Solo Touring Inflatable Kayaks

Solo Touring Inflatable Kayak Details

A couple years back we split off the solo touring inflatable kayaks from the tandems. When they were all lumped together it made for a rather large web page, so the two-person models are shown separately. Most of those tandems can be used solo as well, but they tend to be longer. Note that the Sawtooth I (which is really the length of a normal tandem) does appear in both sections, here with one seat and in the tandem section with two seats at a slightly higher cost.

What is a "touring" inflatable? This means that the boats in this section of our site are made primarily - or solely - to be used in ocean, bay, and flat water environments, with an emphasis on hull speed rather than the level of stability that is required for a whitewater model. Whitewater means rivers and rapids, not whitecaps!

You may notice that most of what follows is from Innova, with only one AIRE and one NRS kayak to break the monotony. The simple reason for this is that no other company makes the variety of high performance solo & tandem touring models as Innova, or at least not a line that tend to be less than $900. Grabner Inflatables in Austria does have very fine touring kayaks, but the pricing of those boats (mostly well over $2,000, a few above $3,000 depending on exchange rates) makes them hard to market.

There isn't a lot new below, though we added one NRS kayak that is more of a fishing model than a "touring" boat, but this section seems the most appropriate spot ot put it. Note that there is a new sprayskirt available for the solo and tandem Innova Swings, and that item is found on our Kayak Accessory page.

If you go to the intro for the Tandem Touring inflatable kayak there is more information about basic selection and criterion for choosing your inflatable, but we didn't want to duplicate it here for the time being. As always, call us at 925-820-2628 with any questions, or email us at theboatpeople@hotmail.com. Our "info@" email address has had mis-routing issues at the server level, so it may be better to use the hotmail address to ensure your questions get to us in a timely manner.

Good news for 2013 is that the Innova's below, once again, have stayed at mostly the same prices - and they represent excellent values too.