Paddling tips, tricks, news and gear reviews from an Unsponsored point of view
A long time ago HF produced the Serpent PFD that was designed and developed by Allan Ellard. It was a great piece of gear that had a huge following. For 2020 Astral has developed the Serpent 2.0.
The new design is extremely similar to the original with an update in materials, some of the ergonomics and and increase of 20N in buoyancy to a total of 70N.
Continue readingVerus Kayaks is a company I haven’t really come across until I spotted a post on Instagram a couple of weeks back. With a number of plastic and carbon/kevlar designs they look very interesting. Have you paddled one of their kayaks?
Titan have some pretty nice looking colour combinations for the Nymph.
Which one would you go for?
Continue readingA brand new Yak Taurus PFD landed at Unsponsored HQ at the end of August 2019. Since then it has seen a hundred hours of use.
When it first landed I thought that it was one of the best looking PFDs I had seen in some time. It reminded me a great deal of some of the Lotus PFDs from the 1990s in both its shape and size.
Continue readingThe Ozone is Pyranha’s long-awaited return to the river-running playboat market.
North East Kayaks have a Nookie Octane womens dropseat drysuit. Looks pretty good.
We have received these two leaked images of a composite prototype kayak that is currently being developed.
I reckon cold hands are almost worse than cold feet. When my hands get cold they hurt and as they warm back up they really hurt. If the air and water temperature isn’t too bad then I’ll go through the pain barrier as once my hands are warm they’ll stay warm.
However if it is super cold then its hard to push through the pain barrier as it takes so much longer. Cold hands will limit your ability to hold stuff. If you aren’t able to hold your paddle then you are pretty stuffed.
Continue readingA few images of a couple of Dagger Rewinds from today.
Nice to see the Rewind lined up with a RPM. Seems quite fitting.
Continue readingAdrian Mattern has 9 tips to make your drysuit last longer.
Continue readingI have been abusing drysuits for so many years now that I figured out a few key points which- if you take SOME care about, will maximize the lifetime of your drysuit by a lot! I have realized that just by taking a few caretaking steps there is absolutely no need to get a new drysuit every single season or so.
Adrian Mattern
Chris Gragtmans has this Dagger Vanguard prototype for the season. What do you think?
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