Back Bay Scorpion Sit-On-Top Sailing Kayak
A modular approach to SOT kayak sailing and paddling
Sit-On-Top (SOT) kayaks are easy boats on which to learn to paddle. They have none of the “get inside the coffin and drown” psychological identity that one finds in the Sit-Inside boats and they’re amazingly adaptable to a wide range of paddling activities. It also doesn’t hurt that they are pretty straightforward boats to rotomold, which makes them very cheap to produce in large numbers.
I didn’t envision just one boat for this niche in the home-built kayak market. Instead, it came to me that there would need to be at least three models that could address the wide-ranging styles of boating interests in this area of the kayak world. The result was a couple of very clean, SOT models at 14’ and 16’ called the Corona and the Back Bay. The third model was going to be called the Wahoo, as it was specifically designed for the folks who spend a lot of time fishing with their SOT’s. I’ll get to the Wahoo in the next article for Duckworks.
Posted: July 4th, 2008 under Kayaks, Sit On Top Kayaks.
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