop that level of skill…
Yes, and no bailing needed afterward (assuming self-bailing venturis). But may be also why some people using sit inside kayaks with the spray skirts want to learn how to roll, so that they can recover from flipping without having to get out, get back in, and bail out the water.
Best to practice. A paddle float may not be necessary.
