Water sports have a ridiculously high barrier of entry. Unlike hiking, snowshoeing, or cycling—where you really just need one or two specific pieces of gear and then you're good to go—there's a lot of gear involved in any water sport like kayaking, rafting, or stand-up paddleboarding. And that gear is expensive. And heavy. And takes up a lot of space. Space that your 300-sq-ft downtown apartment doesn't have.
For the past eight years, San Francisco-Based Oru Kayak has been developing watercraft to eliminate the most common barriers to kayak ownership—storage and transport. And this month they’ve released an impressive update to their original origami-inspired design, the Oru Kayak Beach LT—a kayak we've spent many hours in, enjoying every moment of it.