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Epiphany's Christmas Present is an Inflatable Kayak
4 January 2025 · 4 min · 176 views · Morgan's Bluff, Abaco Island
What this video covers
A two-person inflatable kayak, purchased on Amazon and stored aboard the C&C Yachts 39 Epiphany since before Christmas, gets its first paddle at Morgan's Bluff, Abaco Island.Watch The kayak runs about 13 feet long and nearly 4 feet wide; the package includes a high-volume hand pump, two five-piece snap-together paddles, two inflatable seats, and a skeg.1:28 Setup from the bag to water takes only a few minutes.2:21 The motivation is practical: the anchorage is 150–200 yards from shore, too short a distance to justify launching the dinghy.Watch Gordon and the narrator paddle the calm harbor, inspecting hurricane wreckage along the docks — a sunken mail boat ramp, an old tugboat on the bottom, and a second mail boat called Yocumico half-beached after a storm, all with water clear enough to see the wrecks from the kayak's surface.3:18 The skeg and wide beam keep the inflatable stable in flat water. The takeaway is that a cheap inflatable kayak handles short, calm-harbor excursions well enough to make dinghy deployment unnecessary for quick shore runs.
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