This is an excellent beginner boat with room to grow and will suit my needs just fine. The boat included a nice light weight paddle and spray skirt, and a trolley, all of which I used and were good accessories to have. A little on the heavy side, but I'll trade weight for durability.

It also felt a bit quicker than the folks I paddled with who were using sit-on-top kayaks. It tracked really well, was extremely stable and held all my gear without trouble. I paddled a lot while in Tahoe for the week including one 14 mile trip in a pretty choppy lake. I liked the Loon for its large cockpit opening and wide design. After trying several sit-on-top kayaks and one sit-in ocean kayak on a various vacations, I decided I much preferred the sit in variety. I'm not exactly sure on the year, but my guess is 10 years old. We put another 30L dry bag (used for first aid supplies) on top under the bungee cords (I replaced the original cord).īought a well used Loon 138 a few weeks back for an upcoming trip to Lake Tahoe in northern California. We wouldn’t be able to store two large dry bags if it had bulkheads and hatches. (The Loon’s seat slides forward and back to center your weight in the kayak. By folding down the seat, we have room to slide a 30L dry bag in the stern and a 55L bag in the bow. I especially like the large storage capacity (due to the lack of bulkheads & hatches) for multi-day camping trips. I agree with all other reviews (durable, tracks well, good speed, large cockpit, heavy, and you need to add a seat cushion). Everyone that tried this during our last 2 trips to Arkansas loved it. They couldn’t keep up with our canoes and didn’t have much storage space. (Bought on CL in Dallas for $400 with paddle in early was garaged and only used a dozen times.) My other kayaks were 10’ and one was a sit-on-top style. It is my 3rd kayak, and I like it the best. Would work great for duck hunting though my family mostly uses it for the one with a smaller child that want to ride in the back or where the big gear goes for trips. I believe that at the time that these were manufactured it was refered to as the predator. One of my Loons has the extended opening (it's not quite long enough to be a tandem).

I also own a couple Perception Swifty 9.5's with which I take my kids and grandkids on afternoon trips - everyone speaks for the Loons 1st - just more comfortable and secure. I getting up in years and prefer a stabile boat where I can negotiate class 1 and 2 rapids and these boats fit the bill perfectly. I was able to sand the surface, epoxy polester faber to the area under the seat and paint the area (haven't seen anything of the cracks in the 5 years since). Have only had do to one major repair on one of them when my daughter got on of the boats caught in a rock crevice where the water just knocked iy up and down to where cracks appered on the bottom on the interior layer (it's made from a composite). They have served me very well - got a lot of scars but just keep on kicking. They are pretty heavy and I would not want to drag them too far (they do have a rubber wear strip on the keel for dragging). I get them out from under the house a few times a year (always kept in the shade to protect from UV). I have 3 of these boats that I bought used 10+ years ago.

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