Sevylor QuickPak K5 24 Gauge PVC Polyester 1 Person Inflatable Kayak w/Hand Pump, Paddle, Double Lock Valves and Easy To Carry Backpack System, Gray

The Quickpak K5 is a great single person inflatable Kayak that can actually be carried long distances and should be a firm 5 Stars. I've had it on lakes and in the sea, in sunshine wind and rain and it handles really well. But... there is no support for this in the UK. I now have a problem with one of the main bladder valves that will need the bladder replacing and I can't seem to get spares anywhere. I've tried the Europe and the UK distributor and tried to make contact with Coleman in the US, but no-one seems able to help. Another problem is the connectors for the 3 piece paddles. They aren't really up to the job and I have had two snap on me. You can find replacements on amazon, but unfortunately these are not as strong as the originals. Better to buy a good two-piece. Amazon (who sells the product itself) also doesn't seem to have a mechanism to help people in my position either, just 6 months after the sale. If you choose to buy one, they are amazing fun and very capable, but don't expect to be able to get any spares, So if you have a catastrophic failure you could be out of action for a long time, or not recover it at all, unless Amazon starts importing the spares.

en general es muy buen kayak, se comporta agil y estable, la lona exterior lo proteje bastante, el remo me parece su unico punto devil, no trae tope de agua y el sistema de ensamble no me parece practico, si lo recomiendo y lo compraria de nuevo.

This is a spectacular purchase. Strong, durable materials, the covering fabric is tough and slick aesthetically as well. It exceeded my expectation for comfort. I'm 6'0/175 and its very comfortable. I don't know why people are crying about the paddle, I find it very durable and super light, which works well for the portability of this product. I can see why people are a bit uneasy though. It comes in one easy box. The hand pump is very effective and its ready to go in a few minutes. My only critique is that there should be an excitment warning: don't sit in it when you first blow it up, cause it bends the bottom fin (which I had to put a weight on for an hour to bend back). But your instinct is to hop right in after you turn the backpack into your seat!

La base de la a bomba de aire venia rota. Los remos de baja calidad.

Review update 7-6-2022 All the same statements I made previously still stand with the exception that I cannot recommend the purchase of this kayak based on Sevylor/Coleman's customer service. On my second use of the product one of the plastic buckles that secures the seat and provides seat adjustment broke. Since the buckle was sewn into the strap, it could not be easily replaced. I contacted customer service to see what could be done. The response basically said that they had no replacement parts for this product and sorry, you're out of luck. Nothing whatsoever was offered to keep a happy customer. Partial refund, credit to other products, nothing... Long story short, I was able to engineer a better than new solution (with no sewing) that took about an hour and $25.00 USD. So like I said, all the information I provided below is still valid, but customer service has caused me to withdraw my recommendation of the product. Buy it only if you're handy with fixing things. Oh, and additionally when I tried to contact customer service a 2nd time (after their response), their mail box was full and couldn't accept more emails. I tried 3 more time to contact them with the same result. I live I the Sacramento, CA area and we have a lot of places to play on the water. I have wanted to get out on the water for years and finally got more serious about finding something to help me do that. I've been out in this kayak multiple times now on the flat water of a reservoir and have had a blast every time. Bottom-line, I would recommend this kayak for beginners (which I am), good price, convenience of storage, portability and reasonably durable quality. Now for the pros and cons: Pros: -Very portable, folds up easily and stores in its own backpack -Sturdy feel, the inflation chambers live inside a fabric (top) and heavy weight plastic (hull) shell -Nice size cockpit (although I wouldn't recommend for folks bigger and taller than me (5"7", 175 lbs) -Generous zippered storage behind cockpit/seat -Zip in splash and chill guard so you can have a closed cockpit or open cockpit -Light weight (a little over 30 lbs.) but seems durable -Quick to inflate with included pump (unload from car to ready for the water in less than 10 minutes -VERY comfortable, soft on the tush Cons: -Plastic "D" rings. Two of mine broke right away. Replaced them with Stainless S-Biners and now no issue -Plastic buckles for seat adjustment. One of mine broke the first time I tried to adjust the seat. And unfortunately its a sewn on buckle so I'm not even sure how to replace without a big production. I'm in contact with the manufacturer now to see if they have a solution. -Slow in the water (which seems to be a common issue with less expensive inflatables) -Non-removable skeg which means it folds to the hull when you put it in the backpack and doesn't ever hang completely straight. I do think it affects the kayak's ability to track. -The included oar is terrible due to the placement of the tightening mechanisms. It is difficult to find a hand position that is comfortable and avoids blisters. Bought another paddle almost right away. All in all if you want reasonable quality at a bargain price and you don't know if kayaking is for you, this kayak might be a good starter..

