A brave new world…sort of.
Several years ago a few whitewater kayak manufacturers decided it would be a sweet idea to put a storage compartment into one of their boats. The idea rocked but it was a little before it's time and sales were a little less than stellar.
Enter 2009 and it's a whole new world of boating. The market has finally arrived for whitewater boats with storage capacity. Source to sea expeditions are taking place on rivers around the globe. Very few of these rivers have epic whitewater or glassy flat water the entire way and kayak manufacturers have made note of this and two of them stepped up to the plate with new boats for the growing genre.
The first of which is Liquid Logic.
They took their uber popular Remix from last year, puffed it up a little, added some storage and a skeg (drop down rudder looking thing) and have a rocking new boat called the Remix XP. It comes in two sizes and looks quite capable of handling the big stuff while still being enjoyable for the paddle out.
The other boat is the new Jackson All Water.
Again quite a capable boat with a storage compartment and a stowable skeg. These two new boats are bringing back an idea that was a bit ahead of it's time at what we believe to be just the right time.