Sevylor Tahiti is most everyone's first IK, tho they're coloured
yellow and the one in the photo wasn't, as I recall. It was my first,
too. Mostly I was on my Sea Eagle 380SX later on. I had it all over,
in the Atlantic off the coasts of Brooklyn and Long Island, in the LI
Sound, in lakes and ponds and rivers. Yes, the weak point of IK's is
the wind, but I lived in an apartment so I could easily store and
transport my boat. I even used to put it into my backpack, and tump
line it through the woods to nice lakes all my own, like Rotten Pond
in NJ. I remember one time breaking through the ice to get it into
the middle of that lake. They have some nicer lighter more rigid IK's
now, in case I ever get another one.

I like canoing even better than kayaking. My favorite book is an
account by these two guys who, in the depths of the depression in the
1930's, quit their jobs and bought a cheap beat up 2nd hand canoe and
tossed it in the Hudson River at 42nd Street, and paddled it all the
way up to Nome, Alaska - the longest canoe journey on record. *NY to
Nome* is the name of the book, I think.