Folding Kayaks
I often lingered over the Folbot advertisements in Popular Mechanics offering marvelous folding kayaks that could be had at attractive prices - prices that were still unfortunately beyond the means of an 8 year old. Six years later, while on a canoe trip to Isle Royale, I met up with a fellow carrying a pair of tweedy canvas duffle bags out of which he assembled an elegant Klepper folding kayak. I watched him paddle off on a week's wilderness trip, thinking I'd like to do the same one day.