Folding boat

How trial and error led one couple to design and build their own very lightweight compact folding tender at a very reasonable price

A keen canoeist and inventor from Somerset has designed a portable kayak. The Stakanoo is made of three sections that slot together and can be stacked to fit into the back of a car or stored in a cupboard.

Very short presentation of the folding boat, with two pics and two videos to exemplify this somehow special kind of sailing, oaring or motor vessel.

ORIGO Foldable Boat - Men's Gear

Instaboat has added a second canoe to its portable, collapsible aluminium boat range. The USD$1500 Fisherman weighs just 38 kg but offers a 245 kg carrying capacity and folds to just 16 cm wide, 3.45 metres long and 38 cm deep in two minutes.

We don't own a boat. It's on the list of the things to do, but we're not quite ready to break out another thousand when we have friends for that. Where are you going to park it in a big metropolitan area? Who's going to take care of dry dock maintenance? Which side is port? |

Take apart and Folding boats can save storage space and can be easy to transport. Many designers have made boats that can be bolted together.

A keen canoeist and inventor from Somerset has designed a portable kayak. The Stakanoo is made of three sections that slot together and can be stacked to fit into the back of a car or stored in a cupboard.

Lots of people live in flats and don't have anywhere to store a normal kayak. It may be they don't have a car with roof racks either but they still want to go canoeing on a beautiful silvery river on a hot summer's day - as who does not? The folk at Tucktek have come