“CALLING ALL ADVENTURERS: EXPEDITION-RATED KAYAK KNOWS NO FEAR ” Built for Raging Whitewater or Open-Water Wilderness Touring. Are you a true adventurer? If your idea of a perfect weekend means harrowing treks and trips that make others blanch you definitely qualify. Explorer Kayaks Can: Rocket fearlessly down Class IV rapids Traverse miles of wilderness rivers to spend weeks at primitive campsites Fly fish remote trout streams other fishermen can t get to Carry easily on a small plane to impossibly obscure fishing or camping sites Why are Sea Eagle Explorers the top choice of Wilderness Adventures? On-the-fly flexibility: handles wet OR dry conditions with ease What do you do when the placid river you re kayaking becomes a free-for-all of rapids? If you re in an ordinary dry-only kayak with no drains you must either portage your craft or get ready to sit in several inches of cold water. Similarly a common wet-only kayak s permanently open drains let water in even in dead-calm water. The Sea Eagle Explorer Kayak is ready for wet OR dry conditions with four extra-large easily convertible drains. Drains OPEN the craft bails itself in rough whitewater conditions. Drains CLOSED they don t let a drop of water in so you and your cargo stay comfortably dry in calm water. And worst case even filled to the gunwales with water the Explorer Kayak still floats. Double-Floor Protection The Sea Eagle Explorer Kayak is as tough as nails and as rugged as the men and women who choose it. Stem to stern it s constructed of tough 1 000 denier polyester-supported high-pressure fabric with quadruple-thickness electronic-welded seams. How tough is the Explorer Kayak? In torture testing we pounded it mercilessly with the claw of a claw hammer. It had no effect. Neither did stabbing it with a screwdriver. We simply couldn t penetrate the crocodile hide hull. Material you can hit with a hammer Would you hit an inflatable boat with a claw hammer? We hit the hull 1000 denier hull material in our Sea Eagle boats with a claw hammer …. with the sharp claw end. The Sea Eagle reinforced hull material can take this incredible pounding … so you don t need to sweat bumping into the dock now and then. The toughest off-road vehicles have skid plate protection underneath; In the same way the Explorer Kayak has two separate floors for double protection where you most need it: An outside supe