Endless for big adventures

From the very start it has been our intention at DesignKayaks to build a narrow but focused kayak assortment where every kayak has a clearly defined target group. Our first kayak Unplugged has been designed to meet the need of beginners and recreational paddlers. Our second kayak Endless is made for paddlers who wants to take it further and where speed is important.

 

Both kayaks are designed by Søren Telling co-owner of DesignKayaks. He has more than 20 years of experience as kayak instructor and he has been leading week long kayak expeditions in some of the world’s most desolated areas.

 

The expeditions and countless multi-day trips are the solid foundation Søren brings in, but we have a strong believe that more brains think better than one. Therefore, we started the design process by inviting a group of highly experienced and very dedicated paddlers who love to go out on multi-day trips. This gave us a lot of good ideas and helped us define the overall principals for Endless.

 

Designing a kayak is always a compromises. If you make it faster it impacts stability, if you make it easier maneuverable it impacts tracking and so on and so on. Therefore, it is extremely important to clearly define what should this kayak do and who is it for?

 

With Endless we wanted to design a kayak perfect for multiday trips. To do this we have worked with the following 3 headlines:

1. Speed: It has been absolutely essential to create a fast kayak allowing the paddler to go far and fast.
2. Comfort: No matter if you go on multi-day trips or an intense one day paddle comfort is highly important.
3. Pack Volume: Endless has lots of space for gear and large oval hatches makes it easy to pack.

You can read all about the design choices and get the specifications of Endless on ‘the Endless page’ or read ‘the Endless review’ from the Norwegian paddle magazine paddlesiden.no