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Article: Slip Sliding Away.(Watermark Paddle Sports kayak design)
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- Product Design & Development
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- August 1, 2000
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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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... ... Medicine to offer a wilderness first-aid class with an emphasis on paddle sports. The course is ideal for anyone who plans to lead kayaking trips or canoeing trips, teach paddle sports at a camp, or spend time kayaking or canoeing in Maine. The ...
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