Janko in a Jar

Me and my wife had a hard-shell canoe once, we drove it on few lakes and rivers around Slovenia. It was nice, amongst other things my sister and her b-f discovered the Bohinj monster in it and the legend now passes to younger generations.

Then 3 guys, drunk, took it to for the ride on Sava damn at HE Breg (near Sevnica) without asking anyone. They lost balance in the middle of the dam, fell in and almost drowned. The canoe sunk and was never found again.

Now I decided not to take my whitewater kayak with us on a Switzerland trip, but we bought an inflatable mini raft/canoe from Gumotex (Sunny) to deliver ourselves some family friendly adventures on lakes, seas and rivers in the future. While the hard-shell canoe was huge to put on a car and a project to get with it anywhere this thing is even more durable, doesn’t sink, weights just 16kg and I can pack it into just a special backpack. It can also totally accomodate to paddling in solo or duo.

Image is from this page, good info about IK-s

Can’t wait to try it on a water… Although ultra practical I still have some prejudice about inflatable stuff on water.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 2:43 pm and is filed under Other stuff.