10 Sea Kayaks You Should Paddle Before You Buy
Published April 26, 2011 | 
Oh well, there’s Flo on my left and there’s Mary on my right / And Janie is the girl with that I’ll be with tonight
And when she asks me, which one I love the best? / I tear open my shirt I got Rosie on my chest
‘Cause I’m the wanderer / Yeah, the wanderer / I roam around, around, around – Dion
Sea kayaks are expensive. To be honest, reading alone won’t tell you what you need to know before you drop $3,000 or more on a top-of-the-line kayak. You have to paddle them to know how they feel to you. What’s more, how you feel in a particular kayak may be nothing like what someone else feels in that same boat. That means, no one can really tell you what the right kayak is for you. From there you can infer that what I’m about to tell you.. is worthless.. but read on if you like! Continue reading
Chicken & Egg
Published July 27, 2010 | 
My neighbor… wants what he sees
My neighbor!! My neighbor!!
My neighbor… thinks he wants to be me
But he’ll never be – gnarls barkley
When I recently wrote a quick overview of SeakayakingUK’s Romany, someone (who shall remain nameless to protect the innocent) shared with me the thought that the Romany was at least in part based the Shore Line kayak produced by another UK company called North Shore. North Shore was founded in 1982. According to informants, the Shore Line (Now the Atlantic LV) was in production pre-Romany. Continue reading
Posted in Kayaks, Paddling | 
aled williams, Atlantic LV, Mike Nelson, ndk, North Shore Sea Kayaks, romany, seakayakinguk, Shore Line, Valley Sea KayaksSea Kayaking UK (NDK) Romany. In Review.
Published July 7, 2010 | 
We can never know about the days to come
But we think about them anyway, yay
And I wonder if I’m really with you now
Or just chasin’ after some finer day
– carly simon
I’ve had the old white Romany for some time, but as I said it was not “my” boat so I rarely paddled it. In fact until recently the only time I paddled the Romany was when the local river was in flood. At those times I’d take the boat out to play in the currents and surf since I was not worried about banging it up. Now that I’ve repaired the hull and have it seaworthy again, I’ve been paddling it quite a bit which offers a great opportunity to share some fresh thoughts about the Romany in general. Continue reading
Posted in Kayaks, Paddling, Reviews | aled williams, ndk, Nigel Dennis, Reviews, rockpool, romany, seakayakinguk, TideraceNDK Appaloosa
Published June 10, 2009 | 
Here’s a one of a kind kayak. It’s an NDK Appaloosa. Well, no. It’s a Romany. A very old Romany that still says, “Designed by Nigel Dennis & Aled Williams. (Aled as you may know moved on to form Rockpool with Mike Webb and then moved on to form Tide Race Kayaks… Confused?) This poor Romany has been around the block a few times.. and under a tree at least once. You see, a tree fell on it. Crushed it. The story goes that one of the guys down at Rutabaga saw it sitting in a yard all busted up and offered to take it away. He put it back together. Much like the The Talosians from the Star Trek orignal series pilot he did the best he could but… Continue reading
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