Necky Vibe Surf/playboat Kayak

This is a Necky Vibe surf/playboat. Always stored upright to avoid any flattening of the hull. No dents, deep scratches or welds (boat is completely watertight). Very light so great for really throwing around - would make a great first playboat for someone or an exceptional surf boat for a more advanced paddler. Mostly been used as the Washburn, Tees Barrage or East Coast surfing.

Updated backrest and also has fixed thigh hooks, central and rear foam. Collection in person or happy to deliver in the Leeds, York, Wakefield areas or meet a buyer from further a field. For reference I am 5'11, 13 stone and size 11 feet. Description:Necky Vibe playboat A competition-winning, uncompromising design with very pronounced rails that yield awesome carving ability and the speed needed to take aerials to new altitude. Loads ferociously, storing energy for explosive moves.

Cartwheels pops aerials are no problem and surfs unbelievably. Spec: MATERIAL - Polymer LENGTH - 6' 2" / 1.9 m WIDTH - 24.5" / 62.2 cm WEIGHT - 32 lbs / 14.5 kg COCKPIT - 31" x 16" / 78.7 x 40.6 cm VOLUME - 49 gal. / 185.5 L COLOUR - RED OVERVIEW: The Necky Vibe has several innovative features; first is the Blunt Box. The Blunt Box is essentially an anti-pearling device. It's like taking the first 1/8th of a creek boat and putting it on a playboat in some ways, but where the bow kick rocker of a creekboat is designed to bounce off rocks, the Blunt Box is designed to work with the rocker and edge to bounce off the troughs and green faces of a wave.

Imagine the following scenario: you are at the top of a huge wave, you lean forward to release the hull and start charging down the face of the wave. Suddenly, you lean forward just a bit too much, the bow initiates at hyper-velocity and you get slammed by the oncoming current and blown off the face. With the Blunt Box, you have a lot more room for error on forward leans, and that gives you a lot more room for error on stern leans as well. In short, you don't have to live in fear of getting embarrassing nasal cavity douchings because your bow initiated at the bottom of the wave for the hundredth time. Second is the egg-shaped cavity in the hull.

This is designed to have the effect of increasing the boundary layer off the hull and generating lift by decreasing the amount of pressure from the wave from shunting off to the sides - think parachute. - the Vibe bounces all over the place comparatively speaking. That makes it possible to catch much bigger air from bouncing, but also can make it a handful when it comes to try to get the boat to be obedient. WAVE PERFORMANCE: Imagine a bowl rocking slowly in different directions, now drop a marble into it. That's the best way to describe how the Vibe feels on a green wave.

It plummets down the face and shoulders, ricochets off the trough and keeps moving. Sometimes that means getting sucked back up the face of the wave, sometimes that means carving off somewhere else. For fairly inexperienced aerial boaters this is both frustrating and fun, but it clearly gives all the necessary tools to be an excellent aerial boat. The stern has a tendency to generate some suction when you lean back, and this is both a good thing and a bad thing. There are some obvious disadvantages to having the stern suck into the back of the wave - it decreases the carving edge, it can drag off the face of the wave, and so on, and so forth.

On the other hand, most aerial moves begin in this position where the stern is down and the boater forces the bow down to initiate the bounce for the move, so having the default position for surfing any wave look like this is actually a step in the right direction. It's especially handy when you don't have a lot of wave surface to carve across laterally. https://vimeo.com/83255045