[Paddlewise] Folding boats

>I do maintain, from a European perspective,
>that the increased popularity of cheap outboard motors
>in the sixties reduced the customer base for folding kayaks / boats.
 
I always thought that one of the main reasons 
for the decline of interest for folding kayaks in that period,
came form the growing ownership of cars...
People did not have to transport their kayak by train anymore...
(Which worked very well, especially in Germany, 
German trains even had special prices for that?)
The growing use of the outboard motors had its influence on
the whole paddling market I think, not only folding boats?

Dirk Barends
(the Netherlands, Europe)

http://huizen.dds.nl/~dbarends/cwp.html



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