Pyranha Shiva Review with Robert Peerson and Chris Roberts Pyranha likes to cut to the chase, and build boats that perform. They always have, and always will. The Shiva follows in the foot steps of true Pyranha heritage. It’s a nimble, fast, large volume, rounded hull creeker, built to run the steepest and hardest whitewater [...] [...more]
Liquid Logic Remix XP9 vs. The Pyranha Fusion Kayak Review Pyranha Fusion A few pro’s about the fusion: Had great speed down river and in the flat water alike, the stern had great volume allowing for maximum gear storage. The fusion handled really well maneuvering quickly and responsively to what I needed it to do. [...] [...more]
CKS Reviews The Pyranha Varun The Pyranha Varun is a great addition to the free runner category here at CKS. It’s a super solid boat that does lots of things well. It’s lineage comes from the Molan, which means that it has just as many similarities with a high end play boat, as it does [...] [...more]
Ten years ago it was one size fits all and one style fits all paddling disciplines. Your creek boat was your playboat and your river-running boat. Today there are more boat choices than most of us know what to do with. There are boats for river-running, playboating, creeking, expeditions, for beginners, intermediates and advanced paddlers [...] [...more]
Peru 2010: First Descent of the Huallaga. Trip Report, Part 2 The next morning, after a quality cream of wheat breakfast (aka prison food), we began packing our Tupperwear containers. Most of us still had 12 days of food to cram back in, except for the lucky person who won the Rock Scissors Paper battle [...] [...more]
Pyranha Molan Review With Nicole Mansfield Well, after a season of using the new Pyranha Molan, I am still as stoked on it as I was the first day. The Molan has proven itself to be an incredible playboat. I’ve used it river running, surfing both big and little waves, and playboating in holes and [...] [...more]
The 2011 Pyranha Varun Whitewater Kayak Review It’s about that time of year when we all start to anticipate the arrival of next years kayaks. 2011 is on it’s way. One of the highlights for the up and coming season will for sure be Pyranha’s new free runner, The Varun (which means The God of [...] [...more]
Matthew Klema Reviews The Pyranha Karnali Introduction: Pyranha has had a history of putting out great aggressive planning hull designs in their creek boats in the last decade. The H2 and H3 and the Burn family that sprung from that lineage dominated their designs. I was skeptical when they brought out the Karnali as a [...] [...more]
Pyranha Fusion River Touring Kayak Review We decided to add a pair of Pyranha Fusions to our family of kayaks this spring. Kyle and I had our test run in Arizona down Eagle Creek into the Gila River for a 2 night self support kayak trip. It was a class III+ run with some class [...] [...more]
2010 Pyranha Burn Review This is a quick and dirty review from someone who had the chance to paddle the new 2010 Pyranha Burn a few times this winter. Here ‘ya go: I took the new Burn out a couple times last week. I was pretty surprised for such subtle differences, how different of a [...] [...more]