I think most of us have all the safety equipment they could require us to use anyway, i sent an email to better boating or some organization similar pertaing to these stores sell kayaks that are potentially unsafe, outlining that they really should only be sold in a store that sells watercrafts eg: SLH, AWS and other marine shops, but it seemed to fall on deaf ears

4liters wrote:Haha and on cue someone is bragging about picking up a couple of those anaconda Berkeley yaks for $100 each because the weight rating was inaccurate and it should only be rated to 90kg or something.

And someone accused you of being jealous just because you try to point out the obvious..

From time to time I try give some tips & occasionally someone has a go at me but generally I’m so over it.
It’s like trying to shovel manure up a steep hill

Yako wrote:From time to time I try give some tips & occasionally someone has a go at me but generally I’m so over it.
It’s like trying to shovel manure up a steep hill

Yep Been there done that. These days I limit myself to pointing the enquirer to here and hope that at least some of them will see the light.