ADVANCED ELEMENTS Rapid-Up Kayak Sail

Works great. I would change out the hooks for carabiners. Easy to paddle going into the wind with the sail up. Highly recommend.

I was intrigued by the idea of using a 'sail' with my kayak and bought this product to try it out. My impression is that the materials and manufacturing are good. The quality is good. I set it up on my Perception Rhythm 11' using the stock bungee cords that came mounted on the kayak. It was easy to clip and set up. A little harder to fold back down to get it out of the way. But the disappointment was that it did not seem to be enough sail to catch enough wind to move me much. I tried it multiple days in light to medium winds. I could tell that I was moving, but even with the strongest gusts it seem to barely move the kayak. I'm 200 pounds, so that's probably a factor, but I had hoped to be moved along at enough speed to make it worth putting the sail up. I didn't expect high speeds, but I expected to be able to notice I was moving.

Love this thing, use it at the beach all the time. Makes drifting back across the bay an absolute joy. Easy to store in boat and deploy.

The design is fine, but it should be larger. Wind does not hit enough of the products surface to actually help accelerate your speed in the water. I used mine on a lake and it was so so. Perhaps in open gusty waters it does better. It was worth a try.

first sail for kayak that works, Downwind only, and only with good breeze. It also folds up pretty easy if you can fold/ stow a car window sunshade, you can do this. Just start your journey upwind, when ready to go back turn around and deploy sail. use paddels to assist.

If you notice the demo video is on a lake in a really strong wind. This is because it only has a few square feet of sail area. I have tried to use it several times on rivers, and even on some open water in a moderate breeze. It is basically useless 95% of the time. Unfortunately my 30 day return window expired before I tried it. Don't make the same mistake. I improvised a sail using the two paddles of my tandem kayak and a poncho, and it worked much better. More sail area and higher up into the wind. You just jam each paddle blade on each side of your seat and hold them in a Y configuration with the other blade of each paddle in a sleeve of the poncho. Works great and more steerable too.

It won't work in light wind but will double your range if there is wind. easy setup and easy break down

I was excited to mount this on my kayak but was met with disappointment when I found that some of the plastic clasp were missing, all the nylon straps were there and fine but no attached clasp. The sail seems to be of great quality though

Das bestellte Segel sieht leider nicht sehr haltbar aus und musste deshalb zurück geschickt werden

I purchased this for my adult son who was about to take a solo canoe vacation of two weeks. He said it was a great investment, being easy to install, easy to control on the river, and a great effort saver on days with a good backwind! He was totally thrilled with its performance.

Works as expected once you get use to it

Tried to get this thing to catch the wind on my Kayak. Every time the wind came up it would catch this thing from the other side! Didn't matter how much you tried to angle the "sail" toward the wind it would always spin you around backwards. I suspect it has something to do with a person being directly in front of the sail. This thing does NOT work as advertised!

I found it difficult to keep the sail down when not needed. It is supposed to lie flat on the kayak deck when not needed but it slides sideways into the water. The plastic clips were too hard to open for me so I replaced them with metal carabiners