Jackson Kayak is leaping into the creek/slice market with the “Clutch.” This new whitewater kayak is designed to run steep creeks and massive water rivers with confidence whereas nonetheless permitting for all types of vertical enjoyable on the strict.
Jackson Kayak Clutch M/L Specs
- Size: 8’10”
- Width: 27.25″
- Quantity: 85 gal.
- Weight: 46 lbs.
- Paddler weight vary: 120-200 lbs.
- MSRP: $1,649
JK Clutch Kayak
The design of the Clutch is a spinoff of the Gnarvana creek-boat. It makes use of the boat’s high-volume and extremely rockered bow to maintain the paddler excessive and dry and encourage confidence with stable major stability. The high-volume bow additionally gives lots of foot and legroom, which interprets to a snug kayak for a variety of paddlers.
With that bow, the Clutch then makes use of an especially tapered, a lot decrease quantity, and a much less rockered stern. The first cause for this stern design is for vertical stern squirt enjoyable down any waterway. Secondary advantages are elevated downriver and on-wave pace.
Underneath the Clutch is a full planing hull with raised rails. It is a design you see on many Jackson Kayaks. Whereas not the quickest downriver, it does make the boat very forgiving, free on a wave, and gives nice secondary stability.
I’ll wager a guess that we’ll be seeing many paddlers utilizing the Clutch as their short-boat racing creek boat of alternative. It ought to give the arrogance to hit the onerous traces whereas additionally being significantly quicker than a regular creekboat — which normally has a comparatively excessive rocker and high-volume stern.
Creek/Slice Kayaks
I’ve little doubt that the Clutch is a direct response to the ever-popular Waka Steeze, and the latest inflow of boats within the creek/slice class. The Steeze pioneered the class all the way in which again in 2018, and it’s nonetheless accessible new at the moment. The remainder of the business has adopted, however solely only recently, with the Liquid Logic Candy Journey, Dagger Indra and Soul Tremendous-Skipper RR as prime examples.
JK Clutch Kayak Pricing & Availability
The Clutch will retail for $1,649. That’s about $50 greater than comparable boats within the JK whitewater lineup and opponents within the house. Pricing on whitewater kayaks hasn’t gone up all that a lot in a couple of many years, whereas supplies and manufacturing prices have skyrocketed, so a small worth bump on all new boats popping out isn’t a shock.
Jackson Kayak advised us that boats will begin to ship from its Tennessee manufacturing unit in about 2 weeks, so they are going to be in sellers around the globe quickly after.
Whereas I requested, nobody at Jackson Kayak would touch upon some other sizes coming, so the M/L is the one dimension suits most in the meanwhile.
Jackson Kayak Guarantee
Should you have been questioning what the guarantee on the Clutch and all Jackson Kayak boats, right here it’s:
- 1st 12 months of guarantee: Change or restore the kayak free of charge, with free delivery.
- 2nd 12 months of guarantee: Change it with full construct at 70% off retail plus delivery.
- third 12 months of guarantee: Change it with full construct at 50% of MSRP plus delivery.