Swift Pack 12.6

Swift Pack 12.6

Pack boats are an incredibly popular and growing section of the North American paddlesport community. The hulls are based on canoe designs, yet instead of a traditional webbed seat for kneeling. Pack boats are fitted with a specially designed sit-down kayak seat, and paddled with double-ended kayak style paddles. Why paddle a pack boat as opposed to a traditional canoe or kayak? The Pack boat offers somewhere in between the two. Without a top deck a Pack boat has much less material in the build than a kayak, so reduces the weight considerably. Apart from weight reduction, the pack boats are much easier to entry/exit than a traditional closed cockpit kayak. And the low sit-down seating position, reducing the paddlers centre of gravity making a Pack boat very stable. Some people will also find sitting down with good back support a more comfortable experience than kneeling while on a traditional webbed canoe seat. Using a double ended kayak paddle is also more efficient than a single bladed canoe paddle, more effective in windy conditions and perhaps easier to master for solo paddlers.

Key Features

• Carbon Kevalr trim (gunwales) as standard
• Built-In buoyancy chambers at either end.
• Bow and stern cherry handles.
• Carbon Pack Seat
• High Back Seat with Lumbar Support
• Kayak Footbraces
• Two-tone colour scheme.

Dimensions

Pack 12.6 14

• Length: 12' 6"
• Gunwale Width: 23.5"
• Maximum Width: 28"
• Centre Depth: 11"
• Bow Rocker: 2"
• Stern Rocker: 1"
• Weight of a fitted-out Pack 12.6 in Kevlar Fusion with Carbon/Kevlar Gunnels: 24lbs/10.9kg
• Optimum Load Range: 54kg-117KG (120 - 260 lbs)