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Other: Outdoor Retailer Show
By:scottbaxter
Date: 8/7/2011, 9:27 pm

The show was dominated by stand up paddle boards this year, it was hard to find a kayak in the middle of all of them. Current Designs had a few tweeks to their boats. A Norwy company was there called Sea Bird. They had some very well built well designed boats. They had a few Bjorn Thomasson greenland designs including the Black Pearl and Sea Pearl that were very nice. Bjorn has been selling plans to home builders for years, I think these are the only boat designs he has that are manufactured. If you want to see some nice boats check out his web page http://www.thomassondesign.com/catalog/my-kayaks Another boat I liked from Sea Bird was the H20 a very fast touring boat. Their prices were right and their craftsmanship was good. They seem to build a little more on the strong and heavy side than the light side. They use a lot of kevlar and carbon so their boats are still lighter than a typical glass boat. This is a link to their website if you ware interested. http://www.seabirddesigns.com.cn/kayaks.html
Other than that I didn't see much to talk about, plastic dominates, SUP's really dominate.