Lazy Daze Owners' Group

One thing I liked about my short time with a trailer was I could bring kayaks and bikes with the aid of a rack I built for our PU. I didn't want kayaks on the roof of our LD due to height issues and I didn't want one of those huge racks on the back that hold bikes and kayaks. Problem solved. This can be deflated , folded up and lashed to the roof right above the ladder and shouldn't stick up any higher than the AC and won't use up my very limited outside storage. This seems like a good kayak but if anyone has an inflatable and has a better suggestion for one I'm all ears or I guess eyes in this case.

Amazon.com : Advanced Elements AdvancedFrame Convertible Inflatable Kayak :...

This seems like a good kayak but if anyone has an inflatable and has a better suggestion for one I'm all ears or I guess eyes in this case.

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I suggest a test paddle before buying.
Inflatables sit high in the water and get pushed around badly by the wind. I have towed more than one inflatable kayak back to shore when the wind came up too strong for it to make headway.
The flexing of an inflatable burns a good deal of your paddling effort, reducing forward progress.
It depends on what you want to do with the boat. If floating around in a small lake or pond is your goal, an inflatable will do fine.
If you want to get on the water and go several miles, in varying conditions, a hard shell is a much better idea.
While there are decent, high-end folding kayaks, they cost several times what the Amazon kayak does and usually have folding frames, to provide ridgidity, a more efficient paddling style and better control.
If an inflatable is your choice, ask around, there are a lot of very lightly used inflatables around, hiding in closets and garages.
I have a rotted one in the garage, it was used only a few times.

Our two LDs have carried loaded, full-size kayaks for over twenty years without major problems.
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Larry

We own a Sea Eagle 2-person inflatable kayak, and it’s mostly a heavy lump that sits in a large bag. We’ve used it maybe five times in the ten years we’ve had it. It’s too big for any compartment in our TK, so we kept it on the floor while driving, and heaved  it into the passenger seat when parked. The paddles (which disassemble for storage) and the pump and paraphernalia did store in an outside compartment. This fairly quickly became a burden that outweighed the pleasures. I note that the model you’re interested in weighs 56 pounds. That’s a rather heavy and ungainly bundle to heft up the ladder onto the roof. Surely beyond my capabilities now. As for performance, Larry is correct, at least as far as the Sea Eagles go. They ride fairly high and present an unwelcome freeboard to any crosswinds. We always seemed to be trying to correct its course, at least at Morro Bay. The make you’re considering does seem to be a bit better designed for slicing through the water, and might have a bit more directional stability.  I also became disenchanted with the tedious process of blowing it up with the footpump, as well as the deflating, drying, and restuffing chores. That all said, we did have a few fun times in places as diverse as the Grand Tetons and the Okefenokee Swamp. You’ve never had a gulp moment like that when a fifteen foot gator swims towards your beam then slowly sinks to swim under your INFLATABLE kayak. In any event, I’d certainly recommend giving one a test spin before plunking down that sort of money. Or, you could buy ours. 😜 — Jon

To add to the excellent advice from others here: a lot depends upon what kind of paddling you want to do. My paddling style is mostly puttering around on lakes and streams. I've owned three kayaks: a rigid Eddyline Skylark, an inflatable Innova Twist 1, and an inflatable Alpacka Raft Yak.

The Skylark is a lovely boat, a "crossover" design with many of the handling virtues of a sea kayak, a little less speed, but more stability. But it weighs 41 pounds dry, and after a few years I found that carrying it to and from put-ins was killing my shoulders and other parts. (I know you can get folding wheels, but they're not practical in the rough terrain where I like to paddle.)

I bought the Innova Twist inflatable in hopes it would be easier to carry. At 16.3 pounds it should have been, but somehow it was still a heavy, clumsy-feeling load... and I found it very uncomfortable to sit in, with poor back support. I sold it after a few trials.

The Alpacka Raft Yak is a very different style of boat from the Skylark or even the Twist. It looks more like a life raft than a kayak. It's anything but sleek and fast, unlike the Skylark. It rides high in the water and is easily pushed around by winds. But... it weighs less than six pounds, and feels light as a feather when I'm carrying it. And its big round tubes make it supremely comfortable. I could lean back and drift all day in it. In short, it suits my easy, lazy paddling style. It's also a boat that one can hike or bike into the woods or mountains with.

My point is not to tell anybody to do what I did. It's just to say that what's right for you depends heavily upon what kind of paddling you like to do, and (at least in my case) how you will transport your boat to and from put-ins.