Your yak, what cheeses you off?

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Bryce
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Re: Your yak, what cheeses you off?

Post by Bryce »

Babylon wrote:Dont get it out enough. :wave1:
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Re: Your yak, what cheeses you off?

Post by Tomcat »

the seat. i hate the way kayak seat are made. they are not made for comfort. especially for someone that is tall with a bad back.
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Post by squidgyflicker »

couldn't fish in the timber at eildon when i go there to fish at times and the bare adventure doesn't have the turning circle to give chase once hooked to a big green beasty so i sold it to humey and will rectify the situation post haste....as in tomorrow morning.....was perfect for the bay though other than the wet butt, having said that there's no tree's out there....lol
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Re: Your yak, what cheeses you off?

Post by laneends »

squidgyflicker wrote:couldn't fish in the timber at eildon when i go there to fish at times and the bare adventure doesn't have the turning circle to give chase once hooked to a big green beasty so i sold it to humey and will rectify the situation post haste....as in tomorrow morning.....was perfect for the bay though other than the wet butt, having said that there's no tree's out there....lol
The timber is excellent for my old cheapy ebay yak with no tracking and ability to spin on a dime
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Re: Your yak, what cheeses you off?

Post by RayS »

Love the new Kingy, but totally cheesed off with the way the retailer installed one of the rod holders. No sooner got on the water yesterday morning than the right hand side holder simply fell off :o ,taking my drunken monkey/Freams set up with it. Fortunately I was just mounting the yak so was only a couple of feet of water and got it all back. Closer inspection and found that the star port had only been held in place by maybe two turns of each mounting screw. And weight of the (extremely light) out fit was enough to put it over the side :x

Not happy Jan!!! :x :x
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Deefa
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Re: Your yak, what cheeses you off?

Post by Deefa »

Eco Ambush clone:

Little freeboard. (Although powering into chop, at least you go through it without stopping, but the water you take on doesn't shed anywhere except in the cockpit)
One scupper hole in cockpit.
Weight for size.
Lack of on-water accessible storage.
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Re: Your yak, what cheeses you off?

Post by cbarker54 »

Jenko wrote:
cbarker54 wrote:X3 on the cart. Also my handle for the rudder controller keeps coming off. Must have happened to me 4 or 5 times on the water
Try a drop of locktight on the screw Chris, Sally's outback handle was loose from the factory and so was the Oasis when we bought that new too.
Thanks mate will do :thumbsup:
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Luckyphil
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Re: Your yak, what cheeses you off?

Post by Luckyphil »

Heritage Redfish 14.
First up it is a truly awesome yak, but like most yaks has a few niggles. There is only 1 access port into the hull which would limit the amount of gear you can put in the hull. The rear well gets pretty wet despite having 4 drain holes. Doesnt track that well running with any sort of chop or waves. Seat is not great, but most of them are pretty ordinary, self inflating Seak seat cushion helped a lot.
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Re: Your yak, what cheeses you off?

Post by MrTall »

I have 2 mini x yaks ( one is the wifes). They are fantastic little yaks for skinny water and in close on the bays with heaps of storage, plenty of stability, and light to load/unload.
The only problem is that they are little yaks that take alot of effort to paddle distances and they catch alot of wind.
But it is not an offshore yak and inshore it does its job better than almost all yaks its size.
Just means I need to get a offshore yak to compliment it. :evilgrin:
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Re: Your yak, what cheeses you off?

Post by Robbo1994 »

biggest problem with mine is that it deters fish!
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