Spoiled
I’m so spoiled that I forget how spoiled I am. I paddle one of the kayaks I built. In the world of kayaks, it is…
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NC Kayaks Features
The Keel Strip
The Keel Strip It was recently pointed out to me that we do something in our build process that isn’t commonly done. I learned to…
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Failure Modes
The first time I heard the phrase, “failure modes,” was in a program about the Three Mile Island disaster. If I remember correctly, a…
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Do you know who built your kayak?
If You Get an NC Kayak… In a world where manufacturing is increasingly automated, each NC Kayak is hand-built in the Northwest, by just two…
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We build our kayaks to hold their course.
Straight Talk We build our kayaks to hold their course. It’s not that they’re unaffected by wind and waves. It’s that we’ve worked to minimize…
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Performance Flange
The Performance Flange What is a performance flange? It is a part of each of our kayaks and it was installed to solve one problem,…
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