Kayak

[Rickey Noel Mitchell]

I reviewed one for paddler magazine. Ovis is selling the fiberglass model for about $1600 . It was great as a river craft I didn't like it on open water.
It is quit stable due to a trihull desigh and standiing and casting isn't a great feet. There are several canoe and kayak hybreds on the market. Between Adventure Sports and California Canoe and Kayak right there in Sac you can try any of them which you do before you buy any craft.
Back to the native craft I repeat it's and extremely stable craft. Except for maybe Ed

[JayDubP]

appears this is not made by Orvis, when I googled I found the site: http://www.nativewatercraft.net/

They state they are the manufacturer & have a couple of other boats, including longer versions of same kayak.

Pictures and descriptions Orvis uses are on this website.

There are dealers in N California.

[Ed Wahl]

Ouch.

[dtp916]

I'm surprised by Orvis:

1. The dude should be wearing a PFD.
2. Normally such "glam" shots are reserved for Perk Perkins!

I bet that water is less that 3 feet deep.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

I think stability would be my most important feature in a kayak.

The American River is 90% flat and moving slow especially now with the flow down to 1500 cfs.

I (think) would like a kayak that was small and light for sloughs and small ponds.

Rickey....what should I be looking at?

I know that kayaks can be a lot of things for many different uses.

[Rickey Noel Mitchell]

The Altura that I had at the Expo's are the best ones for having good control and stability.

Let's go fishing.

[Rob]

[quote="Ed Wahl"]No offense to you kayak people, but the text in that photo didn't take prams into account. Oops, just looked at it again, now it's making me laugh, the guys legs are taught as a bowstring, he's working hard to pull that off. Standing up in canoes can be done also, but c'mon, it's not really their forte is it. I will hand it to that guy in the photo, he's got an excellent sense of balance. Ed[/quote

You would never catch me standing in a boat that small.!!!
I have enough trouble on dry land !!!