Blunt Kayaks: Fluid's Solo White Water Kayaks

Fluid: Solo

Blunt Kayaks now supplies the Fluid Kayaks range. The Solo is Fluid's Creek Boat. It is a high performance creekboat, available in 2 sizes and a expedition version.

Fluid offers you some of the most advanced kayaks on the planet; with pure functional design blended with pleasing aesthetics, to give the taste of unlimited fun.

Fluid prides itself on its attention to detail and stringent quality control, from the raw material supply to final detail.

The Solo is a creek boat. You like to run the steeps. You do it in the company of friends you can trust. You scout the lines, set up safety. But when you get in your boat, leave the eddy to aim for the horizon line, you're really going Solo.

The Solo has been tested over a year period by various team paddlers (and also some novices and intermediates) on 3 continents and one island (New Zealand). The Solo prototypes have been put through their paces on everything from super low volume runs and rock slides to big volume creeks, steep and continuous runs, a variety of waterfalls, overnight trips and full-on expeditions. Name the application for a creekboat and we've tested it there. When all the testing was done, the Solos went through 5 distinct prototype stages. The final product is a testimony to the brilliant feedback received, especially from Joe Stumpfel.



Small Solo	Large Solo	Hatch Solo

The Solo features semi displacement hulls, with soft enough rails to keep even the most conservative paddler happy. They turn on a dime, carve like demons and boof on command. Responsiveness and speed is what they're made for. The rocker profile assist in stability when landing drops, and keeps you going where most boats will stall and backender. The decks are slightly peaked for controllable resurfacing without loosing speed. The perfectly distributed volume keeps you on top of the funny water, making class 5 creeks safer and more fun.

The Solo

The Solo: small

Length: 222 cm
Width: 64 cm
Volume: 245 litres
Weight: 18 kg
Cockpit size: 49 x 87 cm
Paddler weight : 45-105 kg

Price: $1695 inc GST

The Small Solo is particularly suitable for smaller paddlers as an allround creekboat, and for bigger paddlers as a low volume creekboat.


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The Solo: Large

Length: 245 cm
Width: 65 cm
Volume: 280 litres
Weight: 19 kg
Cockpit size: 49 x 87 cm
Paddler weight : 65-125 kg

Price: $1695 inc GST

The Large Solo is in it's element on big volume steep stuff, and bigger paddlers will take this boat anywhere.


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The Solo: Hatch (Expedition)

Length: 245 cm
Width: 65 cm
Volume: 280 litres
Weight: 19 kg
Cockpit size: 49 x 87 cm
Paddler weight : 65-125 kg
hatchsize: 32 x 40 cm

Price: $1695 inc GST

The Large Solo Expedition model is exactly the same boat as the standard Large Solo, with the exception of a hatch compartment in the stern. The Expedition model has been tested thoroughly on the 2004 Maranon Expedition in Peru by some Fluid team paddlers.


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Solo Outfitting

The outfitting is like all things Fluid: simple to use, effective, lightweight. No gimmicks.

The stern deck of the Large Solo Expedition is sligthly modified to accomodate the hatch cover and foam bulkhead. The hatch opening is rather large to make packing easier. It has a cockpit type rim that fits a neoprene cover. The neoprene cover is protected by a plastic cover, which is held in place by two bungee cords. The bungee cord system is easy to use, robust, almost impossible to undo by accident, and simple to fix if the worst happens somewhere between nothing and nowhere. The stern is sealed off with a 50 mm foam bulkhead, keeping your gear dry inside and at the same time producing a huge boyancy compartment.

The Fluid Kayak Range




Small Flirt	Medium Flirt	Large Flirt	Medium Spice	Large Spice	Small Solo	Large Solo	Hatch Solo

	Leisure Kayaks
	If you are after either a leisure kayak check out the Vaya and the Synergy

For further information and assistance please contact
Blunt Kayaks
blunt@kayaks.com.au
61 3 9421 0427