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Since we introduced our first recreational kayak designs, the Pinguino series, they have become our best selling kayak kits. The Pinguino design is a great choice for paddlers who want the quickness, lightweight, and joy of paddling a Pygmy, but prefer a roomier cockpit, and high initial stability. The larger cockpits and greater stability make it a perfect choice for fishing, photography, bird watching, a relaxing day on the water or even light touring.

 

           

 

*Initial

Carrying

Capacity

**Std

Cruising

Loaded

Waterline

***Top

Cruising

Kit
 
MODEL
LOA
Beam
Height
Weight
Cockpit
Stablility
(vol.cu.ft)
Speed
Length
Speed
Price
Plans
Pinguino Pro kayak kit
15'
23.7"
11.6"
35 lb
15.8”x33”
11.7
11.80
17.40
13.0
5.11
$1229
NA
Pinguino Sport Kayak
13'
25.5"
13"
34 lb
19"x36"
13.4
12.80
16.70
11.3
4.66
$1129
NA
Pinguino Recrational Wood Kayak
14.5"
25.5"

13"

36 lb

19"x36"
13.60
14.10
17.50
12.50
4.91
$1189
NA
Pinguino recreational wood sea kayak
14.5"
25.5"

11.5"

36 lb

17"x33"
13.60
12.30
17.50
12.50
4.91
$1199
NA

Note: The Pinguino Sport and Pinguino 145 are also available with a smaller cockpit (17"x33").

To read more about each kayak, click on the actual boat or boat name.

 

3 Sisters Build Pinguino Sports:

 

 

KAYAK KIT Includes: Precision pre-cut BS-1088 Okoume plywood panels(4mm), cockpit coamings, System Three epoxy, measuring pumps, 38" wide fiberglass cloth (6 oz., specially treated for use with epoxy resin) for inside and outside of hull, 1.5" fiberglass tape, wire, squeegee, dental syringes, vinyl gloves, wood flour, stirring sticks, steel push pins, 2-part slung-back rest with a Therm-a-Rest seat pad, Keepers adjustable footbraces, pre-cut temporary frames to aid and ease construction, fully illustrated construction manual.

 

*Initial Stability: The transverse Metacenter, in inches, is a measure of a kayak's initial stability. A higher number is more stable. All single kayaks computed with same weight person.


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Efficient cruising is a function of low frictional drag and low wetted surface (WS). Lower WS means a faster (less effort) cruising speed, here expressed in sq. ft. For example, the shorter Arctic Tern 14 cruises with less effort than the longer AT-17 until the AT-14 reaches 4.91mph.


***Top Cruising Speed (TCS) is determined by loaded waterline length (LWL). A longer LWL gives a faster TCS. At approximately 90% of its hull speed (when a kayak starts to produce a bow wake longer than its LWL) the effort required to continue accelerating radically increases. In general longer kayaks have higher top speeds and short kayaks have more efficient cruising speeds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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