Article: Slip Sliding Away.(Watermark Paddle Sports kayak design)

For kayak designers, a small boat is serious business. Here's a look at how one company is using modern techniques to perfect an age-old art.

With its whitewater rapids and tree-lined banks, the Ocoee River doesn't exactly look like a setting for industrial espionage. But when members of the design team at Perception Inc. field-test their prototype kayaks, they are not surprised to see the competition snapping pictures from the shore. That's because Perception's base in Easley, SC -- with its proximity to the Ocoee and Chattanooga rivers -- is to kayaks what Detroit is to automobiles.

Like auto makers road-testing next year's models, Perception has ...

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