Kayak color

[bobboy]

Hi every one, I Am newbie.

 

I am looking to getting a prowler 13 and thought about colour.

My reasons are:-

Green = I just don’t like it.

Yellow = on a sunny day may suffer with a bit of glare.

Red = First colour to disappear in water and make me invisible.

 

I will be doing most of my fishing in and around Dale, Pemb’s as we have a holiday home there so I know a few good rock marks. If anyone knows any good marks around that area I would be grateful.

 

 

Thankyou.

[s2vto]

Hi every one, I Am newbie.

 

I am looking to getting a prowler 13 and thought about colour.

My reasons are:-

Green = I just don’t like it.

Yellow = on a sunny day may suffer with a bit of glare.

Red = First colour to disappear in water and make me invisible.

 

I will be doing most of my fishing in and around Dale, Pemb’s as we have a holiday home there so I know a few good rock marks. If anyone knows any good marks around that area I would be grateful.

 

 

Thankyou.

 

Yellow, no glare and the best colour

 

orange and yellow mixed is cool too!

 

Few of us fish Pembokeshire

[paintfly]

Yellow, no glare and the best colour

 

orange and yellow mixed is cool too!

 

Few of us fish Pembokeshire

Agree yellow is the most visible, but fairly common. There's a really bright lime green as well, which looks great and would be my second choice.

[codshead]

Several years ago I was involved with some colour tests at sea , i.e. what colour was the most visible in a rescue scenario, on the surface, and orange won hands down, thats why my yaks orange, you'll find a lot of working vessels have the roof of the wheelhouse painted orange, plus a lot of floatation suits have orange patches too (I know some are bright yellow), some of my friends still in the marine industry wear orange overalls when at work. I not saying that orange is the H.S.E's choice cos I don't know what the regs are now , as they change all the time, but orange did come out tops at the time of testing.

[SpeciMan]

If your kayak colour is not that visible advise wearing a brightly coloured buoyancy aid - bright paddle blades will help too. Richi wears a high vis yellow vest and was very visible when I was fishing about 1/2 a mile away from him in Portland last month. I felt very vulnerable in my previous kayak, an olive green Caper when speedboats, yachts & jetskis were in the area.

Edited February 25, 2007 by SpeciMan

[SpeciMan]

Works both ways though --- I sometimes think that being very visible on the water can be like a red flag to a bull with some boaters. Have had some boaters spot me and turn full speed in my direction only to pull away in the closing yards.

[s2vto]

There are some idiots out on boats

 

Most people slow down or move away from you

 

I have only had one scary moment when I was out with GB, this £25k + was flying towards us and it was very shallow water (6ft), dont think he had a clue. It was also pretty dark

 

Kayakers should be seen and not heard, Safe paddling

[Marc J]

Blue of course - then the fish can't see you!!

[Transporter]

Blue of course - then the fish can't see you!!

After hearing about idiots in speed boats ect blue will be the last colour i'll pick, my life is more important than catching a fish.

[jonnyboy]

green is unlucky on the water, i was really surprised when i saw that there was a green kayak available. i was most surprised.

 

Dont get yellow, everyone has a yellow one. Nice mango flame or sunrise flame, nice and visible from the air too