| - Designs - Frames - Our very special skin
- TUUKKAQ™
- SULULIK™
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- Our Frames We only use sustainably harvested materials, impregnated with linseed oil and finally treated with marine quality Carnauba wax. CapeFarewell™ Cape Farewell kayaks evolved for all year kayak hunting in some of the most extreme paddling conditions in the world, at the South-western tip of Greenland. The style here focuses on big seas and high winds rather than speed, as this is the only ice free region in winter. Our CapeFarewell™ is a full volume frame suited to longer trips, with good bow lift on windy and choppy days. With its typical Greenland style low profile it is well suited to playful paddling in demanding conditions. Merge it with our Avataq deck bags and you raise the profile to a full volume touring boat  EastGreenlander™ When the inhabitants of South
East Greenland migrated to the west of the Cape in the 1850's, they
brought an older style kayak with them, one which was primarily used
during the calm ice free months of the year. This was a fast, narrow
and low profile kayak that immediately influenced the Cape Farewell
kayaks
with its elegant sharpness. Nowadays, the
EastGreenlander™
is having a bit of a renaissance with paddlers around the world
favouring speed and playful character over volume for touring. We've
compromized a
little on narrowness, giving you 50 cm inside-width in the cockpit,
while keeping it light at approx. 14 kg with the BareBasics™
skin design. |
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The kayak frame
evolved for 4000 years - and it is meant to flex (if ever so gently).
To allow this, while still being super strong for the modern paddler,
we developed our very own high tech skin based on three different
fibres:
Cotton and Cordura on the surface and the world's strongest fibre at
the core - Dyneema® ("fourteen
times stronger than steel"*). We call the new
skin - SealSkin
AD2010™.
The
Dyneema
fibre
is
woven in a complete, tight weave, not only as
rip-stop. We finally protect the skin with our own KayakCoat™ silicone
with a complete saturation before adding extra layers inside and out.
The result is a UV protected, super strong skin that resists all common
oils and
organic matters you can expect in a marine environment. Do hit the link
to Dyneema's site and learn about
this incredibly strong fibre. Our BareBasics™ skin layout is just that, nothing beyond the bare necessity. A small roll-down hatch fore and aft, the Sululik™ cockpit hatch, basic toggles, deck lines aft and a tie-in. No graphics, no decoration, white only. You can however, customize at will, our distributors have the details! *Dyneema compared with quality steel, gram pr. gram, further information here. |
