Device to enable easy entry and exit from a VKV Kayak
Vitudden's Kanotvarv
VKV NEWS 2009
VKV Easy Kayak Enter
Device to assist in entering and exiting a kayak
Many people like to go kayaking, but many of the older and some of the younger, do not take the step into the kayaking world because they feel it is very difficult to get in and even more difficult to get out of the kayak.
To be honest, can you from sitting position on the floor get up without using your hands and arms to raise your body?
When you sit in a kayak it is the same. By grabbing the front part of the cockpit frame, you get some assistance in raising the body and transfering the weight to the feet , but it takes some training to master it.
If a handle was available at shoulder height instead of the cockpit frame, it would be much easier to raise or lower the body into the kayak.
This was the starting point when we developed the "VKV Easy Kayak Enter". It is simply a strong fiber glass tube that is anchored to the bottom of the kayak and at the center part of the cockpit frame.
Entering and exiting from the kayak is amazingly simple when using this device. You also have better control of the kayak in relation to the dock.
If you at the same time mount our VKV Stabilizers, then you are free to use booth arms to move your body. All of a sudden you have changed a standard kayak to become usable by handicapped people.
We feel the "VKV Easy Kayak Enter" is such an important safety device that we have decided not seek any patent. With the "SMART TUBE" concept and the possibility to be used globally it will enable previously reluctant users to enter into to the sport of kayaking.
We can at the current time offer the "VKV Easy Kayak Enter" for all our VKV and Seabird Kayaks equipped with the
VKV LD-type rudder controls using "Full size" foot pedals.