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I just came back from a solo expedition in the Amazon forest , 1400 KM of paddling on the Rio Negro and the Amazon river. The kayak performed perfectly on white water and flat water, I average 8KM/H with a 50 KG load of gears. After this expedition the kayak had some very light scratch but nothing serious, the security valves did their job and even with temperature reaching over 100 degree far there was no problem.The skirt did very well and even after days and night of heavy rain the kayak was dry .

I recently become the new owner of a Neris Smart Pro Kayak; I will be using this inflatable kayak for my next Adventure in the Amazon river. I normally use an Ally canoe and loved every thing about it except when its very windy and unfortunately there is no way to be safe with it in coastal travel. My last canoe trip was from Vegas to the Mexican border on the Colorado river.

I didn’t want to write a review before I could test it long enough to know what I was talking about .

The material look like very good quality and the inner alloy frame is very easy to mount, in fact you can built the kayak in 15 mn without breaking a sweat. The kayak came into a large backpack, everything you need fit in it, this includes in my case the ruder and skirt too. The total weight was 25 KG.

Now after over 100 miles with it I am even more satisfied with the kayak, great stability and tracking and even with 15 miles/H wind the boat was not dancing in front of me (even without using the rudder. I did few 20 miles/day without fatigue thanks to the good inflatable seat. The adverse weather condition stopped me to try rolling it or doing a self-rescue but with the inflated side it should not be any problem to get back inside.

I also did some try out fully loaded with 2 cone bags (Neris) and a 110 L ortlieb duffle, totaling about 60 kg of gears and still no stability or tracking issue. Most of my kayaking was done on the lake Provo, Jordan river and Provo river in Utah.

If you have any question asked me and if you want to look at it, I am in Lehi Utah.