Full House

Looking at modern whitewater kayaks, one thing stands out above all: increasingly extreme rocker. Spade also wanted to develop a boat that keeps you on top of the water, rather than struggling through features. The problem: the greater the rocker, the slower and more unstable the kayak. The equation “length matters” doesn’t refer to the overall dimensions of the kayak, but to its waterline. And that gets shorter when the rocker starts early. To achieve a balanced combination of speed, maneuverability, and rocker, Spade stretched the Full-House to a length of 284 cm. That sounds like a lot, but it corresponds to the waterline of a significantly shorter boat with less rocker. The result is a kayak that lets you effortlessly ride curlers and waves, achieving astonishing speeds in whitewater.