Yahoo!

My lady and I are novice paddlers and were trying out kayaks for the first time and one of the ones we got was the Yahoo and the other was the Caper. The Caper was fun and easy to paddle in but the Yahoo was a bear to go anywhere. This boat is not for the beginner or anyone wanting to just paddle for fun.

agree with all the other reviews -- a great boat for beginners and even those with a bit more experience -- I recently bought one a 2nd time after having sold my old one, because when you're at the coast in NC you can't do any better than to have this very fun, very forgiving boat to play in the waves with... my nephew got in his first time and was surfing waves and side-surfing [sometimes unintentionally!] in 20 minutes, with only a few wipeouts in 3 to 4 ft surf -- and wipe-outs are half the fun anyway! just remember to keep clear of others at crowded beaches [common sense] who think the big yellow banana boat i'm paddling is soft and fluffy -- it's not!

Yahoo!! A great boat ,used for my first on the middle fork of the american and it could do no wrong.It's stable forgiving and very manueverable.I'm going to buy a second one for my wife!

This kayak is a sit-on-top polyethylene white water kayak. If you are new to white water and don't want a closed deck kayak this is the kayak for you. It is much faster than an inflatable kayak, but slower than a closed deck kayak. At 30" wide it is very stable. However don't under estimate the river. If you turn it sidewards after a drop you can still dig in a rail and go over. Ocean Kayak uses what they call a knee tree to keep you in the kayak. I think that thigh straps would have been a better idea. The idea of the knee tree between your legs when you are thrown from the kayak is kinda scary. However, to date no one has ever been injured in any of our yahoos. If you run our river in one of our inflatable kayaks, you will hit a couple of hundred rocks by the time you hit the pick up area. The same river in a Yahoo, you hit half a dozen rocks. The big difference is the inflatable kayaks hit a rock and just keep going. When the Yahoos hit a rock, you go flying but that is all part of the fun.