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Are you looking for the ideal gift for the canoeist or kayaker in your life? Not sure what to get them? Make life easier on yourself with a Kari-Tek gift voucher, so they can choose for themselves. Buy your gift vouchers online.
Save money with Kari-Tek’s Sea Kayak Sale - 10% off our stock SKUK sea kayaks and nearly £400 savings on selected P&H composite Capella 167s. Plus we're updating our huge demo fleet so there are are great prices on a selection of ex demo kayaks. All sale kayaks are available for immediate collection.
The Sale is strictly while stocks last, so hurry over to the Sale page for full details!
Karitek are delighted to now be European distributor for Flat Earth Sails from Australia. Flat Earth sails are shaped, battened sails specially designed by professional sailmakers for sea kayaks.
The result is a lightweight, responsive sail that is a joy to use and will change the way you think about sea kayak sailing. It’s robust, simple to deploy or store and doesn’t get in the way of your paddling. The kit comes with easy-to-follow fitting instructions and you can transfer the sail between kayaks.
Flat Earth Sails have been extensively tested in Scottish waters by well-known kayaker Douglas Wilcox. He says “Mick’s design is absolutely stunning. It’s a proper sail, made by an expert sailmaker. I have literally been blown away by these sails.” Read Douglas’ product review at seakayakphoto.blogspot.com.
The sails will be in our online shop shortly. Before then, you can take a look at the new sails in our Ayrshire shop or try them for yourselves at our demo days.
We're proud to announce the arrival of two new names at Kari-Tek. The P&H Delphin and the Rockpool Taran are both now available in our demo fleet.
The Delphin (see image left) turns traditional sea kayak design on its head with the cockpit moved backwards and the stern squared off so the bow just kisses the water., making for a super manoeuverable boat that still tracks well.
The Taran is an innovative and ground breaking super fast touring kayak, designed to break records. It has already taken 2 hours off the best time for an Isle of Man circumnavigation.
You can take a look at the new arrivals in our Ayrshire shop or try them for yourselves at our demo days.
We've a new range of T shirts in stock this summer specially designed for kayakers and canoeists by Ayrshire company Fresh Fish Clothing. With fun designs and a range of colours, these good quality tee shirts come at a good price - from £15 +pp. We took them to the Anglesey Symposium in May and they went down a storm! Perfect for wearing off the water with eye-catching designs for sea paddlers, whitewater enthusiasts and open canoeists alike. Available in our Ayrshire shop.
Ideal for outdoor centres, the latest addition to our range of trailers is the new Easy Switch Trailer system. The system is designed to save you time, hassle and money, allowing a single trailer chassis to be switched quickly and easily between any of a range of cost-effective, free-standing load racks for boats - white water kayaks, sea kayaks or Canadian open canoes - or bikes. Read more about this great new trailer from Kari-Tek here>
Spotted at the this year's Anglesey symposium, this rustic timber roof rack is most definitely NOT Kari-Tek's latest innovation!
Made entirely from bits of tree, this roof rack is installed on an elderly campervan and suits its owner just fine.
There's room for us all to find our own solutions to life's little problems, but , of course, if you want a roof rack with perhaps a little less rustic charm but a little more modern usability, then head over to our Easy Load Roof Rack page!
Read more Kari-Tek's roof racks here>
2010 will see an exciting new development in sea kayaks. For the first time, you will be able to buy a British designed sea kayak made from the revolutionary Carbonlite2000 material.
Rockpool's popular, high performance, touring sea kayak the Alaw Bach is now available in Carbonlite. This amazing material is perfect for sea kayaks, bringing all the advantages of fibreglass at a significant price saving.
Carbonlite has the same glossy look and feel as fibreglass, and gives the same excellent performance on the water. It's extremely tough, yet, like fibreglass, it can be repaired easily and scratches are readily polished out. Weight wise, there is little difference between the Carbonlite Alaw Bach and its fibreglass sister. There's more on this new material below.
As Scottish agent for Rockpool, Kari-Tek are delighted to be taking orders now for this exciting new development. The Carbonlite Alaw Bach will be available with deck in one of 4 colours or white, all with a white hull. Price is from £1850 (collected from our Ayrshire base), delivery expected Feb 2010 - in perfect time for next year's paddling season!
The Carbonlite Alaw Bachs will be in-store from Saturday 17 April. Stocks from this first batch are strictly limited - come along to our Ayrshire showroom to take a look!
Carbonlite 2000 is proprietary to US company Eddyline Kayaks, who have been using it for their own designs since 1996; they still hear from original customers who remain delighted with their boats. February 2010 sees the arrival of Rockpool's Alaw Bach in Carbonlite, the first British designed boat to take advantage of this great material.
Carbonlite 2000 is an example of thermo-composite construction or TCC. The material starts off with a polymer resin, just like both fibreglass and polyethylene. In the case of Carbonlite 2000, the resin comes in pellet form. The pellets are loaded into hoppers and, through heat and pressure, are extruded into uniform sheets, which are then moulded to form the kayak. The secret to success is in the mix of resins to make a composite material which has just the right properties.
Eddyline take pride in manufacturing in an environmentally responsible way: a Carbonlite kayak is 100% recyclable and all scrap material is recycled, generating virtually no waste.
Following our recent move to our great new premises, we've now opened a larger display of our great range of kayaks.
Our new display does justice to what is the widest range of composite sea kayaks in the west of Scotland including Explorer and Romany sea kayaks from Nigel Dennis' SKUK, Rockpool sea kayaks and Eddyline kayaks. We're also now stocking a range of recreational and open boats by Necky, Ocean and Old Town.
Come and see for yourself at our Ayrshire showroom!