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Sea Kayaking at Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, AustraliaKayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water. Kayaking is differentiated from canoeing by the fact that a kayak has a closed cockpit and a canoe has an open cockpit. They also use a two bladed paddle. Another major difference is in the way the paddler sits in the boat. Kayakers sit in a seat on the bottom of the boat with their legs extended out in front of them. Canoeists will either sit on an elevated bench seat or kneel directly on the bottom of the boat.
Whitewater kayaking involves taking a kayak down rapids. Sea kayaking sometimes also referred to as Ocean Kayaking involves taking kayaks out on to the ocean or other open water i.e a lake. Sea kayaking can involve short paddles with a return to the starting point or "put-in" or expeditions covering many miles and days. Kayaking of all kinds has continued to increase in general popularity through the 1990s and early 21st century.
Kayaks are classified by their intended use. There are five primary classifications: whitewater, surf, touring/expedition, light touring/day tripping and general recreation. From these primary classifications stem many sub-classes. For example, a fishing kayak is simply a general recreation kayak outfitted with features and accessories that make it an easier kayak to fish from. Also within these classifications are many levels of performance which further separate the individual models. In other words, not all touring kayaks handle the same.
There are two major configurations of kayaks - "sit on tops" which as the name suggests involves sitting on top of the kayak in an open area and "cockpit style" which involves sitting with the legs and hips inside the kayak hull and a "spray skirt" that creates a watertight barrier around the waist. Whether a kayak is a sit-on-top or a cockpit style has nothing to do with which classification it falls under. Both configurations are represented in each of the five primary classifications. While most kayaks are designed to be paddled by a single person, other configurations include tandem and even triple cockpit boats.
See also
Canoe Polo
Kayak
Canoeing
Whitewater Kayaking
Surf Kayaking
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Using the Kayak Travel Search Engine
Kayak is a travel search and booking engine. Unlike Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbitz — where several of its top execs hail from — the Kayak site does not sell travel directly.
How Kayak Works
When you request information about a flight or hotel, Kayak searches more than 100 major airline, hotel, and travel sites. From those it can access prices and itineraries on more than 550 airlines and 85,000 hotels — and then Kayak gives users the options of booking directly from the travel supplier of their choice by clicking on a supplier's direct URL, calling the travel provider's tollfree phone number, or booking via Orbitz or Onetravel.com.
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Kayak co-founder and CEO Steve Hafner says, “We created the site to meet the needs of today’s consumers who are frustrated at having to search multiple sites to find the best deal.
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"Kayak.com’s reach is so comprehensive that consumers will often find an itinerary on Kayak.com that they may not have found on their own. Not only does Kayak.com provide consumers with more travel options than any other site, but it also gives consumers the freedom to choose where to buy their travel."
Kayak Launch
Since its beta launch on October 7, 2004, Kayak has added content, features, and distribution partners. Launched to consumers in February 7, 2005, Kayak has a bare-bones interface and produces search results fairly quickly. Searches can be filtered by airports, airlines, and number of stops.
When Kayak is fully operational, it will enable users to post and view ratings from other travel sources including Frommer’s and Fodor’s. "Our website will continue to expand functionality, such as multi-city and one-way itineraries, passenger and cabin-type fares, and new personalization features," said Paul English, Kayak CTO and co-founder.
Ultimately Kayak will remember consumers' preferences for airlines, fares, hotel star ratings, and hotel locations so Kayak returns will display searches based on automatically customized criteria.
Searching Kayak
See how Kayak works by searching for a hotel or a flight.
First Look at Kayak
The early version of Kayak, with its clear and simple interface, resembles Orbitz. Like Orbitz, Expedia, and Travelocity, it is not as comprehensive as all users might like. For instance, it seems to favor major airlines and does not return searches on all low-cost airlines, such as Southwest. Jet Blue flights, however, are accessible through Kayak.
One test click-through from Kayak to Onetravel.com yielded prices that were lower on Onetravel than those returned on the Kayak search. That makes this reviewer believe it will still be necessary to search more than one site to find the best price.
Destination information on Kayak currently seems heavily dependent on content from IgoUgo and The New York Times travel section. At the risk of sounding prejudiced, your reviewer believes that by not including content from About.com Travel, which has more wide-ranging and up-to-date travel content than any place online, users are deprived of a valuable Web travel resource.
Since Kayak is still new, we'll keep watching its progress and report back as the site develops.
Kayak Affiliates
Kayak.com's affiliate program is targeted at providing travel search functionality to websites with more than one million visitors a month. Kayak launched its affiliate network with America Online and recently added USAtoday.com, which will host Kayak's co-branded travel price comparison tool.
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