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    Posted: 02 Feb 22 at 12:58pm
Originally posted by 423zero

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Two-Person-Kayak-New-2-man-sit-on-top-kayak-with-seats-and-paddles-/115227591714?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0


Thanks for that. I spotted the 'Gul' logo and searched for reviews online. I had no idea they were in the plastic kayak game. Found the same thing for £350 or so at Gul's 'outlet'. Seems more like it! So I've ordered one.Only £6 for delivery too. Unfortunately a lot of reviews say Gul has gone downhill in terms of customer service having been taken over? The website doesn't make it clear whether paddles are included which is kind of a sign that whoever did the web page isn't a boating person. Ordred a cheap wetsuit whie I was at it.
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That's a good deal.
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Originally posted by eric_c


Unfortunately a lot of reviews say Gul has gone downhill in terms of customer service having been taken over? .


Gul sadly is no more, it's just used by is it Mike Ashley Sport Direct? Whatever, just badge marketing for cheap Chinese products, which doesn't really matter in the plastic goat boat market they're not real things in terms of performance, just leisure pastime items.

A sad end to a once good Brit Brand, ironic, I remember selling their wetsuits for £150 quid at the London Boat show in 1978-9 as we were switching Racing Sailboats over to London Windsurfing Centre.

So the wetsuit was 150 quid, a Laser was around 600 quid then and you can still buy a wetsuit for that sort of money, yet the Laser? Bringing us nicely back on topic.

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Since '78, the RPI has gone from 200 to 1200, but beer has gone from 30p a pint to about 4 quid? I don't know what my Dad earned in '78 but a new Laser was not something even contemplated.Only new boat in our family was a GRP kayak for my younger sister, which I think she still has. Doubt a LLPE hull will last 40 years somehow. Much as I dislike many features of the Laser, many people have attempted to build better boats for less money and produced things which are IMHO mostly worse. In the late 70s, wetsuits were still a luxury for many inland sailors, shorts and a 'waterproof' overall with a beer towel on the backside was the norm.
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Originally posted by 423zero

That's a good deal.
Depends what it looks like when it turns up perhaps? I've just splurged another £56 on a trolley and a cover, may need some paddles.... At least I can stop chasing secondhand rubbish now.
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I went and had a look, that small flying fish kayak looks OK for the kids 160 quid, seat and paddle.

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Stick to the subject. if you want to discus Kayaks do it somewhere else !!
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Sticking to the topic on Y&Y forums....yeah good luck with that
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Originally posted by Demelza

Stick to the subject. if you want to discus Kayaks do it somewhere else !!


The subject was dead and buried in about 4 posts, as soon as you suggested fake plaques. Be grateful people are still posting under the heading, so you might get someone new finding it.
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Found this scrabbling round my office looking for something else, Laser advert in Dinghy & Boardsailing June 1980, gone up a bit since 77 when I bought my first windsurfer for about £475 and I'm sure the Laser was about 650, but inflation back in the late seventys was rampant.


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