My experience hasn't lined up much with many of the reviews that ultimately swayed me to purchase this little kayak. In my mind I thought I would be taking a big step up from my Intex Challenger K1 which, while a quite fun and easy to use bargain, never seemed like much more than the most entry-level of inflatable kayaks. Unfortunately, I found most all of the practical aspects of this boat to be inferior to the Intex, which at 1/4 of the price is a steal. I took this boat out twice, once for a 3 hour calm lake paddle, and then the next day for a 6 hour lazy river float with a couple of class I-II rapids. I had taken the exact same river float in the Intex K1 a month prior. First off, this boat really, really wedges you into a confined seating position with zero leg room, one that I could never get entirely comfortable with. Even after inflating & deflating three times, completely taking the bladder out and making sure it was precisely aligned within the tarpaulin outer shell, trying many different seating alignments, pumping it up yet again trying two different inflation sequences (which I thought was important, because the manual blatantly contradicts itself about this within the first five pages)--this thing is just not fun to be in. I'm 5' 9' with a 30 inch inseam-- not exactly giant material, and much more average than some of these 6 ft + tall people claiming it's practically a lazy-boy. I found the Intex to be much more open and accommodating, especially on the long river float. I could see a 6 footer in the Intex, but I wouldn't recommend more than 5' 6' or 5' 7' in the Quikpak. I swear this is not an Intex plug, just my objective comparison of the two, perhaps slightly colored by my overriding feeling of disappointment with the Coleman Quikpak. My next issue is the tracking on this boat was atrocious. The non-detachable rubber skeg molded onto the taurpaulin outer shell was very lopsided out of the box, and many attempts to right it never met with lasting success, as the pliable rubber always seemed to come to rest ultimately askew. Even with careful packing in its backpack, the way the skeg is designed it seems like this would be a recurrent problem. The hard plastic skeg on the Intex is detachable, and so is always perfectly straight when installed. In the Quikpak I couldn't even float for 5 seconds without veering sharply or turning circles. This made casual coasting, sipping a beverage, wildlife/bird watching, or trying to take a picture frustrating--and again, just not that fun. Then there's the seat. It is super thin with very little support, and the bright neon green color seems primed to show contrasty mud and other stains almost immediately. Since the seat is also the backpack this seems like a poor choice. I couldn't make it more than an hour in this seat without lots of fiddling around and repositioning, and then still being uncomfortable. The very simple if slightly PITA inflatable seat of the Intex was definitely more comfortable, especially for the longer float. And then there's the outfitting. This is where I found the pictures to be somewhat misleading, as I think the bungees and D-rings on the zip-on spray skirt are purely for show. The skirt decking has no tautness or inflated structure at all, such that anything at all you put on top of the kayak droops down and essentially sits right down in your lap. I wouldn't want to keep much of anything on it, certainly not a small cooler or anything above a single small pair of binoculars or a waterproof cellphone. You combine that worthlessness with the claustrophobia wedge that the skirt really, really traps you into, and I soon found myself keeping it uninstalled and shoved between the bladder and the outer shell. And if it's at all hot and sunny, as it was on both days I went out (low 90s), then forget about it--insta-sweaty leg/crotch city right there. Okay, this screed is too long already, so I'll just jump to the last salient issue that annoyed the crap out of me: the 2 part bladder/taurpaulin shell design is a real SOB to deal with. Think long and hard about how important this level of portability/ease of storage really is to you, because you're going to spend a whole lot of time post-use drying and wiping this thing out. And if you do it right you're basically doing it twice: taking the inner bladder out and totally reinflating it so you can wipe it out and leave it in the sun to dry out for a day, and then separately dumping the water out of and wiping out the outer shell before you find another large area in the sun to dry it for a day. If you don't do this every time you use the boat it will mildew inside. And then after that day in the sun, you're still not done. You then have to reinsert the bladder and make sure it is properly aligned, which isn't a 30 second job, and then after that fold everything perfectly enough that the whole package fits in its little backpack. For me this kinda zaps the fun out of using the Quikpak, and I think it would dissuade me from using it as frequently as I had hoped. All of this negative critique aside, with the complete exception of the paddle (POS) the quality of the materials at least seemed to be pretty high. The outer shell seemed sturdy and the canvas top is definitely a step up from the Intex. And the whole backpack idea is pretty cool. If you are an exceedingly patient women or petite man of below average height for whom easy storage and transport are paramount and you have no qualms about maintaining a high paddle cadence to compensate for dismal tracking--I could maybe recommend this boat to you. What I would probably do instead is recommend you take your money and sit on it until you have enough to buy a used one-piece hardshell or a modular hardshell if you absolutely have to keep it small. I've returned this boat.