California Canoe and Kayak were hand delivered their boats to the Sacramento store with Demany and Jeff taking delivery yesterday. It has been one of my favorite things to hand deliver boats so far. I like seeing the reaction by the store managers and staff when they see the boats for the first time. Demany called a customer who preordered his son, Raven, (turning six years old very soon, he says) a new Fun 1. Raven is a single child getting lots of attention from mom and dad and is quite well spoken and familiar with kayaking. Dane and Raven hung out a little bit and it was fun hearing their conversation. Raven has a pool at home which will really give him an opportunity to learn to paddle in a comfortable environment.

Next to CCK's store is a bike shop and I borrowed a fish scale from them to weigh all of the boats that they have in stock. Jeff and I pulled one boat after another off their shelf and hung the from the scale to compare advertised weights to actual weights, and actual weights to Jackson Kayak weights. Interesting stuff:

Some statistics:

Without naming names here were some examples of advertised and actual weights:

So far here are the Jackson Kayak weights

Anyway- Good stuff- We just need to get the rest of the boats out in the next couple of weeks so more than the little people can enjoy them!

EJ