At 09:55 AM 1/28/03 -0600, Joyce, Thomas F. wrote: >I got an Umiak for our younger kids and it has worked great. > There are no bulkheads, so on trips you have to be a little more > careful to waterproof whatever goes into the Umiak. Keeping things waterproof may be an issue but if it doesn't have bulkheads it should have floatbags. There are a couple of other possibilities for kids kayaks. EPI (Englehart Products, Inc.) has been building kayaks specifically for kids for years. Like the Umiak, the EpiSea is a scaled down versions of a "real" sea kayak. Their web site is at: http://www.emc-epi.com/epi.html Another option could be building a kit from Pygmy. Their Golden Eye 10 model is targeted for paddlers in the 5-10 year old range. It would also make a great family project. I'm thinking about building one with my nieces in a couple of years. >Make sure to get a nice small paddle sized to the child. My youngest >chose a small Greenland paddle I had lying around the boathouse and >refused even to use the Euro paddle that we got with the boat. Werner makes a nice little kids paddle. One of it's features is that it has a smiley face on each blade. It's actually functional and not just a cute add on. Even my 4 year old niece figured out how to hold the paddle when I told her to "keep the smiley faces smiling". *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jan 28 2003 - 08:43:54 PST
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