Inflatable Kayaks

[Cataboo]

Both are whitewater boats - which I don't think you'd want at blackwater. You could use a whitewater boat on the monocacy & you'd probably be okay because there's a bit of a current. The latter boat (prijon one) would be more suited as a river runner, so it might be okay on the monocacy, but they're asking an awful lot for what I think is an old boat.

I've got my whitewater boat & my touring kayak up here, so we could try 'em both on the monocacy if you want some evening this week (providing it's not too flooded) - I'm debating selling the whitewater boat, so brought it over here to try to see how frustrating it would be or not as a boat to use around here. We can switch back & forth on boats - one of us'll be frustrated, I think.

I had some friends with inflatable kayaks that were orange & they bought them at REI & they loved them. We did paddle with 'em once on some river in delaware that emptied out into the beach/ocean... They were all fine paddling on the river, but got seat sick in the waves when we got out into the ocean, so they went back in.

Other boats to look into - the foldable boats, they can be expensive, but there's a website on how to make your own if you're feeling creative - I could help you with some of it 'cause I've been meaning to make one one of these days.

[Kalidurga]

My dad's got an inflatable (never used) that he's thinking of selling, if you want to pay for shipping from Florida. I'll have to see if I can get his Craiglist link.

[Zen]

Or I could wait for you to visit him

Other boats to look into - the foldable boats, they can be expensive, but there's a website on how to make your own if you're feeling creative - I could help you with some of it 'cause I've been meaning to make one one of these days.

Is there duct tape involved? I'm envisioning all sorts of monstrosities there

[Kalidurga]

You'd be waiting until September, when they come up here for Labor Day.

I think this is it: Inflatable Kayak - Stearns - $220 (Punta Gorda)

[Cataboo]

Here's an inflatable on craigslist:
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/n...227708900.html

making boats:
http://yostwerks.com/

No duct tape involved unless you wanna... Somewhere there's this pretty hilarious link about a math graduate student who was building his own foldable boat and after building his frame, was super excited & wanted to try it out before getting the skin put on it - so he wrapped the frame with saran wrap & went off to the river to try the boat out.

[Cataboo]

how long is the mothership? Can you fold down the seats? Julie manages to stick that sit on top of hers into her husband's honda element - folds down the passenger side seats and it just slides in. I think that kayak is like 10-12 foot long or something, I took her over to appotomatox river company (paddleva.com) once & she picked it 'cause it fit in that car... I don't think it was more than like $300-400 new. Appotomatox river company sometimes has great prices on boats, although it's a haul getting down there from up here.

[Zen]

I could stick it out the sunroof.