
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.