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Check out my thoughts on the Royale here.
For the past few years I have been using Immersion Research decks for both playboating and creek duties.
Thanks to the guys at Immersion Research I was hooked up with one of the brand new Immersion Research The Royale spray skirts.
The Immersion Research Royale is a rand based spraydeck with a lip that sits on the outside of the rand.
I have owned the Immersion Research short sleeve comp cag for years. It only sees the light of day when it warms up here in the UK. The cag is a short sleeved version of the Comp cag and shares all of its features with the exception of the obvious (long sleeves and latex cuff seals).
Thanks to the guys at Immersion Research I was hooked up with one of the brand new Immersion Research The Royale spray skirts.
Now I have have said this before but will say it again – for most of my paddling career (28yrs+) I have used Playboater decks and it has only been Immersion Research who have been able to tempt me away from the brand. At present I own a couple of IR skirts. The first is a rand based (more on that later) skirt the Special K and the bungee based Klingon Empire. The latter has been my go to deck for over a year – I love it!
Those of you who have followed the site for many years will know that I usually only ever use Playboater spraydecks. I have owned a few and they are always superb. When I initially tried my Immersion Research Klingon Empire Spraydeck I was simply blown away. But how is it 1 year on?
The Liquid Logic Big Wheel belongs to the same family as the Liquid Logic Scooter.
The old current kit topics on the forum were always popular, so I thought I’d give you all an update of my current kit.
Reader: Nicky Ball
Location: Classified
Picture from the Scottish Canoe Association
Boats:
After a few years of paddling Pyranha Everests, which I still to this day regard as the best all round boat as it’s the Burn just with added Oooosh, I made the switch to Liquid logic as I find them more fun and quirky than alot of other brands, in other words they have soul. I now paddle a Jefe Grande for steeper stuff as it boofs huge and a Remix 79 which I love because it’s so fast and is really at home on bigger volume, it’s great for being an idiot too when all you want to do is rock splat, rock spin and boof your way down stream. I also have recently been given an old Inazone 242 which I plan on doing some surfing in and I also share a topo/spud with my misses which I paddle if I’m in a silly mood.
Name: Callum Strong
Location: Scotland
Boats
I don’t know if you guys have heard but I am a Zet UK team Paddler and have a hoody which says so in big letters so people in the bar know I’m the real deal without me having to tell them, although I do anyway. As such I paddle a Zet Raptor, a totally sick creek boat which I was paddling even before they got cool. I suppose I am somewhat of a “trendsetter” so listen up to the rest of my kitlist folks, this will read like a kayaking version of Vogue. I should point out that my Raptor is yellow, the best colour and also the second fastest. The fastest Zets are actually blue ones. I paddled a blue one over the summer whilst on an expedition in Siberia but unfortunately they don’t show up nearly as well in photographs, so yellow is the colour to go for.
Name: Mark Mulrain
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Boats
Dragorossi 88 (big boat) – I wanted a boat that had the speed of a Zet Raptor and boofed a little easier like the Liquidlogic Stomper. The 88 seemed to do meet this criteria. I was blown away by how easily it punched water features and the speed it carried out from the bottom of a rapid. Continue reading
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