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Originally Posted by Cal
... To every kayaker I know( and I realize I don't know them all) it is nothing more that a toy...a little boat to play in...splash around in the surf when you're not coordinated enough to stand on a surf board or take a 10 or 15 minute ride on the bay. . . . I can't , for the life of me , see why someone would want to cross the broads in a kayak , no more than I would take my boat 40 miles out to sea. Yeah , I probably could and get away with it , but it's not worth the risk.
And the point remains , it's still a tiny little boat.
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And I can't understand why anyone wants to go faster than 45 mph in a boat on a lake.
You obviously don't know any sea kayakers. No sea kayaker considers their expensive sea kayak to be a toy!
A sea kayak is made for large bodies of water, so crossing the broads in one is not really all that difficult or even a risk (if you know what you are doing - are with at least one other sea kayaker, and have the proper equipment - Oh ... and assuming that there are not a lot of high speed powerboats out there.)
Sea kayaks are not exactly tiny - mine is 16 feet long, which is short for a sea kayak (many are 18 to 24 feet long). Just to give you a better idea of what I'm talking about, here's a photo of a sea kayak (which is much like mine - only my kayak has a red deck). This one is happens to be on the ocean: