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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Abha Shah

Oru Kayak review - does the folding Lake design sink or swim?

It is 9am on a Tuesday and I’m standing beside Paddington Basin in west London, looking skywards and hoping it doesn’t rain. In front of me is what I’ve come here for: a neat line of suitcase-sized parcels that will, unfeasibly, each transform into a single-seater kayak.

Oru Kayak is the latest entrant to the UK’s small foldable watercraft market; it’s a small place with fewer than a handful of other competitors, the closest being Razor Kayak.

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