Bent Yak - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

GkT · 04-11-2015, 03:57 PM

So my parents have an Ocean Kayak Malibu 2xl that they got from a friend, my dad build a little portage cart out of an old dolly. Thing is, they stashed it and stacked a bunch of stuff on it (200# of carpet

) and now it has a big bend in the keel(?) bottom just forward of the center hatch, from where it sat on the dolly. i rolled the thing on its side and gave it a few good kicks thru the center hatch, to see if it'd pop back into shape but it seems pretty solid.

is there a way to bend or pop it back out, or is it stuck, and is this gonna change drastically the way the boat acts on the water?

04-11-2015, 03:57 PM	#1
GkT Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Posts: 42	Bent Yak So my parents have an Ocean Kayak Malibu 2xl that they got from a friend, my dad build a little portage cart out of an old dolly. Thing is, they stashed it and stacked a bunch of stuff on it (200# of carpet ) and now it has a big bend in the keel(?) bottom just forward of the center hatch, from where it sat on the dolly. i rolled the thing on its side and gave it a few good kicks thru the center hatch, to see if it'd pop back into shape but it seems pretty solid. is there a way to bend or pop it back out, or is it stuck, and is this gonna change drastically the way the boat acts on the water? Last edited by GkT; 04-11-2015 at 04:02 PM.